Nancy Ferro
Nancy Ferro, “Ruler”, “Buttons”, and “By the Sea”
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
The juxtaposition of the past with the present, both visual and conceptual, these are the contrasts and intersections with which I work. This concept manifests itself from very basic design contrasts to more complex current topics.
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
2017, PRO-Wax Journal, Issue 14, Artists Using Circles
2017, University of Dallas, View from the Art Village, 50 -Year Retrospective, Juror: Nancy Cohen, Israel, Irving, Texas
2016, Gift Grab RO2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2016, CHAOS 2016, Ro2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2016, 19th Annual Woman Made Competition, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2016, The Dallas Art Fair, with RO2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2015-16, Artsy.net, RO2 Gallery, Nancy Ferro
2015-16, Cedar Valley College, Adaptive Reuse-Continuance, Lancaster, Texas, one person
2015, RO2 Gallery at The Magnolia, Adaptive reuse, Too!, Dallas, Texas
2015, The Ant Colony, Adaptive Reuse Project, Dallas, Texas
2015, Artspace111, Juried Competition (Vernon Fisher, Juror), Ft. Worth, Texas
2015, Latino Cultural Center, Juried Competition, (multiple jurors), Dallas, Texas
2015, Conrad Wild Gallery, Curator Miles Conrad, Shelter, 4 Person Exhibit, Tucson, Arizona
2015, Chaos, Invitational, RO2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2014, Subliminal, Juried Exhibition, 8 international Encaustic Conference, Provincetown, Ma., Dan Addington, Chicago, juror
2014, University of Dallas, Juried competition,Students of Juergen Strunck, Mark Anderson, Juror, Irving, Texas
2014, Authentic Visual Voices: Contemporary Paper and Encaustic by Catherine Nash, MFA, work included in....
2013, Nancy Ferro, Kilgore College, Kilgore, Texas
2013, Studio Visit Magazine, Winter Edition, Open Studios Press. Boston, MA., Juror-Barbara
O’Brien
2013, Texas Top Forty, Art on 5th Gallery, Austin, Texas
2013, Studio Tour, Continental Gin Building, Dallas, Texas
2013, 7, Truro Center for The Arts at Castle Hill, Shawn Hill-Juror, 7th International Encaustic Conference, Provincetown, Ma.
2013, 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
2011, White Rock Artists Studio Tour, Dallas, Texas
2011, One Foot of Wax, Northlake College, Irving Texas
2010, Easl Heist, 2010, Dallas, Texas
2010, Nancy Ferro,The Encaustic Center, Cache, Richardson, Texas
2010, Montserrat College, Best Foot Forward, Beverly, Massachusettes
2010, Pfamily Arts Center Plano, Texas, Texas Wax Fusion
2010, Art and Art History: Intersections, Collin County Community College, Plano, Texas
2010,New American Paintings, Anniversary Edition, Open Studios Press, Boston, Massachusettes
2009, DallasArtsRevue.com’s 30th Anniversary Exhibit,Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
2009, Kilgore College Exhibit, Encaustic, Dallas Wax, Kilgore, Texas
2009, White Rock artists Studio Tour, Dallas, Texas
2009, Global swarming, Discovery Gardens, Dallas, Texas
2009,The Encaustic Center, Richardson, Texas
2009, Nancy Ferro, Bees and Bird, Curiosities Antique Shop, Dallas, Texas
2009, Fifteen,The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2009, Nancy Ferro and Norman Kary, From Here to There, Bath House Cultural Center, Ferro/Kary, Dallas,Texas, Two person
2009, Five x Seven, Arthouse Splurge and Exhibition, Austin, Texas
2009, Four, Dallas, Barbars Elam, Cecelia Thurman, Nancy Ferro, VACD Gallery
2008, Winter, Dallas Arts Revue Artists
2008, Citycalart, Calendar Artists at The Gallery at Oldfield Davis
2008, Easl Heist, Artspace 111, Ft. Worth, Texas
2008, Fierce, Juried, Dallas Arts Revue at The 14th Street Gallery in Plano, Texas
2008, The Cedars Gallery hosts The Artists for The Citcalart Calendar
2008, Davis, Ferro, Guignon, Thornton, Walsh, and Wygren, The Gallery at Oldfield Davis, (benefitting Turtle Creek Chorale)
2008, Friends of Easl, Ft.Worth Community Arts Center, Ft. Worth, Texas
2008, Juried Publication, Studio Visit Magazine, Open Studios Press, Boston, Massachusetts
2008, Juried Publication, CityArt Cal, Dallas, Texas
