Peter Scaturro

BIOGRAPHY                                   PETER SCATURRO

2024 - Group Show. 3 abstract ceramic / high fired sculptures. Acumen Wine / Gallery, Napa, Ca.

2023 - Mini Masterpieces. Group Show.  Napa Valley Museum. Yountville, Ca.

2021 - Bellissimo! Contemporary Italian American Artists exhibition. Village Theatre Art Gallery, Danville, Ca. 8-19-2021 to 10-14-2021

2020 -21 de Young Museum Open exhibition. San Francisco, Ca.

2019 - 5 paintings published in Canadian art and literature magazine ArtAscent.

2019  Museo ItaloAmericano, Fort Mason, San Francisco. Permanent Collection Exhibition. 

2017  Pop Up exhibit in the home and  among the collection of Dr. Peter Selz, Berkeley, Ca He was the founding director of the Berkeley Art Museum and is Professor Emeritus of UC Berkeley, author and curator. June 10.

2017  Palace of the Legion of Honor acquired by donation a pen and ink for their Achenbach Foundation.

2017  Article about me/my work in the NapaValley Life Magazine - Summer

2016  Exhibit in the  group show 'Non-Ob' at the Blue Line Gallery

2016 -2017 - 2018 - 2019  Open Studio weekends at my studio.

2015 Springfield Art Museum, MO. Watercolor USA 2015. 2 paintings accepted. One painting was used on the cover for the museum catalogue as well as for banners and postcard invitations.
 
2014  ' Presence in Abstraction '  Museo Italo Americano  San Francisco  2 person show.

De Witt Cheng  - Curator of the Stanford Art Spaces posted this comment on Face Book  "Abstract Expressionis Peter Scaturro's watercolor's have the weight and intensity of oils with great color harmony....his ceramic's as well"

2012  'Minatures'  Group Exhibition at Napa Valley Museum.

2012 My paintings continue to be represented at SFMOMA Artist Gallery ,Ft.Mason, San Francisco.

2011-12  Working on 3 new series;  'Presence' (watercolor) and 'Orion Monoliths' and 'Offering' (ceramic/mixed media sculpture)

2010  I was one  in The Napa Valley Museums' exhibit '4 ON FORM' , Jan 23 - Feb 28, 2010 . My sculptures and paintings were represented.  4 ON FORM FORUM  discussion with artists.  January 30, 2010

2009  Kenneth Baker, Art Critic for the a painting of mine with a notice of my solo show @ the Concourse Gallery @ 555 California Street, San Francisco in the Bank of America building San Francisco Chronicle, chose to publish in the Sunday July 26^th, 2009 Datebook and on SFGate.Com.

2009   A ceramic sculpture of mine was juried into the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art Biennial 2009, September 5- November 29. Susan Cummins, Frances McCormack and Michael Schwager were the valued jurors. I was also invited to participate in 'Art Dish', a panel of 4 artists in dialogue with Kate Eilerstsen, the Director of SVMA .

2009  My  solo exhibit at the Museo ItaloAmericano, March 5 - May 3, 2009,  was a benchmark of my history of exhibiting with the Museo since its location in North Beach in the early '80's. This exhibit of painting and sculpture was the largest to date in my career. The Italian American heritage has been a strong influence in my career as an artist. My great uncle Ignazio Scaturro authored a two volume history 'Storia di Sicilia' as well as a two volume history 'Storia della Citta di Sciacca' ,1924-26, which is where the Scaturro family came from. This is one of the few definitive histories of medieval Sciacca to date.

I met with Mr. Peter Selz and Robert Whyte at my exhibiton at the Museo. Peter Selz is Professor Emeritus in the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley and founding Director of the University Art Museum in Berkeley. In 2006 his book, Art Of Engagement: Visual Politics of California, co-authored with Dr. Susan Landauer, Chief Curator of the San Jose Museum of Art was published. Mr. Robert White , Curator Emeritus of the Museo Italo Americano and former Director of Education at the San Francisco Museum of Art for 20 years. The meeting and dialogue was deeply affirmative of the work in the exhibit and future collaboration is projected. They continue to be  advocates of my work.

The Museo nominated my work in ceramic sculpture and painting in (May 2007) for the Fleishacker Foundation's, Eureka Fellowship . The Museo  ItaloAmericano acquired a 2 watercolors and a ceramic sculpture of mine for their permanent collection in 2003-04 and 2018.  The collection includes the work of internationally known artist's such as Francesco Clemente, John Grillo, Giorgio DeChirico, Mark Disuvero, and Arnaldo Pomodoro. The collection represents one hundred years of painting, sculpture, works on paper, mosaics and frescoes. 2001 six ceramic sculpture's of mine were selected along with 4 other Italian American artist's work in a national juried exhibition put on by the Museo called Mostra 2001: Clay and Glass.

 2008 I had a solo exhibit at Folio Winemaker's Studio in Napa, Ca. which is owned and operated by the Michael Mondavi family.

2008 six of my images were selected by the Rene di Rosa Art and Nature Preserve in Napa, Ca. to be shown at their SlideSlam multi- screen show event. The di Rosa Preserve boasts the largest collection of northern California fine art.

2006 my watercolor's were awarded First Prize in the International H2O Color Competition created by www.artrom.com based in Rome.

2005 a watercolor, titled 'InterBeing', was chosen along with 59 other artist's, out of a field of 380, in a national juried competition by the San Francisco Chronicle's art critic Kenneth Baker to be in the "Contemporary Abstractions" exhibition in August at the Alameda Art Center in Alameda, Ca.

Beth Dungan, PhD/ History of Art, UC Berkeley, Guest Curator, Berkeley Art Museum wrote about my work;

" Your work in the Alameda, (Ca.) " Contemporary Abstractions " show (Aug. 2005) is dazzling. Your work is strong and very compelling on a number of fronts. I appreciate your complex use of colors, as well as the relationships between abstraction and the suggestion of figuration which your work provides. I am impressed by and excited about your art."

2005 my work was nominated to the San Francisco MOMA -Seca Award competition by the Museo ItaloAmericano. SFMOMA Artist's Gallery in San Francisco continue to sell my paintings to private collectors. Larry and Brennie Brackett, owners of Frank Howard Allen Realtors have purchased a set of digital prints for their home in northern Ca. The General Manager of Hilton Hotels in San Francisco had a set of prints made for his office. Art Broker's Inc. of Sausalito, Ca. reproduce and market the high definition digital prints of my work.

 2005, as well, I had a solo show of my watercolor's and ceramic sculpture at the Barefoot Art Gallery in Mill Valley, Ca
The years of 2001-04 were particularly productive years concentrating on painting and sculpture. My work was in a few noteworthy group shows of gallery artist's at Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, Ca.

In the late 90's my work in pastel was awarded the thousand dollar prize at the Marin Art Festival by Robert F. Johnson, Chief Curator, for the Achenbach Foundation at the Palace of Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco.

Corporate acquisition's of my work have included Macy's who purchased 12 original works on paper and reproduced them for 44 store in three states.