About The Artist
My current series on Fragmentation
Fragmentation, some thoughts: Fragmentation of memory is the process of random loss of bits and pieces of a previously harmonic work of art, ideas or value systems. Where the loss occurs the process of reading, reciting or retailing of a story, tale or poem relies on intuitive reordering. Indeed, each letter, phrase or paragraph are fragments, one of the other. In this reconstruction, a mere paragraph creatively a retelling, a creative understanding of what the work might be.
As one or more letters from a word or phrase, the meaning of the original begins to collapse, to lose its once-intended identity nuance and purpose. What is left behind may be only silence, emptiness and space.
So I am challenged by Sappho, the archaic Greek lyric poet, whose "Fragment” poems are so much left to the imagination.
The purpose of my work is to intuit that which is lost - the spaces, the missing words, the intention, and to conjure from the void as a starting point of new cycle of life and meaning.
My work
I am inspired by materials--items that seem to have lost their purpose and identity. In fact, I believe that materials have their own journeys, moving from one place to another. At each step, they lose something in their passage as they seem to be falling apart, then gaining as I sit at the back of a church or a synagogue, hand stitching many of the rips and “sores” in the material into a canvas for my work.
For me, this is especially true for jute sacks, and the memory of what was “inside” and “outside.” They speak to me, forcing me to question renewal, value, migration, globalization, and economic exchange. The sacks that I gather from farmers markets and take new life as part of my artwork conjure many memories and become the signifiers of exploitation and abuse as well as beauty and the creative force.
As I weave plaster, crushed pearls, resins and precious metals into them, the sacks are transformed with new life. Architecture, entropy and socio-dichotomies are “built” together as light, shadows and an infinity of scintillations emerge to unveil a new language and expression.
My past
As an eight-year-old boy, I remember vividly my grandfather taking me by the hand to the Gold Museum in Bogotá, Colombia. It was the most incredible thing I had ever seen. How I remember the sparks, the glitter and reflection. How magical!
I remember to this day when we sat in a dark circular room in the museum. I was holding my grandfather's hand tightly. Suddenly, the light in the room started coming on, second by second, and everything started sparkling, glittering, shining!
I was startled by what I had just experienced: It was a visceral reaction of fear, visual feast, and magic! When all the lights were fully on, I felt as if was inside the sun. That memory is the seed of my work, the nugget of my creative endeavors.
Later as an immigrant, with many “dents” and setbacks along the way, I held on to that “golden light.” This spark led me to study art and architecture and develop a practice that allows me to see the light in a simple jute sack.
EDUCATION
2006 Master of Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, Rhode Island
1998 Bachelor of Architecture, New York Institute of Technology
SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
200 East 57th Street Corp.
Gourmet Advisory, New York City
YAMANA Gold Inc. Toronto Canada
Broad Scale Commercial Bank, Irvine, California
3 Rooms Hotel, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hotel Polar Stern, Kuhlungsborn, Germany
Nelson Mullins, New York, NY
CURRENT AND LAST YEAR EXHIBITIONS
2023 "September Exhibition", Cheryl Hazan Gallery, NY, June 15 - Opening Sept. 8th, 6-8 pm
2023 "Abstract Investigations", Ric Michel Fine Art, Southampton, NY, June 15 - August 25, 2022
2023 Parlor Gallery-Design Center, Red Bank, NJ, June 15 - September 15, 2023
2022 Art Market Hamptons, Museum in Watermill, August 11 -14, 2022
2022 "Abstract Investigations", Ric Michel Fine Art, Southampton,
NY, June 15 - August 25, 2022
2022 "Reality...and Then Some", Ric Michel Fine Art, Southampton, NY, June 6-August 3
2022 ICFF, Javits Center, NY, May 15 - 17
2022 AD Art Show at the Iconic Oculus Westfield World Trade
Center, NY, May 1-May 31
2022 "Art by Architects" AIA, Center for Architecture, NY
SOLO PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS
2015 "Corrugatus Aurea", Albarracin Gallery, Buenos Aires,
Argentina
2011 "Baltic Images", Polar Stern Gallery, Kuhlungsborn, Germany
"Ha Performance", SITU Dance Company, New York, NY
2010 "The Shamanic Soul", Zelda Albarracin Gallery, New York, NY
"Disappeared and Vanished", Tinney Contemporary,
Nashville, TN
2008 “Lost” Haven arts, New York, NY
"Stains", Viridian Artists Gallery, New York
2007 Viridian Artists, New York, NY
"Indelible Coffee", RICHART Gallery, New York, NY
2006 "On Immateriality", Nature Lab Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
2005 "City Veil", Albarracin Penthouse Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2003 "The Urban Architect", Pleiades Gallery, Chelsea, New York
"Voids and Absence", RICHART Gallery, New York, NY
2002 City Revealed", Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY
"The invisible I", The Harlem Arts Council, New York, NY
2001 "Urban Chaos and other Orders", The National Arts Club,
New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 "Scratching the Surface", Ric Michel Fine Art,
Southampton, NY, May 10 - 31
2021 The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Altoona, PA,
"Almost Endless", August 5-August 31
2021. Dodomu Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, "Lines & Other Forms, July
1-August 3
