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Thomas Ferrella

untethered

auto-didact

visual and performance artist

thomas ferrella resides in madison, wi, he has participated in a carl wilkens fellowship, nominated by TIME for a “can’t miss” photography show at the gage gallery [chicago] in 2016, won an NBC award for his 30 year photo-documentary work of roadside memorials titled not forgotten, premiered his 1 world project in camaguey, cuba in 2017 and just completed and performed his third film, ghost wars with his band you of all people at elastic arts studio [chicago] and at the mmsd planetarium [madison], his second film shadowlands was a commission piece that showcased in paris and chicago, he is also known in small circles for running bluestem jazz in madison

by Thomas Ferrella

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Exploration is the simplest way to assay his work.

Thomas Ferrella is a Wisconsin-based artist who conceptualizes a piece or a body of work based on visual clues and their subsequent sensory perception. He speculates in a variety of artistic mediums, frequently commenting on and responding to social and environmental causes using truth as his guide. Photography has been the foundation though he willfully strays into music, video, painting, large scale installations, sculpting in wood and found objects. His art is as free as is his interpretation of the world. Everything is fair game.

Common threads exist though he considers them irrelevant. His aesthetic is a natural abstraction, a graphic documentation, a personal dialogue, an invitation to poetry.