Stephen Palermo
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Stephen Palermo
Stephen “Steve” Palermo (April 15, 1932 – December 31, 2015) was an American artist and fashion and fabric designer. Palermo was one of the thirty founding members of the Noho Gallery in New York City, New York, where he exhibited his fabric design work.
Biography:
Stephen Palermo received a BFA in Fashion Design from the Philadelphia Museum College of Art in Pennsylvania in 1958. Between 1958 and 1959, he continued Advanced Studies in Fashion Design at the Ecole Superieur de la Couturiere Parisienne in Paris, France. In 1961, he received a diploma in French Language studies from the University of the Sorbonne in Paris. Palermo also attended the U.S. Army Radar School in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, where he received a diploma in Guided Missile Electronic Repair in 1955.
Palermo resided with his wife, Grete, in New York City in an apartment on the Lower East Side of 123 Second Avenue until 2014. In 2014, the couple moved to Land’s End in Kennebunkport, Maine.
Work:
From 1956 to 1957, Palermo worked as a designer and pattern-maker for Sun Clothes Division, Jantzen International, based in Portland, Oregon. From 1958 to 1961, he freelanced as a fashion and fabric designer for high end dress manufacturers in Europe, such as Leonard et Cie, Bianchini-Ferier, Samuels et Cie. He returned to New York in 1961 to serve as Pattern and Production Manager of the International Rubber Corp., which operated out of Puerto Rico. In 1963, he accepted the position of Quality Control technician at J.C. Penny Co., also in New York City.
Immersed in the wake of artistic movements such as abstract expressionism and conceptualism in New York City in the 1960s and 1970s, Palermo experimented predominantly in non-figural painting and mixed-media sculpture. His large-scale, marbled color abstractions represent his most ambitious work as a fine artist. These abstractions followed in the traditions of artists like Jackson Pollock and Helen Frankenthaler and were created by pouring and then marbleizing acrylic and industrial paint and enamels directly on stretched canvas. Palermo’s work can be categorized as following in the traditions of abstract expressionism, Color field painting and lyrical abstraction.
Palermo was a founding member of the Noho Gallery in New York City, which opened in 1975. [1] [2]The Noho Gallery was originally located in north Houston Street in New York City and represents one of the oldest artist cooperative galleries in New York. [3] In addition to Palermo, founding members included Ira Horowitz, Hy Bush, Rebecca Cooperman, Margot Robinson (founder), Robert Perrault, Paul Singer, Jean Creighton, Erma Martin Yost, Janet Bosse, George Beauchamp, Irene Peslikis, Gladys Brodsky, Jan Gelb, Kate Millett, Juliet Leff, Elizabeth Lienau Blumenthal, Libby Robinson, Tom Rose, Joe Woods, Tom Laidman, Jeannie Smith Williams, Carl Grassini, Dorothy Hayes, Pedro Fracaso, Olga Sheirr, Robert Civello, Bob Ebers, J. Gary Kornmayer, and Adele Seronde.
External links:
Wigglesworth, Shelley. “Remembering Stephen and Grete Palermo.” Kennebunk Conservation Trust. Published 2022. Accessed July 2022. https://www.kporttrust.org/remembering-stephen-and-grete-palermo
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