2021 Ric Michel Fine Art, Southampton, NY, July
2020 Ric Michel Fine Art, Southampton, NY, "Water Works", June 2020
2019 Raw Space Gallery, New York City
ICFF, May 19-22, Pier 92, New York City
Architectural Digest, March 21-24, New York City
Chase Edwards, New York City
2018 The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, November 8-11, 2018
Chase Edwards Gallery, New York City
Van Der Plas Gallery, New York, NY
Artful Sol Gallery, Vail, Colorado
Architectural Digest, Pier 94, New York, NY
Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN
2017 Spectrum Miami-ARTI.NYC Gallery
The Other Art Fair-November 9-12, Brooklyn, NY - See
"News" tab for more information
"The Secrete Garden" Studio 7 Gallery at Fort Tilden,
Rockaway, NY
June-The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY - See "News" tab
for more information
Superfine! Art Fair, New York, NY - See "News" tab for
more information
New York Art Expo, Pier 94, NY -April 21-24 (Best New
Exhibitor Award)
Chase Edwards Contemporary Fine Art, Bridgehampton, NY
2016 Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN
Chase Edwards Contemporary Fine Art, Bridgehampton, NY
2015 Chase Edwards Contemporary Fine Art, Bridgehampton, NY
Albarracin Goyo Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
New York Art Expo, Pier 94, NY, NY
2014 (e)merge art fair, Washington DC 2014
Allan Poe Center Gallery, Bronx, NY
Wright Auction House, Chicago, IL
The Byrne Gallery, Middleburg, Virginia
2013 (e)merge art fair, Washington DC 2013
Cheryl Hazan Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Oriet Fine Art, Monkton, MD
Sarah Hamlin Hastings, Charleston, SC
2012 "Roots", Cheryl Hazan Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Yamana Executive Galleries, Toronto, Canada
2011 "Baltic Series", Kunsthalle Kuhlungsborn , Kuhlungsborn, Germany
Polar Stern Gallery, Kuhlungsborn, Germany
2010 "Exodus", Latin American Biennial, Lincoln Exhibition
Space, The Bronx Museum of Art
Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN
"Geometry and Gesture", Elgar Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY
The Providence Art Club, Providence, RI
2009 Elgar Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY
Svenska Konstgalleriet, Malmö, Sweden
Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN
2008 Haven arts, New York, New York
“Men on Maps” Haven arts, New York, New York
MOYA, Museum of Young Artists, Vienna, Austria
Crisolart Galleries, Barcelona, Spain
FYR arte contemporanea, Florence, Italy
2007 Viridian Artists, New York, NY
2006 Nature Lab Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
2005 Albarracin Penthouse Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
2003 Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Pleiads Gallery, New York, NY
The Harlem Arts Council, New York, NY
2001 The National Arts Club, New York, NY
2000 The Museum of Abano Terme, Padua, Italy
Sala Todeschini al Montirone, Abano Terme, Italy
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022 "East End Gallery Spotlight", DAN's Papers, page 22, June 3, 2022.
2018 "The Art Edit..." House & Garden Magazine, London-March 2018 issue.
"The Art Edit..." House & Garden Magazine, London-February 2018 issue.
"The Art Edit..." House & Garden Magazine, London-December 2017/January 2018 issue.
2017 Sandra Tyler, The Woven Tale Press, Vol. #6, July issue.
Emily Jaeger, Art/Artist Interview: Eduardo Terranova, The Woven Tale Press, July 10
2016 Marina Cocher, "Un homme en or/A Golden Man", Style ST Barth, St. Barth, French West Indies
2013 Leslie Jones, "T.G.I. Nov. in DC", Art Nerd New York, NY
Sarah Wilson, "Tracings", CURIATOR, Sept.
2012 Bric Blog, "Featured Artist", December 2012, Bric Organization, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Von Gerd Richardt, "Mit Sand vom Strand gemalt", Ostsee Zeitung, March 9
Lutz Werner, "Funf Ganz Unterschiedliche Sichtweisen", Ostsee Zeitung, February 17
2010 Freya West, "One More Cup of Coffee", Nashville Arts Magazine,
Emily Bartlett Hines, "Without a Trace - Disappeared and Vanished", Nashville Scene, Feb. 4 volume29
2008 “Underground Artists Exposed”, the New York Post, September
“Men on Maps”, the New York Magazine, September
2007 Ed McCormack, “Open Wounds” : Eduardo Terranova’s Heartrending-Tribute to the Disappeared, Gallery & Studio, September/October
Art Calendar, The New York Sun, July
2003 Ed McCormack, “Submerged Pictorialism” in the Art of Eduardo Terranova,
Gallery & Studio, February/March
2001 Lauren A. Elkins and Sandra Yin, “Yorkville artist’s paintings on exhibit”, Our Town, February
2000 Sandro Bianda, “Abano, artisti latinoamericani in passarella”, Il Matino di Padova, July
2000 Alessandro Mandovani, “Centro Opere per Raccontare L’arte del Sur America”
Il Gazzetino, Museo Civico Abano Terme, July
Catalogue, “Della Trasparenza”, International Exhibition, Museo Civico Abano Terme,Padua, August
Catalogue, “Tre Mostre D’arte Latino-americana”, Latin American Museum, Miami, Florida
AWARDS
2017 Artexpo New York -Best New Exhibitor
2014 (e)merge art fair, Washington, DC. Special exhibiton space,
Capitol Skylight Hotel.
2013 (e)merge art fair, Washington, DC. Special exhibiton space,
Capitol Skylight Hotel.
2012 Third Art Prize, Yamana, Toronto, Canada
2008 Honorary Mention, Svenska Kunstgalleriet, Malmö, Sweden
Leonardo Da Vinci Award, Technique and Composition
“One of a Thousand Disappeared”, FYR arte
contemporanea, Florence, Italy
2003 RISD Award of Excellence - Art/Architecture, Providence
RESIDENCIES
2011 Mecklenburg Inspires Grant, Artist in Residence Individual
Fellowship, Kuehlungsborn, Germany
2003 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Individual Grant
