Gerald Ruggiero
Gerald has been recognized as a working American Modernist printmaker and painter. Gerald was trained as an Artist at the City College of New York receiving a Bachelor's in Fine Art. He also minored in secondary education. There he received two awards for his work in the CCNY art department. The "Colonial Dames Award" for the Viet Nam era veteran with the highest scholastic average and the "Prince Philip Award of the Royal Society of Arts" for his paintings and drawings. He began his professional career in New York as a commercial artist. He also taught fine art in New York City schools. Over the years Gerald also studied the human form at the National Academy of Design under the tutelage of Mary Beth McKenzie and the modern Landscape with Douglas Fryer. He also treasures the time spent with painter Johanna Harmon, one of his very favorite artists. Gerald has had numerous successful exhibits around the country and his work and methods have been featured in national.
Latest Publication:
- Winter 2017 Edition of "Drawing Magazine" showing my monotype process.
Recent study:
- of the human form at the National Academy of Art and Design in New York City. (Mary Beth McKenzie)
Prior study:
- Coppini Academy of Art, San Antonio, Texas. (Johanna Harmon)
- City College of New York, Major: Classical Art (minor: Secondary Education) (Joseph Solman, Louise Nevelson, George Segal)
Contemporary influence:
- Joseph Solman, Markus Rothkowitz aka Mark Rothko, Louis Shanker, Ilya Bolotowsky, Adolf Gotlieb
Gerald Ruggiero was born in 1946 in the Bronx, New York.
Gerald took an entry level Commercial Art position at Photo Lettering, creating paste-ups and mechanicals for point of purchase. advertising. He returned to the City College of New York and continued his formal art training.
His courses included Illustration/Commercial Art, Painting, Printmaking. Drawing, Design, Sculpture and Art Education courses needed for his minor study in Secondary Education. He was fortunate to have studied with notable artists such as Louise Nevelson, George Segal and others at the college and the National Academy. His greatest inspiration was working with Joseph Solman who was an original member of "The Ten", a group of Expressionists which included Ben-Zion, Ilya Bolotowsky, Adolph Gottlieb, Louis Harris, [Jack] Kufeld, Marcus Rothkowitz [Mark Rothko], Louis Schanker and Joseph Solman. Gerald has had the good fortune to have studied with Mary Beth McKenzie during an extended study at the National Academy of Art and Design in New York.
Gerald has exhibited in several shows over time. Most recently his Monotypes were included in the Salmagundi Clubs 2017 National Juried Exhibit for the second year where he was awarded the Bruce Crane Memorial Award. He had a solo show at the New Art Gallery in Cave Creek Arizona. He had been represented by the Xanadu Gallery in Scottsdale Arizona. Additionally, his work was presented in the Kantor Gallery in Los Angeles and the Old Town Gallery in Los Gatos California. .Additional awards: Silver Medal of the Royal Society of England (Prince Philip Award) , Colonial Dames Award for the Vietnam Era Veteran Artist.
Gerald teaches printmaking at the Scottsdale Artists School.
