The work of Bob Pesce is on display in the front window and the gallery this month.
Bob Pesce is a display designer and native New Yorker who mastered the use of a potter’s wheel at age fourteen and hasn’t stopped yet. His undergraduate work at Pratt Institute and the art department at Brooklyn College has led to exhibitions of his pottery and wood sculpture at both institutions as well as a co-op gallery in Brooklyn.
His current series of ceramic pieces center on a fascination with the continuity of the cosmos as seen in the small everyday object . (Think the marbles at the end of “Men in Black”). Organic and sensuous, his pieces evoke whirlpools and flowers among other things. Think of yourself enveloped in a swirling mass of comforting energy and you’ll be right at home with his work.
Professional work includes the Holiday Décor Installations at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the residence of the Vice President (Al Gore), the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, as well as twenty rooms (each room themed in a different fairy tale) at the Lyndhurst Castle in Tarrytown. His work has been published in the book, The Heart of Christmas, as well as the Village Voice, Victorian Homes, The Journal News, Westchester Magazine, and numerous trade magazines and is the basis for the book A Fairy Tale Christmas (Stewart, Tabori and Chang, NYC, a subsidiary of Harry N. Abrams, Inc.).
Bob's work will also be featured at the TOJ Gallery booth at The Modern Show: October 16-18, 2009, 7 W 34th Street at Fifth Avenue, New York City.
