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Tyrome Salvatore Tripoli
114 Wilson Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11237
(718) 552 5600
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BORN: Los Angeles California 1967
EDUCATION:
1986-1990 University of California at San Diego San Diego, CA
Bachelor of Arts, May 1990
Major: Biochemistry and Visual Arts
SUMMARY OF WORK:
2003-Present Living in Brooklyn working full time as mixed media sculptor and architectural
metal designer and builder. Current passion: discovering unlikely relationships
between materials in space. Focus: integrating disparate form.
www.TyromeTripoli.com.
2002-Present Co-founder of VERN -a grass roots, international artist exchange, touring exhibition project. It is an expanding international artist group that collectively organize shows throughout the world
www.Vernpresents.net
1994-Present Melting Point Gallery San Francisco, CA
Co-owner of Melting Point Gallery, Studios and Sculpture Garden, located in the historic Hamm’s Brewery building in the mission district of San Francisco. Melting Point Gallery provides exhibition, performance and event space for hundreds of local Bay Area artists throughout the year. Melting Point Studios consists of fifteen individual artists’ work studios.
1990-Present Owner of Tripoli Designs-Design and build furniture, fixtures, accessories and architectural metal work. The primary focus is metal fabrication, wax sculpting and glass blowing. The majority of work produced includes: beds, dressers, tables, lighting, gates and railing banisters.
www.TripoliDesigns.com.
T. Salvatore. The design and produce a jewelry line using the lost wax casting method.
www.T-Salvatore.com.
ARTIST RESIDENCY:
2001 San Francisco Refuse and Recycle Artist-in-Residence Program. This is a three month, stipend program awarded to 4 artists a year. Each artist is given 24 hour access to a fully equipped workshop and free reign of materials scavenged within the 40 acre refuse sorting facility. During the residency talks are given to the many groups that tour the facility.
www.Norcalwaste.com
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS:
2007 25th Annual BWAC Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, “Still Flying”
An assemblage sculpture made from fastening plastic car bumpers and various other car parts into an undulating form. A temporary exhibition
“Wet Feathers”
Dimensions: 8’Hx15’WLx10’W
2006 24th Annual BWAC Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, “Chasing Rainbows
A flowing form made from 35 stainless steel sinks, meandering from a small black suitcase. This was a temporary exhibition.
“Traveling with everything but the kitchen sink”.
Dimensions: 6’Hx5’Wx12’L
2005 California Department of Transportation commissioned Tripoli to create a sculpture made from roadside refuse that they collected cleaning the roads and highways of California. The piece created was a futuristic, planetary landscape made from hubcaps and a galvanized bucket. This Sculpture continues to tour with the Caltrans Campaign, “Don’t Trash California”.
“Hun Cap Form”
Dimensions: 2’Wx4’Hx6’L
2004 22nd Annual BWAC Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition: Created an assemblage sculpture made from discarded toys and various other pre-existing plastic materials collected off the streets of NYC. It was a temporary exhibition.
“Selfish Gene”
Dimensions: 10’Wx6’Hx40’L
2000 San Francisco Yerba Buena Sculpture Walk: Glass blown into steel armature, pod installation sprouting from a concrete mosaic base submerged beneath the pond. It was a temporary exhibition.
“Papyrus Pod Cluster”
Dimensions: 17’Hx12’Wx10’L
EXHIBITIONS:
- Scope Miami Florida 2007
- “No Wake”, Diesel Gallery, Red Hook New York, Oct.2007
- VERN in Tahoe, Sierra Tahoe College Gallery, Nevada, Oct.2007
- Scope Hamptons NY, Mc Neil Art Group, July 2007
- “Gas” Integrated Negative Space, 55 Mercer Gallery, NY,April 2007
- “Sanchez8”, Hamburg Germany, Opening Sept 23, 2006
- “Hypertexturalities” Florence Lynch Gallery, Opening Sept. 8, 2006
- “TransFormal”, Broadway Gallery, New York, July 2006
- “Vern in Heat”, New York, July 2006
- “Inner Spaces/Outer Limits”,Walker’s Pt Ctr Arts, Milwaukee, March 06
- “Blender” Sundaram Tagore Gallery, February 2006
- “Transvisual”, Organization of Independent Artists, Jan 2006
- “Something Beautiful” Soul Arch Gallery, San Francisco, Dec.10 2005
- “Tiger Rain” Jaxon House Gallery ,Los Angeles, Dec. 8 2005
“Interjacent” Vern in Los Angeles, Oct1 2005
- Rifiutto Riusato Ad Arte, Brescia Italy Oct.8 2005
- “Unrestricted Visions”, Concepto Gallery Brooklyn, Sept.15 2005
- Symposio, Cessalto, Italy June 5 2005
