Skye Ferrante
Skye Ferrante is a native New Yorker and a former professional ballet dancer. He began sculpting with found objects and other junk-stuff as a child and has since graduated to the higher class dark-annealed steel ty-wire; a medium more commonly used by ironworkers.
In the past year, Mr. Ferrante has exhibited in solo and group shows at London's Bonhams, The Cologne Art Fair, and in Provincetown. He has had works auctioned at Christies, shown at the Spike gallery in Chelsea, and raised tens of thousands of dollars for charity events, including Women's Law Initiative, Linda McCartney's Garland Appeal and The United Cerebral Palsy Fund.
Since 2003, Skye Ferrante has been paying his dues on the streets of downtown Manhattan, selling over ten thousand sculptures to passersby, with pieces now in all fifty States, and well over a dozen countries worldwide.
He lives with his wife, Eleni, and his three year-old daughter, Eugenie, in Soho, where he also keeps his studio.
Skye Ferrante did not go to art school and he believes it shows.
All sculptures are pulled directly off the spool. There are no sketches, and, only on the rare occasions when Mr. Ferrante does run out of wire, the work is continuous.