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Artworks
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Biography
Fernando Mastrangelo's striking sculptures occupy a fluid space at the convergence of art and design, allowing for an expansive interpretation of both their visual aesthetic and rational intention. References to art history and social issues pervade the works, enticing a rich and multilayered appreciation of both their form and content.
To create his sculptures, the artist uses materials common to quotidian life but entirely atypical of fine art, including salt, coffee, sand, glass and cement. He then combines the raw materials with resin, and other industrial components, to create deeply textured and evocative works. Muted palettes, punctuated by soft shadows of color, belie a complex quality that harmoniously integrates this seemingly contradictory practice.
The inherent paradox of his sculptures, yields a unique visual character which foregrounds both the organic nature of each element and the creative and intellectual motivation behind their use. For Mastrangelo, "materials are metaphors, they are inherently loaded with content." The imperative of his creative process is to provoke a conscious reflection on the human condition and stimulate a narrative between the work itself and the objective concern it addresses.
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CV
Download Mastrangelo CVBorn 1978
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NYEDUCATION
MFA, Sculpture, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
BFA, Sculpture, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WASOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
The Vallée - Art Basel Collectors Lounge, w/Audemars Piguet, Basel, Switzerland; Miami, FL; and Hong Kong, China
Tiny House Installation, DesignxNY, Times Square, New York, NY
Capital Collection, Dubai Design District, Dubai, UAE
2018
Collective Design Fair, New York, NY
Zona Maco, Mexico City, MX
2017
Reverence, Edward Fields, New York, NY
Ridge, Sight Unseen OFFSITE, New York, NY
Ghost & Thaw, Collective Design Fair, New York, NY
ESCAPE, Maison Gerard, New York, NY
2016
FADE, Sight Unseen OFFSITE, New York, NY
Drift Collection, The New, Los Angeles, CA
Collective Design Fair, New York, NY
2015
Drift, RH Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CACollective Design Fair, New York, NY
NOTHING, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
2013
Medallions, Kowal+Odermatt, Miami, FL
2012
This too Shall Pass, Zoya Tommy Contemporary, Houston, TX
2011
Black Sculpture, Charest-Weinberg, Miami, FL
2009
Felix, Mendes Wood Gallery, Volta, New York, NY
LoVE is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Kumukumu Gallery New York, NY
2006
Malicia, rare, New York, NYGROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY
2018
In Good Company, Brooklyn, NY
CHUNK, collaboration with Anna Karlin, New York, NY
Coal Planter, collaboration with Boyd Holbrook, Sight Unseen OFFSITE, New York, NY
A New Breed, 1stDibs, Milan, Italy
2017
In Good Company, Brooklyn, NY
PAD London, Rosanna Orlandi, London, UK
ESCAPE, Salone Del Mobile, Rosanna Orlandi, Milan, Italy
2016
Salone Art + Design, Maison Gerard, New York, NY
Salone Del Mobile, Rosanna Orlandi, Milan, ItalyHeavy, James, Art Geneve, Switzerland
2015
Anonimo, M Building, Miami, FLBrooklyn Museum Artist Ball, Brooklyn, NY
Gold, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
2014
NADA Art Fair, Miami, FL
Miami Project, Kasher|Potamkin Gallery, Miami, FL
Salon NY, De Lorenzo Gallery, New York, NY
barriococo, Royal Society of American Art, Group Show, (curated by Ian Cofre), New York, NY
Gold, Dillion Gallery, New York, NY
NWBLK, New Blood, San Francisco, CA
Texas Contemporary, Special Projects, Houston, TX
Ventura, Design Junction, London, UK
Intangible Beauty: Beautiful Women, Kasher|Potamkin Gallery, New York, NY
Gold, Bass Museum, (curated by Jose Diaz) Miami, FL
Storage Wars, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Good Taste, BofA Center, Houston, TX
Post Psychadellic Dreams, Grey Area, East Hampton, NY
AMMA Studio, Site Unseen Offsite, New York, NY
AMMA Studio Launch, Standard Hotel, New York, NY
2013
Group Show, Kowal+Odermatt, Miami, FLElle Decor Showhouse, Miami, FLSpecial Projects, Scope Show, Miami, FLMiami Project, Eric Firestone Gallery, Miami, FL
Maize y Mas: From Mother to Monster, MACLA, San Jose, CA
2012
EAF 12, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NYConnecting Cultures, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2010
Tondo, FAS Contemporary, London, UK