2007, Easl Art Coloring Book, Dallas, Texas
2007, War and Peace, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2007, White Rock Artist’s Studio Tour, Dallas, Texas
2007, Salon du FIT, Bathhouse Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
2007, Thinking about The Box, Museum of The Southwest, Midland, Texas
2006, Collin County Faculty Exhibition, Spring Creek Campus, Plano, Texas
2006, Big as Night , two, 419 Gallery, Dallas Arts Revue Show, Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas
2006, Trinity River, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2006, Easel Art Heist, Southside on Lamar, Dallas, Texas
2006, Two From Texas, Nancy Ferro and Melodee Ramirez at Marie Park, Dallas, Texas
2005, Northlake Faculty Exhibition, Northlake College, Irving, Texas
2005, Whiterock Artists at The. Bathhouse Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
2005, Juried exhibition, Outside the Lines 5, Bathhouse Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
2005, One Person, Nancy Ferro,The Shape of Content, “Patterns of Continuous Creation” , The Museum of The Southwest, Midland, Texas
2005, “..and they are”, Irving Arts Center, Irving , Texas
2004, Juried publication, New American Paintings, Open Studios Press, Boston, Massachusetts
2004, Juried exhibition, Art In The Metroplex,TCU, Ft. Worth, Texas, Juror, Larry Rinder, Curator of Whitney Museum of Art
2004, Bathhouse Cultural Center, White Rock Artist’s Exhibition, Dallas, Texas
2004, “100 Drawings”, University of Dallas, Irving , Texas
2003, “Fragments”, Nancy Ferro, Caroline Waite, Ellen Frances Tuchman, Deborah Herring, University of Dallas, Irving, Texas
2003, 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
2001, 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
1996, Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Houston, Texas
1995, Invitational at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
1995, Dallas Women’s Caucus for Art, National Juried Show, Irving, Texas
1995, 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
1994, Exquisite Corpse Exhibition , DARE, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
1994, Emergency Artist’s Support League, Trammel Crow Center, Dallas, Texas
1994, Prints, Drawings and Other Works on Paper, Irving, Texas
1993, Tie One On, EASL, Emergency Artist’s Support League, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1993, Sixteenth Annual North Dakota Exhibition, Minot, North Dakota
1993, 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
1991, One Person exhibition, The Hockaday School, Dallas, Texas
1991, One Person Exhibition, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1990, Invitational, Works on Paper, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1990, “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
1989, 13th Annual National Invitational National Drawing Exhibition, Emporia State University,
Emporia, Kansas
1989, 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
1988, Group Exhibition, Locus Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
1988, One Person Exhibition, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1988, 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
1987, Group Exhibition, “New Works In Fiber”, Mark Twain Gallery, Greenberg and Nussbaum, St. Louis, Missouri
1987, Two Person Exhibition, Northlake College, Evelyn Baldwin and Nancy Ferro, Irving, Texas
1987, Texas Cultural Alliance Invitational, Dallas, Texas, with exhibitions in Guadalajara, Colima City, and Satapas, Mexico
1987, 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
1986, Invitational Mask Show, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1986, “City Hall Open” Exhibition, juried, Dallas City Hall, Dallas, Texas
1985, “Citation Exhibition”, juried, San Jacinto Tower, Dallas, Texas
1985, “Critic’s Choice, Texas Heritage”, Juried Exhibition, D-Art Visual Center, Dallas, Texas
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
The juxtaposition of the past with the present, both visual and conceptual, these are the contrasts and intersections with which I work. This concept manifests itself from very basic design contrasts to more complex current topics.
