Nancy Ferro
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Artist Bio
Nancy Ferro began her studies, with Ruth Harrison, while at The Hockaday School, in Dallas. She continued at the teachers college she attended in Nacogdoches, Texas, Stephen F. Austin University, graduating with a BA degree in Education, Art, and French. When time would permit she attended The University of Dallas, Irving, Texas, on scholarship, for both an MA and an MFA in Drawing and Printmaking. Here she studied with Juergen Strunck as her major professor.
She enjoys working with a multi media and textural approach, containing layers of paper, drawing, found objects, and paint, most often beeswax. She enjoys gathering, cutting, pasting, drawing, and painting. She has had exhibits, both gallery and museum, one person and multi person, both in state and out of state. She has been included in several national and international publications. She has reached out in the area of curation, and teaching workshops on many levels. She is particularly proud of a large gallery for student work that opened for all of the art students at Highland Park High School. She engaged the help of Highland Park Arts, HP Arts, and the Principal at the time, Robert Albano for space, and financial support . While there, she also found a large exhibiting space, off campus, for yearly shows at Half Price Books in Dallas. This was for her AP and Printmaking Students. She continued to teach as well as make art until very recently. Now she enjoys art making solely.
Artist Statement
A favorite quotation of mine is simply part of a sentence from an Isaac Bashevis Singer novel, “...the patterns of continuous creation”. Each day when making decisions I look to the past and to current situations to create the present, part of the past is included, part of it left behind. The juxtaposition of the past with the present, both visual and conceptual, these are the contrasts and intersections with which I enjoy working. The ways they affect each other, both physically and intellectually, are of importance to me. My titles are taken from words or elements within the pieces. Materials that I use may be found materials, coming from friends, collections, walks, discards, and various papers. Others are more traditional artist materials and may include paper, pencil, crayon, paint, and beeswax. I enjoy working with the interplay of a complex variety of elements and materials.
Artist CV
Education:
The University of Dallas, Irving, Texas, MA, 1987, MFA, 1989
Stephen F. Austin, Nacogdoches, Texas, BA, 1966
The Hockaday School, 1962
Selected Competitions and Exhibitions:
2017 CHAOS 2017, RO2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
PRO-Wax Journal, Issue 14, Artists Using Circles
University of Dallas, View from the Art Village, 50 -Year Retrospective, Juror: Nancy Cohen, Israel, Irving, Texas
2016 Gift Grab RO2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
CHAOS 2016, Ro2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
19th Annual Woman Made Competition, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
The Dallas Art Fair, with RO2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2015-16 Artsy.net, RO2 Gallery, Nancy Ferro
Cedar Valley College, Adaptive Reuse-Continuance, Lancaster, Texas, one person
2015 RO2 Gallery at The Magnolia, Adaptive reuse, Too!, Dallas, Texas
The Ant Colony, Adaptive Reuse Project, Dallas, Texas
Artspace111, Juried Competition (Vernon Fisher, Juror), Ft. Worth, Texas
Latino Cultural Center, Juried Competition, (multiple jurors), Dallas, Texas
Conrad Wild Gallery, Curator Miles Conrad, Shelter, 4 Person Exhibit, Tucson, Arizona
Chaos, Invitational, RO2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2014 Subliminal, Juried Exhibition, 8 international Encaustic Conference, Provincetown, Ma., Dan Addington, Chicago, juror
University of Dallas, Juried competition,Students of Juergen Strunck, Mark Anderson, Juror, Irving, Texas
Authentic Visual Voices: Contemporary Paper and Encaustic by Catherine Nash, MFA, work included in....
2013 Nancy Ferro, Kilgore College, Kilgore, Texas
Studio Visit Magazine, Winter Edition, Open Studios Press. Boston, MA., Juror-Barbara
O’Brien
Texas Top Forty, Art on 5th Gallery, Austin, Texas
Studio Tour, Continental Gin Building, Dallas, Texas
7, Truro Center for The Arts at Castle Hill, Shawn Hill-Juror, 7th International Encaustic Conference, Provincetown, Ma.
