Foss & Ferrandini: A Fruitful Friendship
On View: January 4 - 26, 2019
Reception: Friday, January 4, 6 - 8 PM
Jeremy Foss taught painting at Massachusetts College of Art and Design during the 1970s and 80s. It was during the 70s, while Robert Ferrandini was a student at Mass Art, that he and Foss formed a friendship that has lasted to this day. Ferrandini entered MassArt interested in drawing but after taking Foss’ painting classes his sophmore year, he emerged as a painter. He greatly respected Foss’ instruction, especially his color sense. Ferrandini, although just a kid, was a spectacular blues guitarist. Foss remembers fondly going to hear Ferrandini play a gig at some dive bar at the time. Over the years the two have stayed in close touch talking about life, music, and, of course, painting.
Robert Ferrandini has steadily been painting since his 2001 stroke, which rendered his painting hand unresponsive and challenged him to train his left hand. Continuing to develop his deftness with the medium of watercolor, which he uses as if it were oil paint, he layers and builds up the surface and is able to achieve a lightness that is not typical with this medium.
Robert Ferrandini
Robert Ferrandini is one of the most admired painters working in New England. For over twenty-five years he has been celebrated for his haunted and glorious landscapes, which incorporate imagery culled from art history, film, literature, and popular culture. In both urban and bucolic settings, Ferrandini has made work that communicates a prophetic foreboding while simultaneously concocting voluptuous conceits that contend with masters in the history of landscape painting.
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