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
2017, PRO-Wax Journal, Issue 14, Artists Using Circles
2017, University of Dallas, View from the Art Village, 50 -Year Retrospective, Juror: Nancy Cohen, Israel, Irving, Texas
2016, Gift Grab RO2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2016, CHAOS 2016, Ro2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2016, 19th Annual Woman Made Competition, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2016, The Dallas Art Fair, with RO2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2015-16, Artsy.net, RO2 Gallery, Nancy Ferro
2015-16, Cedar Valley College, Adaptive Reuse-Continuance, Lancaster, Texas, one person
2015, RO2 Gallery at The Magnolia, Adaptive reuse, Too!, Dallas, Texas
2015, The Ant Colony, Adaptive Reuse Project, Dallas, Texas
2015, Artspace111, Juried Competition (Vernon Fisher, Juror), Ft. Worth, Texas
2015, Latino Cultural Center, Juried Competition, (multiple jurors), Dallas, Texas
2015, Conrad Wild Gallery, Curator Miles Conrad, Shelter, 4 Person Exhibit, Tucson, Arizona
2015, Chaos, Invitational, RO2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2014, Subliminal, Juried Exhibition, 8 international Encaustic Conference, Provincetown, Ma., Dan Addington, Chicago, juror
2014, University of Dallas, Juried competition,Students of Juergen Strunck, Mark Anderson, Juror, Irving, Texas
2014, Authentic Visual Voices: Contemporary Paper and Encaustic by Catherine Nash, MFA, work included in....
2013, Nancy Ferro, Kilgore College, Kilgore, Texas
2013, Studio Visit Magazine, Winter Edition, Open Studios Press. Boston, MA., Juror-Barbara
O’Brien
2013, Texas Top Forty, Art on 5th Gallery, Austin, Texas
2013, Studio Tour, Continental Gin Building, Dallas, Texas
2013, 7, Truro Center for The Arts at Castle Hill, Shawn Hill-Juror, 7th International Encaustic Conference, Provincetown, Ma.
2013, 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
2011, White Rock Artists Studio Tour, Dallas, Texas
2011, One Foot of Wax, Northlake College, Irving Texas
2010, Easl Heist, 2010, Dallas, Texas
2010, Nancy Ferro,The Encaustic Center, Cache, Richardson, Texas
2010, Montserrat College, Best Foot Forward, Beverly, Massachusettes
2010, Pfamily Arts Center Plano, Texas, Texas Wax Fusion
2010, Art and Art History: Intersections, Collin County Community College, Plano, Texas
2010,New American Paintings, Anniversary Edition, Open Studios Press, Boston, Massachusettes
2009, DallasArtsRevue.com’s 30th Anniversary Exhibit,Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
2009, Kilgore College Exhibit, Encaustic, Dallas Wax, Kilgore, Texas
2009, White Rock artists Studio Tour, Dallas, Texas
2009, Global swarming, Discovery Gardens, Dallas, Texas
2009,The Encaustic Center, Richardson, Texas
2009, Nancy Ferro, Bees and Bird, Curiosities Antique Shop, Dallas, Texas
2009, Fifteen,The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2009, Nancy Ferro and Norman Kary, From Here to There, Bath House Cultural Center, Ferro/Kary, Dallas,Texas, Two person
2009, Five x Seven, Arthouse Splurge and Exhibition, Austin, Texas
2009, Four, Dallas, Barbars Elam, Cecelia Thurman, Nancy Ferro, VACD Gallery
2008, Winter, Dallas Arts Revue Artists
2008, Citycalart, Calendar Artists at The Gallery at Oldfield Davis
2008, Easl Heist, Artspace 111, Ft. Worth, Texas
2008, Fierce, Juried, Dallas Arts Revue at The 14th Street Gallery in Plano, Texas
2008, The Cedars Gallery hosts The Artists for The Citcalart Calendar
2008, Davis, Ferro, Guignon, Thornton, Walsh, and Wygren, The Gallery at Oldfield Davis, (benefitting Turtle Creek Chorale)
2008, Friends of Easl, Ft.Worth Community Arts Center, Ft. Worth, Texas
2008, Juried Publication, Studio Visit Magazine, Open Studios Press, Boston, Massachusetts
2008, Juried Publication, CityArt Cal, Dallas, Texas
2007, Easl Art Coloring Book, Dallas, Texas