Centennial Exhibition, The Hockaday School, Juried by Alumnae,
2012 Northlake College, Revisiting the Discarded, Kary, Ferro, Yarbrough, Irving, Texas
2011 Elle Realty,“75218”, Dallas, Texas
White Rock Artists Studio Tour, Dallas, Texas
One Foot of Wax, Northlake College, Irving Texas
2010 Easl Heist, 2010, Dallas, Texas
Nancy Ferro,The Encaustic Center, Cache, Richardson, Texas
Montserrat College, Best Foot Forward, Beverly, Massachusettes
Pfamily Arts Center Plano, Texas, Texas Wax Fusion
Art and Art History: Intersections, Collin County Community College, Plano, Texas
New American Paintings, Anniversary Edition, Open Studios Press, Boston, Massachusettes
2009 DallasArtsRevue.com’s 30th Anniversary Exhibit,Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
Kilgore College Exhibit, Encaustic, Dallas Wax, Kilgore, Texas
White Rock artists Studio Tour, Dallas, Texas
Global swarming, Discovery Gardens, Dallas, Texas
The Encaustic Center, Richardson, Texas
Nancy Ferro, Bees and Bird, Curiosities Antique Shop, Dallas, Texas
Fifteen,The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Nancy Ferro and Norman Kary, From Here to There, Bath House Cultural Center, Ferro/Kary, Dallas,Texas, Two person
Five x Seven, Arthouse Splurge and Exhibition, Austin, Texas
Four, Dallas, Barbars Elam, Cecelia Thurman, Nancy Ferro, VACD Gallery
2008 Winter, Dallas Arts Revue Artists
Citycalart, Calendar Artists at The Gallery at Oldfield Davis
Easl Heist, Artspace 111, Ft. Worth, Texas
Fierce, Juried, Dallas Arts Revue at The 14th Street Gallery in Plano, Texas
The Cedars Gallery hosts The Artists for The Citcalart Calendar
Davis, Ferro, Guignon, Thornton, Walsh, and Wygren, The Gallery at Oldfield Davis, (benefitting Turtle Creek Chorale)
Friends of Easl, Ft.Worth Community Arts Center, Ft. Worth, Texas
Juried Publication, Studio Visit Magazine, Open Studios Press, Boston, Massachusetts
Juried Publication, CityArt Cal, Dallas, Texas
2007 Easl Art Coloring Book, Dallas, Texas
War and Peace, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
White Rock Artist’s Studio Tour, Dallas, Texas
Salon du FIT, Bathhouse Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
Thinking about The Box, Museum of The Southwest, Midland, Texas
2006 Collin County Faculty Exhibition, Spring Creek Campus, Plano, Texas
Big as Night , two, 419 Gallery, Dallas Arts Revue Show, Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas
Trinity River, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Easel Art Heist, Southside on Lamar, Dallas, Texas
Two From Texas, Nancy Ferro and Melodee Ramirez at Marie Park, Dallas, Texas
2005 Northlake Faculty Exhibition, Northlake College, Irving, Texas
Whiterock Artists at The. Bathhouse Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
Juried exhibition, Outside the Lines 5, Bathhouse Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
One Person, Nancy Ferro,The Shape of Content, “Patterns of Continuous Creation” , The Museum of The Southwest, Midland, Texas
“..and they are”, Irving Arts Center, Irving , Texas
2004 Juried publication, New American Paintings, Open Studios Press, Boston, Massachusetts
Juried exhibition, Art In The Metroplex,TCU, Ft. Worth, Texas, Juror, Larry Rinder, Curator of Whitney Museum of Art
Bathhouse Cultural Center, White Rock Artist’s Exhibition, Dallas, Texas
“100 Drawings”, University of Dallas, Irving , Texas
2003 “Fragments”, Nancy Ferro, Caroline Waite, Ellen Frances Tuchman, Deborah Herring, University of Dallas, Irving, Texas
Two Person Exhibition, Laurie Cox and Nancy Ferro at Marie Park, Dallas, Texas
2000-2004 White Rock Artists Studio Tour, Dallas, Texas
2002 “Four Teachers 4”: Ashley, Ferro, Obranovich, Smetzer, Bathhouse Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas,
2001 Ferro and Van Wagoner, Recent Work, Northlake College
Dia de Los Muertos, Bathhouse Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
2000 Faculty Exhibit, Highland Park High School, Dallas, Texas,
1999 The Assemblage Art Awards, Irving, Texas
1998 The Continental Gin Artists, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas
1996 Thirteenth Annual National Juried Exhibition, Warehouse of the Living Arts, Corsicana, Texas
Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Houston, Texas
1995 Invitational at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Dallas Women’s Caucus for Art, National Juried Show, Irving, Texas
Drawings, Prints and Other Works on Paper, Northlake College, Irving, Texas
1994 Hats off To E.A.S.L., Emergency Artist’s Support League, Dallas, Texas
Exquisite Corpse Exhibition , DARE, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Emergency Artist’s Support League, Trammel Crow Center, Dallas, Texas
Prints, Drawings and Other Works on Paper, Irving, Texas
