Jerry Di Falco

About

Visual Artist (Painting, Printmaking, Mixed Media); Folklorist; Poet/Performance Artist; and, Independent Curator. Di Falco received the City of Philadelphia's Award in Arts and Culture for 2009 for using his own art and curatorial skills over the past twenty years to build bridges and to open lines of communication between diverse groups of people. The artist's other accolades include: 1) a Grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (NYC, NY) in 2002 ($30,000) for his paintings and mixed media installations; 2) a 1992 Fellowship Grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (Painting); 3) an Artist's Residency at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (printmaking and painting, 2002-2003); and, 4) an Artists In Education Grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (1987). His biographical profiles appear in WHO'S WHO IN THE WORLD and WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, & 2010 editions). Gerard's main visual concerns include: experimentation with explosive uses and combinations of color; the radicalization of visual design through new uses of line, form-juxtaposition, and optical geometry; the abstraction of visual concepts in art via the use of scientific methods; and the creation of both narrative and non-narrative (abstract) illusions (what he calls "Visual Wisdoms"). Di Falco's inspirations and interests include ancient history/art; symbolism,; texture as a two-dimensional force; mythology; spirituality and its relationship to current and past culture; sacred geometry; art of the middle ages; and, the study of sacred texts. … Read More

Location: Philadelphia, PA, United States
Website: http://www.absolutearts.com/gerarddifalco/

Work

Di Falco's paintings, prints (etchings, monoprints, woodcuts, serigraphs), assemblages, installations, and photographs have been exhibited in over 300 solo, juried-group, and invitation-group shows across the US, Latin America and Europe since 1980. He is represented in public and private collections in (partial list): Amsterdam, Baltimore, Barcelona, Berlin, Chicago, Denver, Glasgow, Havana (Cuba), Honolulu, Florence (Italy), Little Rock, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Miami Beach/Miami, Nashville, New Orleans, New York City, Newport (RI), Paris, Philadelphia (and the Delaware Valley), Portland, Quebec, Richmond (VA), San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Taos, Toronto, Utrecht, Washington DC. Gerard has had solo shows at Nexus Gallery in Philadelphia in 1985 (PAINTINGS & INSTALLATION), 1986 (Art Golf: The Impossible Game to Play - An Installation and Miniature Golf Course with Nine Holes, each Related to the Art World.), 1987 (Societal Genres- Paintings), 1989 MATTER, ANTI MATTER, DOESN'T MATTER), and 1992 (THE MADRID PAINTINGS). His two solo shows at the Leonardo DaVinci Art Alliance in Philadelphia were in 2000 and 2007 and featured paintings and installations, including RELICS. A retrospective of his art at the University of Pennsylvania's Kelly Writer's House Art Gallery (Philadelphia, 2003) featured his narrative paintings from 1988 to 2000. Di Falco's solo show at Holy Family College (Philadelphia, PA, US) in 2007 featured his liturgical works and included his first STATIONS OF THE CROSS series. His full exhibition resume can be seen on-line at the listed web site (www.absolutearts.com/gerarddifalco/). , … Read More

Education

Di Falco received his BA from Rutgers University (NJ, US) in Fine Visual Art, with a concentration in sculpture. There, he studied with John Giannotti. Gerard earned a Master's of Science degree in 1985 from Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA, US) in curatorial science; his thesis involved a solo exhibition of his own works at Nexus Gallery in 1985, as well as curating two group exhibitions from School 33 Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland (near Washington DC) and Nexus in Philadelphia. DiFalco has taught at Rutgers University and Drexel University and has lectured at several colleges and universities in the United States., … Read More