2007, War and Peace, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2007, White Rock Artist’s Studio Tour, Dallas, Texas
2007, Salon du FIT, Bathhouse Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
2007, Thinking about The Box, Museum of The Southwest, Midland, Texas
2006, Collin County Faculty Exhibition, Spring Creek Campus, Plano, Texas
2006, Big as Night , two, 419 Gallery, Dallas Arts Revue Show, Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas
2006, Trinity River, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2006, Easel Art Heist, Southside on Lamar, Dallas, Texas
2006, Two From Texas, Nancy Ferro and Melodee Ramirez at Marie Park, Dallas, Texas
2005, Northlake Faculty Exhibition, Northlake College, Irving, Texas
2005, Whiterock Artists at The. Bathhouse Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
2005, Juried exhibition, Outside the Lines 5, Bathhouse Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
2005, One Person, Nancy Ferro,The Shape of Content, “Patterns of Continuous Creation” , The Museum of The Southwest, Midland, Texas
2005, “..and they are”, Irving Arts Center, Irving , Texas
2004, Juried publication, New American Paintings, Open Studios Press, Boston, Massachusetts
2004, Juried exhibition, Art In The Metroplex,TCU, Ft. Worth, Texas, Juror, Larry Rinder, Curator of Whitney Museum of Art
2004, Bathhouse Cultural Center, White Rock Artist’s Exhibition, Dallas, Texas
2004, “100 Drawings”, University of Dallas, Irving , Texas
2003, “Fragments”, Nancy Ferro, Caroline Waite, Ellen Frances Tuchman, Deborah Herring, University of Dallas, Irving, Texas
2003, 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
2001, 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
1996, Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Houston, Texas
1995, Invitational at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
1995, Dallas Women’s Caucus for Art, National Juried Show, Irving, Texas
1995, 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
1994, Exquisite Corpse Exhibition , DARE, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
1994, Emergency Artist’s Support League, Trammel Crow Center, Dallas, Texas
1994, Prints, Drawings and Other Works on Paper, Irving, Texas
1993, Tie One On, EASL, Emergency Artist’s Support League, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1993, Sixteenth Annual North Dakota Exhibition, Minot, North Dakota
1993, 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
1991, One Person exhibition, The Hockaday School, Dallas, Texas
1991, One Person Exhibition, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1990, Invitational, Works on Paper, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1990, “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
1989, 13th Annual National Invitational National Drawing Exhibition, Emporia State University,
Emporia, Kansas
1989, 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
1988, Group Exhibition, Locus Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
1988, One Person Exhibition, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1988, 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
1987, Group Exhibition, “New Works In Fiber”, Mark Twain Gallery, Greenberg and Nussbaum, St. Louis, Missouri
1987, Two Person Exhibition, Northlake College, Evelyn Baldwin and Nancy Ferro, Irving, Texas
1987, Texas Cultural Alliance Invitational, Dallas, Texas, with exhibitions in Guadalajara, Colima City, and Satapas, Mexico
1987, 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
1986, Invitational Mask Show, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1986, “City Hall Open” Exhibition, juried, Dallas City Hall, Dallas, Texas
1985, “Citation Exhibition”, juried, San Jacinto Tower, Dallas, Texas
1985, “Critic’s Choice, Texas Heritage”, Juried Exhibition, D-Art Visual Center, Dallas, Texas
