Robert Ferrandini: New Paintings on Paper

October 12—November 3 at Gallery NAGA

Painter Robert Ferrandini continues his remarkable comeback from career-threatening injury with a major exhibition of new work, the largest to be mounted since his 2001 stroke.

Robert Ferrandini: New Paintings on Paper runs from October 12 through November 3.  A reception for the artist and the public will be held at the gallery on Friday, October 12 from 6 to 8 pm.

The show includes fifteen works, unpopulated invented landscapes and seascapes suffused with broad ranges of color, exuberant mark making, and a rapturous glorying in visual phenomena.

Writing in the current issue of Art New England, critic Alicia Faxon remarks, “These are all works made since Ferrandini’s catastrophic stroke in October 2001.  Deprived of the use of his right hand and arm, the artist continued drawing and painting with his left.  The results in this exhibition are sophisticated, brilliant, and magical.  It is as if the switch to the left released the dreamer and visionary the artist has become.  The paintings testify to struggle, perseverance, and mastery.”

Speaking in the gallery, Ferrandini accepted the characterization of his left-hand work as a fraternal twin of his previous work: the same DNA, a continuity of consciousness, but enacted and manifested differently.  “I know it isn’t as turbulent as it has been,” he said, “but it’s always been about splendor.”