In “Sequence and Flux,” Andrea Ferrigno’s upcoming show at the Cyrus M. Running Gallery at Concordia College, the artist brings bright colors and defined shapes together in exploration and experimentation, aiming to reconcile a scientific worldview and the complexity of lived experience through her art.
"Art creates space for alternative ways of knowing and communicating my experience of being in the world, immersed in and made of interconnected phenomena,” Ferrigno said. “It is a space disinterested in proving facts or ideologies, but I aim to open up new possibilities and forms of thought, vision, and understanding of experience.”
Ferrigno was born in Des Moines, Iowa. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa, where she was awarded the Mildred Pelzner-Lynch fellowship, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Kansas City Art Institute.
She has exhibited her paintings, prints, pencils, and work in other media nationally and internationally at the American University of Paris, Mount Mary University in Milwaukee, Knox College, and in group exhibitions at Blue Mountain Gallery, The Painting Center, and Site: Brooklyn, all in New York, the Peoria Riverfront Museum, Peoria, Illinois, the St. Louis Artists’ Guild, and the Figge Museum, Davenport, Iowa.
She was awarded the Helen Longmire Prize for her work “Turning Time” at the St. Louis Artists’ Guild. Her work has been published in Art Maze Magazine, New American Paintings, Studio Visit, and Visual Overture, and her writing has been published in the Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art.
Ferrigno’s paintings are held in various public and private collections, notably Fidelity Investments and the American University of Paris.
She has been an invited artist in residence at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, DRAWinternational in Caylus, France, and was a summer 2025 resident at Relais Camont, France. She is an ongoing lecturer in the summer program at the American University of Paris.
Ferrigno is currently the chair and associate professor of art at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, her primary residence.
“Painting opens up new spaces of thought and allows both the maker and viewer to move through time in nonlinear ways,” she said.
“Sequence and Flux” will be at the Running Gallery Tuesday, Oct. 7, through Sunday, Nov. 16, with a public reception from 4-5:30 p.m. and artist’s remarks at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7.
The gallery begins in the skyway that connects the Olin Art and Communications Center with the second floor of the Frances Frazier Comstock Theatre building at Concordia College, Moorhead. It is open from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 1-4 p.m. Sundays.
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