- “Hand Sought” Los Angeles, May 13 2005
- Caltrans Refuse, Melting Point Gallery, San Francisco April 21, 2005
- “Temperature” Artist Network, New York March 18 2005
- “Contrast in Context”55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY Nov. 30 2004
- Pigman Gallery, San Francisco, CA October 2004
- Galleria Maria Cilena, Curator Roberto Peccolo, Milan Italy, Sept. 2004
- Roshambo Winery Gallery, Sonoma CA Sept. 2004
- Gallery @49th, New York, NY, Sept., 2004
- 22nd Annual BWAC Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY 2004
- Canvas Gallery, San Francisco CA, June 2004
- Espejo Gallery, Madrid Spain, May 2004
- Vern at Canvas Gallery, San Francisco, CA, December 2003
- Gallery @49th, New York, NY, November 2003
- Tacheles, Vern is a“Perf 10”, Berlin, Germany, September 2003
- 111 Minna, “Surf Style”, San Francisco, CA, July 2003
- X-Zincografia, “Open Space”, Venice, Italy, June 2003
- Arte Contemporana Genova, “VERN”, Genoa, Italy, May 2003
- Galleria Claudio Ruggieri, “Oil and water” Genoa, Italy, May 2003
- 473 Broadway Gallery, Vern has“Split Dreams”, NY, NY, April 2003
- Museum of Romanian Literature, Bucharest, Romania, March 2003
- SMOVA, Vern at ”The curatorial Eye”,Sonoma CA, Feb. 2003
- Melting Point, Vern is “Order Bipolar” San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2002
- Culture Cache, “Skateboard Show” San Francisco, CA, October 2002
- Urban Lab, ”Explosions”, Chicago, IL, September 2002
- Soap Box Gallery, “Reorganica” Los Angeles, CA, August 2002
- Galleria Pinta puina, “Reorganica” Genoa, Italy, May 2002
- Melting Point Gallery, “Reorganica” San Francisco, CA, April 2002
- San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, San Francisco, CA, March 2002
- San Francisco Refuse and Recycle Artist Residency Exhibition Jan. 2002
- Southern Exposure Gallery “Think Again” San Francisco, CA, Nov. 2001
- Istanbul Bienali, “Re: Duchamp” Travelling Exhibition, Turkey Sept. 2001
- Southern Exposure Gallery, “Post Card show”, SF, CA, June 2001
- Clos Pegase Winery, Calistoga, CA, June 2001
- Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, April 2001
- Auberge du Soleil, Rutherford, Napa, CA 2000-2001
- Garden de Vivre, Melting Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1999
- San Francisco Garden Show, San Francisco, CA 1998
- San Francisco Design Show, San Francisco, CA 1998
- Chicago Design Show, Chicago, IL 1998
- Melting Point Gallery Premiere, San Francisco, CA 1997
- San Francisco Portfolio Group at LIMN, San Francisco, CA 1997
- International Contemporary Furniture Fair, New York, NY 1996
- International Contemporary Furniture Fair, New York, NY 1995
- LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1994
- Clyde Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1994
- LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1993
- Galleria Coltaire Mastaire, San Francisco, CA 1993
- Clyde Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1993
PUBLISHED ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
- The Collection, Summit NJ Chamber of Commerce publication July 2007
- The Brooklyn Eagle, “A Fender Bender, Not Quite”, BWAC Sculpture Show, July 2007
- The Sun, “Taking Flight”, BWAC Sculpture show, July 2007
- IN Brooklyn, “Still Flying”, BWAC Sculpture show, July 2007
- Art News, Scope Hampton, July 2007
- New York Arts Magazine, “Blender” April, 2006
- KROV, channel 3 Sacramento TV, Caltrans campaign, April 21 2005
- Sacramento Bee,“Campaign targets trash on the highways”. April 22 2005
- Artshow.It, Sept. 2004
- Extra Art, Italy, July-Sept 2004
- www.GoBrooklyn.com, July 2004
- Gaden Presents, www.gaden.jp, July 2004
- Long boarder Quarterly, summer issue 2003
- The Bear Deluxe #20, The Art Issue, Fall 2003
- PBS, “Spark,” July 2003
- www.Artmargins.com, June 2003
- Metro Active Art, metractive.com, Feb 2003
- North Bay Bohemian, January 2003
- New Haven Register, September 2002
- San Francisco Chronicle, August 2002
- www.nyartsmagazine.com, November 2001
- Click Magazine, March 2001
- KUSF radio station, April 2000
- San Francisco Chronicle, October 2000
- Yerba Buena Guide, October 2000
- SOMA Magazine, November 1999
- www.casamagazine.com/travel.sanfrancisco.html, Nov.1999
- Design Times, August 1999
- San Francisco Weekly, June 23, 1999
- www.bayarea.citysearch.com, June 10, 1999
- Design Journal, November 1998
- Furniture Style, September 1998
- Cover of San Francisco Design and Furniture Show Directory, July 1998
- www.bayarea.citysearch.com, February 16, 1998
- Custom Woodworking Business, July 1996
- Los Angeles Times, May 11, 1996
- Italian Interni, June 1995
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