1993 Tie One On, EASL, Emergency Artist’s Support League, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Sixteenth Annual North Dakota Exhibition, Minot, North Dakota
DARE A to Z, The Bathhouse, Dallas, Texas
1992 EASL Artist’s Coloring Book, Emergency Artists Support League, Dallas, Texas
1991 Invitational, “Time is Relative”, Beverly Gordon Gallery, Dallas, Texas
One Person exhibition, The Hockaday School, Dallas, Texas
One Person Exhibition, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1990 Invitational, Works on Paper, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
“4: Recent Works”, Falsetta, Orr, Ferro, Hicks, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1989 Juried Exhibition, Common Ground: Beyond Boundaries, Dallas Women’s Caucus for Art, Dallas, Texas
13th Annual National Invitational National Drawing Exhibition, Emporia State University,
Emporia, Kansas
Group Invitational, “The Self-Portrait” Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1988 Juried Exhibition, Art In The Metroplex, Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth, Texas,
Juror, John Neff
1988 Texas Visual Artists Association, 15th Annual Spring Exhibition, Dallas, Texas
Group Exhibition, Locus Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
One Person Exhibition, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
The Art of Printmaking, The Sheraton Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1987 Group Exhibition, Dallas Women’s Caucus for Art, Dallas City Hall, Juror’s Commendation, Dallas, Texas
Group Exhibition, “New Works In Fiber”, Mark Twain Gallery, Greenberg and Nussbaum, St. Louis, Missouri
Two Person Exhibition, Northlake College, Evelyn Baldwin and Nancy Ferro, Irving, Texas
Texas Cultural Alliance Invitational, Dallas, Texas, with exhibitions in Guadalajara, Colima City, and Satapas, Mexico
Four Person Exhibition, “Works by Ferro, Griffin, Strunck, and Van Wagoner”, Warehouse for The Living Arts, Corsicana, Texas
1986 Mountain View Invitational, Mountain View College, Dallas, Texas
Invitational Mask Show, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
“City Hall Open” Exhibition, juried, Dallas City Hall, Dallas, Texas
1985 “Citation Exhibition”, juried, San Jacinto Tower, Dallas, Texas
“Critic’s Choice, Texas Heritage”, Juried Exhibition, D-Art Visual Center, Dallas, Texas
Artist Bio
Nancy Ferro began her studies, with Ruth Harrison, while at The Hockaday School, in Dallas. She continued at the teachers college she attended in Nacogdoches, Texas, Stephen F. Austin University, graduating with a BA degree in Education, Art, and French. When time would permit she attended The University of Dallas, Irving, Texas, on scholarship, for both an MA and an MFA in Drawing and Printmaking. Here she studied with Juergen Strunck as her major professor.
She enjoys working with a multi media and textural approach, containing layers of paper, drawing, found objects, and paint, most often beeswax. She enjoys gathering, cutting, pasting, drawing, and painting. She has had exhibits, both gallery and museum, one person and multi person, both in state and out of state. She has been included in several national and international publications. She has reached out in the area of curation, and teaching workshops on many levels. She is particularly proud of a large gallery for student work that opened for all of the art students at Highland Park High School. She engaged the help of Highland Park Arts, HP Arts, and the Principal at the time, Robert Albano for space, and financial support . While there, she also found a large exhibiting space, off campus, for yearly shows at Half Price Books in Dallas. This was for her AP and Printmaking Students. She continued to teach as well as make art until very recently. Now she enjoys art making solely.
Artist Statement
A favorite quotation of mine is simply part of a sentence from an Isaac Bashevis Singer novel, “...the patterns of continuous creation”. Each day when making decisions I look to the past and to current situations to create the present, part of the past is included, part of it left behind. The juxtaposition of the past with the present, both visual and conceptual, these are the contrasts and intersections with which I enjoy working. The ways they affect each other, both physically and intellectually, are of importance to me. My titles are taken from words or elements within the pieces. Materials that I use may be found materials, coming from friends, collections, walks, discards, and various papers. Others are more traditional artist materials and may include paper, pencil, crayon, paint, and beeswax. I enjoy working with the interplay of a complex variety of elements and materials.
