George Ferrandi SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES 2006 "Team Cinders" Group Exhibition Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC 2005 "Mark the Line: National Drawing Invitational Group Exhibition Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA, "In Lieu of Flowers" solo exhibition at Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, NY "The Porch Show" group exhibition at Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, NY "I Find You" group exhibition of drawings at Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn NY 2004 "Rent-to-Own" group exhibition at Virginia Commonwealth University, Ribhmond, VA "little might big" exhibition of three artists at Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, NY "Terrible Danger Ahead" group exhibition at the Pelham Arts Center, Pelham, NY curated by Elizabeth Saperstein "Summer DrawingsÉand Some Are Not," Mixture Contemporary, Houston, TX "a tracing in lighter colors" solo performance at Columbia University, New York, NY "Home" group exhibition at the DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Bruce Brown) 2003 "Killer Instinct" exhibition of fake game stills at the New Museum, New York, NY (curated by Brody Condon) "Miraculous: Contemporary Exvotos Paintings" group exhibition at ChezTGN, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Trong Nguyen) "Snowbirds and Streetfights" the Bower Gallery, San Antonio, TX, (two person show curated by Michael Vellaquette) "Ghosts" site specific installation at 51 Third Gallery, Troy, NY (curated by Igor Vamos) 2002 "a tracing in lighter colors" solo performance at: Chashama Theater, New York, NY (curated by Sxip Shirey) Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA "Fabricate More" live musical with Cloud Seeding Circus performed at: The Kitchen, New York, NY Chashama Theater, New York, NY 2001 "True Life Agnes" solo exhibition/ installation at Museo Italo-Americano, San Francisco, CA "A Tracing in Lighter Colors" solo performance at Seen & Heard: the Atlanta Women's Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA (curated by Martha Donovan and Deidra Currie) "Go West, Young Monkey" National Tour with Cloud Seeding: Circus of the Performative Object. 2000 "East of the Mississippi Premier" Tour with Cloud Seeding: Circus of the Performative Object. "How Bears Understand Boundaries: Thursdays and Basic Engineering" - live performance with Cloud Seeding Circus at the Harn Museum in conjunction with University of Florida Faculty Exhibition, Gainesville, FL "Construction of Central Alliance" - performance and video installation with Cloud Seeding Circus in conjunction with Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY 1999 "Post-Post Card Show" - Four Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Mostra 99" - Museo Italo-Americano, San Francisco, CA "Never to Forget" - Night Parade with Cloud Seeding Circus, Gainesville, FL "Giant's Camp: Skirt Circus" - Site-specific performance with Cloud Seeding Circus, Gibsonton, FL "Materials, Substance, Form: To Last Or Not To Last" - Pyramid Art Center, Rochester, NY "Shared Roots" - Site-Specific installation at the Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA "Office: pacing. the delicate. breaking." - Site-specific installation and performance in conjunction with the 34th Annual Faculty Exhibition, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 1998 "A Skowhegan Decade" - David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY "the air (between) to say almost." Site-specific installation in conjunction with 33rd Annual Faculty Exhibition, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 1997 "Shaine-Dig 9"- Art event at the Depot, Gainesville, FL, curated by Shaine McDonald "One Thing in Common" - 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA, curated by Joe Seipel "Intelligent Life: 5 Installation Artists" - Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH "Call You-r Hero" - Site-specific public project, Richmond, VA 1996 "Regional Artists Biennial" - Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, ID, curated by Bob Schroeder "Little Lovely" - Installation at Lincoln National Corporation, Fort Wayne, ID "Three Phoities in a Night of Light" - University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI "Stampede." - Thesis Installation at the Carriage House, Columbus,OH 1995 "Ariel: An Argument with Plath" Installation at the Carriage House, Columbus, OH "Bridge to Jhi-Yun" - Installation on Lake Wesserunsett, Skowhegan, ME "Big Ten Annual Exhibition" - Conference Center, Chicago, IL "Today's Special" - Juried Film Festival at the Wexner Center for Contemporary Arts Columbus, OH, juried by Ron Greene "Select Screening with Scott MacDonald" - James River Festival, Richmond, VA "Fifty Works" - Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH 1994 "George's Art Exorcism" - Ringside Gallery, Richmond, VA 1993 "New Artists, New Works II." - James Center, Richmond, VA "VCU/INK" - Traveling exhibition of prints organized by Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA "Juried Annual Exhibition" - Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA "The George and Alan Show" - S. A. S. Gallery, Richmond, VA "Clearance Sale" - Zeuss Gallery. Richmond, VA "Big Muddy Film Festival" - Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL Awards and Honors 2004 Commission, Shands Hospital, Gainesville, FL Featured Artist at Richmond VirginiaÕs "Tomato Festival" Featured Collector at the City Reliquary, Brooklyn, NY 2001 Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art Grant Recipient 2000 Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art Grant Recipient (Cloud Seeding: Circus of the Performative Object) 1999 Modesto Lanzone Mostra 99 Winner (Best in Show) Museo Italo-Americano, San Francisco, CA Scholarship Enhancement Grant, University of Florida Project Sponsorship, University Scholars Program, UF 1998 Scholarship Enhancement Grant, University of Florida 1996 International Sculpture Center Student Award, Sculpture Magazine Edith Fergus Gilmore Materials Award, Ohio State University 1995 Summer Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Edith Fergus Gilmore Materials Award, Ohio State University 1994 Nationally Selected Graduate Fellowship, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Lauren Woods Scholarship, VCU Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society University Scholarship, VCU Chapter, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Soc Jose Puig Faculty Selected Outstanding Senior Award, Sculpture Department, Virginia Commonwealth Univ. American Committee on Italian Migration, Regionally Selected Scholarship National Italian ÐAmerican Foundation National Scholarship Liquitex Excellence in Materials Grant, Binney and Smith Inc. Mural Commission and Honorarium, MayorÕs Advisory Council on Art and Culture, Baltimore, MD Bibliography Holland Cotter, "Art in Review," The New York Times September 30, 2005 p. E36 Janon Fisher, "After Saints Preserve Us, She Returns the Favor," The New York Times August 1, 2005 p. B3 Ainsley O'Connell, "A Savior to the Saints," Newsday August 8, 2005 p. A12 Holland Cotter, "Add the Fireflies and ItÕs a Summer Idyll,"The New York Times July 13, 2005 p. E1 Dee Hill, Freaks and Fire, SoftSkull Press, 2005 Ben La Roco, "Artseen," The Brooklyn Rail, April,2004, p.12 Lee Herring, "Running Away with the Circus," University of Florida Alumni Magazine "Two Boys and a Girl Run Away with the Circus," Journal of Undergraduate Research, University of Florida. Tim Lockette, 'Unusual Circus Begins Tour in Gainesville," Gainesville Sun July 30 2000 A1 Lyn Oxyer "Council Planting the Seeds for Arts Revival at Square Fair," Lima News August 6 2000 p. 14 "Traveling Performance Art Circus to Set up in OU parking Lot," Athens News August 7 2000 p. 14 "Talk of the Town," Creative Loafing August 26, 2000