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—and aluminum armature wire, which he now employs for his large works. All his works are made, as a rule, using one continuous strand of wire.
Mr. Ferrante has exhibited in solo and group shows at London's Bonhams, The Cologne Art Fair, and at Alex Beard Studio in SoHo, where he had a sell-out show in July, and again as an encore in December of 2007. 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.
This past April, Mr. Ferrante completed an enormously complex 3 meter, free-standing Tour Eiffel, commissioned by Abbott Laboratories, using a total of 340 meters of continuous aluminum (coincidentally, 340 meters is the actual height of the Eiffel Tower). Constructed in his London studio, the "Impossible Sculpture", as it was billed, premiered in Paris on June 11th at the Palais de Congres. It's final home is set to be in Chicago in the lobby of Abbott Labs corporate headquarters.
In August, Mr. Ferrante was commissioned to do a fine wire portrait of the then Democratic Nominee for President of the United States, Barack Obama. It was presented to him on the 6th of September in New York City.
Mr. Ferrante has, most recently, been travelling extensively for onsite private commissions in Houston, London and Zurich.
A forthcoming biography of the renown jazz bassist, Ron Carter, will feature Mr. Ferrante's jazz portrait.