Artist CV
Education:
The University of Dallas, Irving, Texas, MA, 1987, MFA, 1989
Stephen F. Austin, Nacogdoches, Texas, BA, 1966
The Hockaday School, 1962
Selected Competitions and Exhibitions:
2017 CHAOS 2017, RO2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
PRO-Wax Journal, Issue 14, Artists Using Circles
University of Dallas, View from the Art Village, 50 -Year Retrospective, Juror: Nancy Cohen, Israel, Irving, Texas
2016 Gift Grab RO2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
CHAOS 2016, Ro2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
19th Annual Woman Made Competition, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
The Dallas Art Fair, with RO2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2015-16 Artsy.net, RO2 Gallery, Nancy Ferro
Cedar Valley College, Adaptive Reuse-Continuance, Lancaster, Texas, one person
2015 RO2 Gallery at The Magnolia, Adaptive reuse, Too!, Dallas, Texas
The Ant Colony, Adaptive Reuse Project, Dallas, Texas
Artspace111, Juried Competition (Vernon Fisher, Juror), Ft. Worth, Texas
Latino Cultural Center, Juried Competition, (multiple jurors), Dallas, Texas
Conrad Wild Gallery, Curator Miles Conrad, Shelter, 4 Person Exhibit, Tucson, Arizona
Chaos, Invitational, RO2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2014 Subliminal, Juried Exhibition, 8 international Encaustic Conference, Provincetown, Ma., Dan Addington, Chicago, juror
University of Dallas, Juried competition,Students of Juergen Strunck, Mark Anderson, Juror, Irving, Texas
Authentic Visual Voices: Contemporary Paper and Encaustic by Catherine Nash, MFA, work included in....
2013 Nancy Ferro, Kilgore College, Kilgore, Texas
Studio Visit Magazine, Winter Edition, Open Studios Press. Boston, MA., Juror-Barbara
O’Brien
Texas Top Forty, Art on 5th Gallery, Austin, Texas
Studio Tour, Continental Gin Building, Dallas, Texas
7, Truro Center for The Arts at Castle Hill, Shawn Hill-Juror, 7th International Encaustic Conference, Provincetown, Ma.
Centennial Exhibition, The Hockaday School, Juried by Alumnae,
2012 Northlake College, Revisiting the Discarded, Kary, Ferro, Yarbrough, Irving, Texas
2011 Elle Realty,“75218”, Dallas, Texas
White Rock Artists Studio Tour, Dallas, Texas
One Foot of Wax, Northlake College, Irving Texas
2010 Easl Heist, 2010, Dallas, Texas
Nancy Ferro,The Encaustic Center, Cache, Richardson, Texas
Montserrat College, Best Foot Forward, Beverly, Massachusettes
Pfamily Arts Center Plano, Texas, Texas Wax Fusion
Art and Art History: Intersections, Collin County Community College, Plano, Texas
New American Paintings, Anniversary Edition, Open Studios Press, Boston, Massachusettes
2009 DallasArtsRevue.com’s 30th Anniversary Exhibit,Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
Kilgore College Exhibit, Encaustic, Dallas Wax, Kilgore, Texas
White Rock artists Studio Tour, Dallas, Texas
Global swarming, Discovery Gardens, Dallas, Texas
The Encaustic Center, Richardson, Texas
Nancy Ferro, Bees and Bird, Curiosities Antique Shop, Dallas, Texas
Fifteen,The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Nancy Ferro and Norman Kary, From Here to There, Bath House Cultural Center, Ferro/Kary, Dallas,Texas, Two person
Five x Seven, Arthouse Splurge and Exhibition, Austin, Texas
Four, Dallas, Barbars Elam, Cecelia Thurman, Nancy Ferro, VACD Gallery
2008 Winter, Dallas Arts Revue Artists
Citycalart, Calendar Artists at The Gallery at Oldfield Davis
Easl Heist, Artspace 111, Ft. Worth, Texas
Fierce, Juried, Dallas Arts Revue at The 14th Street Gallery in Plano, Texas
The Cedars Gallery hosts The Artists for The Citcalart Calendar
Davis, Ferro, Guignon, Thornton, Walsh, and Wygren, The Gallery at Oldfield Davis, (benefitting Turtle Creek Chorale)
Friends of Easl, Ft.Worth Community Arts Center, Ft. Worth, Texas
Juried Publication, Studio Visit Magazine, Open Studios Press, Boston, Massachusetts
Juried Publication, CityArt Cal, Dallas, Texas
2007 Easl Art Coloring Book, Dallas, Texas
War and Peace, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
White Rock Artist’s Studio Tour, Dallas, Texas
Salon du FIT, Bathhouse Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
Thinking about The Box, Museum of The Southwest, Midland, Texas
2006 Collin County Faculty Exhibition, Spring Creek Campus, Plano, Texas
Big as Night , two, 419 Gallery, Dallas Arts Revue Show, Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas
Trinity River, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Easel Art Heist, Southside on Lamar, Dallas, Texas
