Press Releases

October 8, 2002
Avram Gallery to Feature Works of Printmaker David Ferry

Contact:
Patricia Conway
(631) 287 8313
Fax: (631) 283 4081

Southampton College's Avram Gallery will feature the recent works of photomontage and printmaking specialist David Ferry. The show will open on Monday, October 28 and run through Friday, December 6.

This exhibition is the first major show of the artist in the United States. It will draw on two aspects of the artist's oeuvre - his artistbook works and original lithographs of the British scene and his discreet photomontage descriptions of locations that were made while he was a visiting professor and artist at Southampton College in 2001. Both cycles of work draw on his fascination for the interpretation of a particular place or historical incident that combine irony and hilarity with equal measure.

Ferry, a native of Blackpool, UK, studied art at the Blackpool College of Technology and The Camberwell School of Art and Crafts in London before earning a Masters degree from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. His first one-person London exhibition was at the 1984 International Contemporary Art Fair at the Barbican Centre. A touring exhibition of his recent book arts and prints began in 1999 to coincide with the publication of "Some Aspects of our National Heritage," a catalogue that focuses on the satirical element of tourist literature.

Ferry is currently Head of Printmaking at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK, and the Artistic Director of the Curwen Studio Print Centre in Cambridge. He was awarded a United Kingdom Arts and Humanities Research Board Award in 2000 and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award in 2002. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London in 2001.

Ferry's works are in the collections of the Joan Flasch collection of Artists Books at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Polish Book Arts Museum in Lodz, The Universities of Oxford and University College London, public galleries and museums and in many major corporate collections including British Airways, Marconi Instruments, Nuclear Electric, G.E.C. and Rothchilds Investments.

An artist reception will be held on Thursday, November 7 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. with an artist talk at 5:00 p.m. The gallery is open weekdays from 12:00 to 5:00 p.m. or by appointment. Call Director Beth Giles for more information (631) 287-8234.