Jerry Carniglia (1946–2015) was a naval sailor, a founding member of two Bay Area theater companies, and a furniture-maker before becoming an artist. He won admission to the UC Berkeley Fine Arts Department, where he received the James Phelan Award and the Eisner prize, graduating with an M.F.A. in 1993. Over the next 22 years, he created five series of works. Between carpentry and painting, Jerry had nine solo exhibitions, at least 19 collaborative shows, won seven grants and prizes, and had his work selected for the permanent collections at the San Francisco de Young Fine Arts Museum and Berkeley Art Museum. His work incorporated many techniques, drawing from abstract expressionist and Baroque sensibilities.
Discipline:
Visual Art – painting
Jerry Carniglia
Discipline:
Visual Art – painting
Region: Emeryville, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2008
More:
www.jerrycarniglia.com
Studios
Heinz
Jerry Carniglia worked in the Heinz studio.
The icehouse, built of fieldstone in 1914–1915, was a practical part of Marian MacDowell’s plan for a self-sufficient farm. Winter ice cut from a nearby pond was stored here for summer use on the property. Idle since 1940, it was a handsome but outdated farm building. In 1995, Mrs. Drue Heinz, a vice chairman…