Salvatore Pecoraro
Salvatore Pecoraro's career as a California artist/teacher spans over five decades. Beginning as a painter in the 60's, his work has always strived to be innovative using the latest techniques and materials in ways that challenged viewers to see obvious things in different ways. Pecoraro's early work evolved from an interest in transmitting light in paintings of the sky to an interest in making constructions that highlight colors, shapes and objects in a spectrum of prisms. Pecoraro, who is of Italian heritage, credits a trip to Italy in 1983 with the idea of creating the wall constructions in marble. This experience exploded into a 14-year quest to combine his painting skills with new exposure to the world of sculpture.
For Pecoraro, issues of architecture, construction and ritual in remembrance of antiquity create the foundation for the ordering of time and space in his sculptural works. He has continued his interest in creating a fractured symmetry of balance and contrast by juxtaposing broken and carved edges with the clean-cut of machined edges. This has led him to produce many floor, pedestal and wall pieces in marble, bronze, cast stone, copper and glass.
When asked about his art Pecoraro recently stated I have always
felt the need to express a contemporary and innovative idea using new materials and technologies that were available. Although this was part of a 20th Century progressiveness, I always had a need to sum up the best parts of thousands of years of art making in a "this century" manner. Like some artists, my work needed continuity to the past, my own past and the present as a kind of validation. I guess one could say my work pays homage to the 20th Century at the moment rather than in retrospect.
Pecoraro's work has been exhibited in museums and galleries nationwide and is part of many corporate, private and public art collections, including the permanent collections of the Oakland, San Jose and La Jolla Museums in California. He has also been commissioned to create monumental freestanding sculptures, fountains and large wall pieces for corporations, private residences and public places.
For more information, contact
Gwenda Joyce/Art & Landscape
707.938.8877 or artandland@hughes.net
www.artandland.com
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