MS13, Mendes Wood Gallery, Armory Show, New York, NY
2009
Herd Thinner, Charest-Weinberg, (curated by David Hunt), Miami, FL
CHIMERA, Scope Show, (curated by David Hunt) Miami, FLData Panic, Cuchifritos, (curated by Franklin Evans and Amanda Church) New York, NY 2008 Avarice, Mendes Wood Gallery, Basel, SwitzerlandIntransit, Moti Hasson Gallery, (curated by Omar Lopez Chahoud) New York, NYDeadliest Catch: Hamptons, South Hamptons, NYChariker, Foster, Holtz, Mastrangelo, Wright, RHYS Gallery, Boston, MA
2007
Red Badge of Courage, Newark Arts Council, (curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud) Newark, NJ
Eastasia, Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
2005
Waiting for the Barbarians, rare, (curated by David Hunt) New York, NYLe Desert de Retz, Massimo Audiello Gallery, (curated by David Hunt) New York, NYErgonomicon, Consolidated Works, (curated by Casey Keeler) Seattle, WA
2004
MFA Thesis Exhibition, VCU, Richmond, VAPERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Brooklyn Museum, NY
Cooper Hewitt Museum, NYSELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ryan Waddoups, "Patagonian Glaciers Inspire Fernando Mastrangelo's New Drift Collection" Interior Design, May 2016
Hannah Martin, "Dazzle Your Garden With Sparkling Furnishings by Fernando Mastrangelo" Architectural Digest, July 2015
Elaina Ransford "Every New Concept Comes as a Judgment" FLAUNT Magazine, March 2015
Tim McKeough "Fernando Mastrangelo's Striking New Paintings are Made from Salt, Sand and Resin" Architectural Digest, March 2015
Nate Freeman "http://observer.com/2015/03/12-things-to-do-in-new-yorks-art-world-before-march-16/" New York Observer, March 2015
Jenny Che "Miami Beach's Bass Museum of Art Looks at Gold Wall Street Journal, November 2014
JL Schnabel "The Art of Fernando Mastrangelo" Hi Fructose, May 2012
Katy Donoghue, "Fernando Mastrangelo: Black Sculpture", Whitewall Magazine, Nov. 2011
Erin Dyer, "Fernando Mastrangelo" Juxtapoz Magazine, (featured interview) Oct. 2010
Paul Carey-Kent, "London Highlights" Saatchi Online, May 2010
Sandra Smallenburg, "Kunst Dossier", Eigenhuis, May 2010
Artnet.com "Noted at the Armory" March 2010
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, "Contact Project Connects with Fernando Mastrangelo", Contact Project Dec. 2009
Walter Robinson, "A little more on Miami Basel", Artnet.com Dec. 2009
Katy Donoghue, "Thinning the Herd", Whitewall Magazine, Dec. 2009
Wolfgang Ullrich, "Price as the Material of Art", Kunst Magazine Berlin, October 2009
Paddy Johnson, "Artist Rejects Opaque Art", Art Fag City, March 2009
Jared Killeen, "Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs", Dossier Journal, March 2009
Ben Davis, "Twitter Esthetic", Artnet Magazine, March 2009
Emily Warner, "Sweet Sorrow: Fernando Mastrangelo at KUMUKUMU", Bomblog, March 2009
Karen Rosenberg, "Toplessness and Taxidermy in a Bottoming Market, New York Times, March 2009
Richard Johnson, "NARCOTIC ART", New York Post, Page Six, March 2009
Saatchi Online, "Volta Closes on a High" March 2009
Katy Donoghue, "Fernando Mastrangelo at Volta" Whitewall Magazine, March 2009
Benjamin Sutton, "Whatever Remains", L magazine, Feb. 2009
Cara Ober, "Miami Art Fairs - Art Miami & Scope", Baltimore Arts Examiner, Dec. 2008
Sean Smuda, "Art and loathing in Miami" MinnPost.com, Dec. 2008
El Nuevo Herald, "Arte Scope y Art Asia: dos imponderables durante Art Basel", Dec. 2008
Ben Davis, "Miami Madness", Artnet NY, Dec. 2008
Nick A. Zaino III, "Take Five" Boston Globe, Feb. 2008
Sasha Lee, "Miami Art Fair Report" Beautiful Decay, Dec. 2007
Dan Bischoff, "Exhibits Showcase Newark Artists" The Star Ledger, Nov. 2007
David Cohen, Seed, Artworld Digest, April 2007
Brian Sherwin, myartspace.com Interview with Fernando Mastrangelo 2007
Scope Art Fair, Hamptons, Catalog, 2006
Diedre Stien Greben, "A much broader Scope" Newsday, July 2006 (article for Scope Hamptons project)
Ken Johnson, New York Times "Art Listing" January 2006
"de fato interviews Fernando Mastrangelo" De Fato Brumadinho, Brazil, May 2005
Regina Hackett, "Lively 'Ergonomicon' plumbs environments awash in fantasy" Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 2005
Sculpture Magazine 2004 Outstanding Student in Contemporary Sculpture Award October 2004 pg. 54
Gregory Volk, "The Class of 2004" MFA Thesis Exhibition Catalogue Richmond VA, May 2004
Paulette Roberts-Pullen, "Let the show begin" Style Weekly Richmond VA, May 2004
D. Dominick Lombardi, "Students, Teachers, and Mentors" New York Times, March 2004
Pete Humes, "Sculpting a reputation for the extraordinary" Richmond Times-Dispatch, May 2003
