Marcia Gerardi

BIO INFORMATION

Gallery Seven
10 South Broadway
Nyack, NY 10960
845-641-5836
info@marcaigerardi.com

Marcia Gerardi is an accomplished still life commercial and fine art photographer. Her fine art photography evolved from the discipline of running her commercial studio in Manhattan's Chelsea district for 20 years creating cutting edge images for Revlon, Avon, Warner Communications and many more international and national accounts. Working mostly with a large format camera in the studio and on location she created original and form-breaking images that were published in leading print media and TV.

As a fine art photographer Gerardi has been working in the area of digital imaging, transforming her photographic imagery into more personal statements which concentrate on capturing our cultural environment and industrial landscape.

Gerardi is a fine art painter as well, whose work whether figurative or minimal continues to explore our relationships and perceptions to the environment and each other. Her work also includes a series of paintings in a dedication to the victims of 9/11, World Trade Center Disaster.

She has devoted the past decade to actively promoting the arts. In helping to bring art to the fore in the community, she was instrumental in the formation of the Garnerville Arts and Industrial Center and working to help promote and organize the annual GAGA arts festivals, garnervillearts.com. Her curatorial experience includes Dye Works Gallery, Frank Wells Studio, co-currating with Ned Harris for the Rockland Center for the Arts, Imaging Arts Photography Gallery, Tappan, NY, and GAGA, Garnerville, NY.

Gerardi has experience as a teacher, studied and worked in holography and has been a photojournalist for Gannett Publications. Her work has appeared on the pages of national publications such as Vogue, Architectural Digest, W., Elle, House and Garden, National Wildlife Federation, National Geographic, on numerous best seller non-fiction books and featured in international publications in Japan, Qatar, India, Italy, Great Britain and France. She is in private collections, has been in numerous solo and group shows including, Rockland Center for the Arts, GAGA Gallery, Imaging Arts, Tappan, NY, the Museum of Modern Art*, Upstream Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY, Hopper House, Nyack, NY and Beckwith Gallery, Jamaica, VT,. This past fall Gerardi was a participating artist in a juried exhibit to benefit Hospice of Rockland where she was the curator for the final fundraising exhibit.

Gerardi's most recent works include her Acrylic Image Constructions.
The pieces have a three dimensional looking image on clear film mounted in front of a traditional photograph. The clear image which has been digitally manipulated is mounted on clear plexi and is attached to the main image so as to appear to float in front as it hangs on the wall. When viewed from different perspectives the images play with one's perceptions inviting the viewer to make his/her own discoveries in relation to time, space and reality.

 

*The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Exhibitions of Photographs/LIFE OF THE CITY.
February 28-May 21, 2002.