Two From Texas, Nancy Ferro and Melodee Ramirez at Marie Park, Dallas, Texas
2005 Northlake Faculty Exhibition, Northlake College, Irving, Texas
Whiterock Artists at The. Bathhouse Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
Juried exhibition, Outside the Lines 5, Bathhouse Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
One Person, Nancy Ferro,The Shape of Content, “Patterns of Continuous Creation” , The Museum of The Southwest, Midland, Texas
“..and they are”, Irving Arts Center, Irving , Texas
2004 Juried publication, New American Paintings, Open Studios Press, Boston, Massachusetts
Juried exhibition, Art In The Metroplex,TCU, Ft. Worth, Texas, Juror, Larry Rinder, Curator of Whitney Museum of Art
Bathhouse Cultural Center, White Rock Artist’s Exhibition, Dallas, Texas
“100 Drawings”, University of Dallas, Irving , Texas
2003 “Fragments”, Nancy Ferro, Caroline Waite, Ellen Frances Tuchman, Deborah Herring, University of Dallas, Irving, Texas
Two Person Exhibition, Laurie Cox and Nancy Ferro at Marie Park, Dallas, Texas
2000-2004 White Rock Artists Studio Tour, Dallas, Texas
2002 “Four Teachers 4”: Ashley, Ferro, Obranovich, Smetzer, Bathhouse Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas,
2001 Ferro and Van Wagoner, Recent Work, Northlake College
Dia de Los Muertos, Bathhouse Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
2000 Faculty Exhibit, Highland Park High School, Dallas, Texas,
1999 The Assemblage Art Awards, Irving, Texas
1998 The Continental Gin Artists, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas
1996 Thirteenth Annual National Juried Exhibition, Warehouse of the Living Arts, Corsicana, Texas
Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Houston, Texas
1995 Invitational at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Dallas Women’s Caucus for Art, National Juried Show, Irving, Texas
Drawings, Prints and Other Works on Paper, Northlake College, Irving, Texas
1994 Hats off To E.A.S.L., Emergency Artist’s Support League, Dallas, Texas
Exquisite Corpse Exhibition , DARE, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Emergency Artist’s Support League, Trammel Crow Center, Dallas, Texas
Prints, Drawings and Other Works on Paper, Irving, Texas
1993 Tie One On, EASL, Emergency Artist’s Support League, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Sixteenth Annual North Dakota Exhibition, Minot, North Dakota
DARE A to Z, The Bathhouse, Dallas, Texas
1992 EASL Artist’s Coloring Book, Emergency Artists Support League, Dallas, Texas
1991 Invitational, “Time is Relative”, Beverly Gordon Gallery, Dallas, Texas
One Person exhibition, The Hockaday School, Dallas, Texas
One Person Exhibition, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1990 Invitational, Works on Paper, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
“4: Recent Works”, Falsetta, Orr, Ferro, Hicks, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1989 Juried Exhibition, Common Ground: Beyond Boundaries, Dallas Women’s Caucus for Art, Dallas, Texas
13th Annual National Invitational National Drawing Exhibition, Emporia State University,
Emporia, Kansas
Group Invitational, “The Self-Portrait” Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1988 Juried Exhibition, Art In The Metroplex, Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth, Texas,
Juror, John Neff
1988 Texas Visual Artists Association, 15th Annual Spring Exhibition, Dallas, Texas
Group Exhibition, Locus Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
One Person Exhibition, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
The Art of Printmaking, The Sheraton Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1987 Group Exhibition, Dallas Women’s Caucus for Art, Dallas City Hall, Juror’s Commendation, Dallas, Texas
Group Exhibition, “New Works In Fiber”, Mark Twain Gallery, Greenberg and Nussbaum, St. Louis, Missouri
Two Person Exhibition, Northlake College, Evelyn Baldwin and Nancy Ferro, Irving, Texas
Texas Cultural Alliance Invitational, Dallas, Texas, with exhibitions in Guadalajara, Colima City, and Satapas, Mexico
Four Person Exhibition, “Works by Ferro, Griffin, Strunck, and Van Wagoner”, Warehouse for The Living Arts, Corsicana, Texas
1986 Mountain View Invitational, Mountain View College, Dallas, Texas
Invitational Mask Show, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
“City Hall Open” Exhibition, juried, Dallas City Hall, Dallas, Texas
1985 “Citation Exhibition”, juried, San Jacinto Tower, Dallas, Texas
“Critic’s Choice, Texas Heritage”, Juried Exhibition, D-Art Visual Center, Dallas, Texas
