About Mike Ferrari

Through a series or fractured images and ideas working together in harmonious conflict, the subjects pictured in these works are ones who embody both beauty and despair. The patterns, found materials, and renderings that surround, backdrop, or interrupt these remnants of our culture and counterculture recreate them in an experience that matches how our own modern generation experiences life - with an undeniable seriousness, but also a bit of kitsch to soften the blow of how vulnerable we really are.

Mike Ferrari was born and raised in New Jersey. He has a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and an MA in painting from Montclair State University. Mike is a high school art teacher in New Jersey and also teaches art courses at the Montclair Art Museum. He lives in Montclair with his wife and two children.