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The Whispering Woman At Prayer
Oil-based white French etching ink on Stonehenge Black
printmaking paper (UK) with Thai mulberry bark color
paper Chine collé overlay attached with
studio-made organic methylcellulose.
Statement:
Prayer is a creative tool through which
we attain contact with the Enlightened Awareness of the
Universe; it is a "birthing" tool, a "teaching" tool, and a
"nurturing" tool. What's more, the "prayer-tool" is a
primordial one, which is also innate to "Feminine
Consciousness." As such, when women (and men with "Feminine
Consciousness") pray—when they establish a nexus with the
Great Enlightened
Awareness of the Universe, some "thing" magical happens in the
cosmos.
Bio:
Jerry Di Falco
has exhibited etchings, paintings, mixed-media assemblages,
and environmental installations in over 400 shows around the
world since 1979. Di Falco's accolades include: the City of
Philadelphia's Award in Arts and Culture (2009); an Individual
Artist's Fellowship in Painting from the Pollock-Krasner
Foundation in New York City (2002, $30,000), and two
Individual Artist's Grants from the Pennsylvania State Arts
Council (1992, 1987).
Di Falco has received several Artist Residencies, which
include: The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rutgers University,
Drexel University, and the Philadelphia School District, and
Nexus Foundation for Today's Art. He holds an M.S. from Drexel
University (1985) and a BFA from Rutgers University
(1974). Currently, Jerry acts as a Studio Monitor at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art's Open Studio in Etching at their
school, the Fleisher Art Memorial (since 2009).
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