About

Artist profile

Plein air landscape oil painter, Frank Ferrante, graduated Rutgers University, B.S. Marketing. He began his creative career producing educational programs for industry and spent many years in the advertising industry. He also studied fine art, design and composition at The Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts. It was not until later in his career while studying oil painting with John Phillip Osborn at the Ridgewood Art Institute, that he decided to concentrate his oil painting skills to traditional painting techniques based on methods handed down to his teacher’s teacher, the American Impressionist, Frank Vincent DuMond and his Circa. 1880 Prismatic Palette. It was at this time that he devoted all of his efforts learning to capture the prismatic flow from light to shadow, atmosphere, weather and time of day…in his year - round outdoor (plein air) oil sessions. These quick oil sketches form the basis for larger studio paintings. 

Art Associations

  • The Artist's Workshop, New Smyrna Beach, FL

  • The HUB on Canal, New Smyrna Beach, FL

  • The Art league of Daytona Beach, Daytona Beach, FL

  • The Ringwood Manor Association of the Arts, Ringwood, NJ

  • Community Arts Association, Allendale, NJ

  • The Ridgewood Art Institute, Ridgewood, NJ

  • The Allied Artists of America , Inc, NY

  • American Artist Professional League, NY

  • New Jersey Society of En Plein Air Artists, NJ

  • Hudson Valley Art Association, NY

  • The Gifted and Talented Education Program, Montclair State University, NJ

  • Clifton Arts Association, NJ

  • Beaufort Art Association, SC

Art Galleries/awards

·       Broadmore Galleries, Colorado Springs, CO 2015

·       The Art on Centre, Amelia Island, FL 2016

·       Reef Gallery, Key Largo, FL 2016

·       HUB on Canal Gallery, New Smyrna Beach, FL 2015

·       The Fountainside Gallery, Wilmington, NC, 2011

·       The Ridgewood Art Institute, NJ:        

·                  Eugene Haldeman Award for Best Seascape 2010

·                  Best in Show,Arthur F. Maynard Award for Atmospheric Effect 2007

·                  NJ Frame & Molding Award,2006

·                  Grumbacher Gold Medal Award, 2003

·       Fredlund Gallery, Winter Park Fl 2009

·       Hudson Valley Art Association, NY 2009

·       Frank C.Wright Memorial Award

·       The Westwood Gallery, Westwood NJ 2008

·       The Moorman’s Gallery, Mendham, NJ 2008 

·       Boi’s of New Hope Gallery, New Hope, PA 2007

·       Juried Salon International 2005

·       Greenhouse Gallery of Fine Arts, San Antonio, TX

·       Kertesz Fine Art Gallery, San Francisco,CA 2004

·       William Ris Gallery, Stone Harbor, NJ 2004

·       Ringwood Manor Assoc. of the Arts, Ringwood, NJ 2003,First Place, Oil