TYROME TRIPOLI

SUMMARY OF WORK:

2003-Present:
At the present, I live in New York City pursuing a career as an artist, designer and sculptor.   My current passion is creating art from ordinary objects and transformed materials.
www.TyromeTripoli.com

2002-Present:       
I co-founded a grass root, international artist exchange, touring exhibition project known as VERN .   It is an expanding international artist collective that creates opportunity for grass roots artists to show outside their domain.   Currently, I am energizing the perpetuation of this evolving exhibition.   www.Vernpresents.net                        

1994-Present:                       
Melting Point Gallery San Francisco, CA
I am co-owner of Melting Point Studios, Gallery and Sculpture Garden, located in the historic Hamm's Brewery building in the mission district of San Francisco. I co-curate four to six gallery shows a year, focusing on local Bay Area visual artists.   Melting Point Studios includes managing fifteen individual artists' studios.

1990-Present:            
I am the owner, metal sculptor and designer of Tripoli Designs . We design and build finely crafted furniture, fixtures and accessories. My focus is metal fabrication, wax sculpting and glass blowing.   The majority of work produced includes: beds, dressers, tables, lighting, gates and railing banisters.
www.TripoliDesigns.com  

I produce a line of jewelry called T. Salvatore.
The designs are created using the lost wax casting method.
www.T-Salvatore.com

ARTIST RESIDENCY:

2001:            
San Francisco Recycle and Disposal Artist-in-Residence Program. This is a three month, stipend program awarded to 4 artists a year. Each artist is provided with a fully equipped workshop, an open account to buy supplementing supplies, tools and free reign of materials scavenged within the 40 acre refuse sorting facility.   During the residency I gave several talks to the many groups that toured the facility.

www.Norcalwaste.com

EXHIBITIONS:

Forthcoming:

•  Hamburg "meets Vern", Germany, Sept. 8, 2005

•  Rifiutto Riusato ad arte, Roe Volciano, Brescia Italy Oct. 8, 2005

•  Vern in Los Angeles, Oct.1, 2005

•  Vern meets Milwaukee Wisconsin, April 2006

•  New York and Vern, July 2006                           

Past:

•  Symposio, Cessalto, Italy June 5 2005

•  "Hand Sought" Los Angeles, May 13 2005

•  Caltrans Refuse, Melting Point Gallery, San Francisco April 21, 2005

•  "Temperature" Artist Network, New York March 18 2005

•  "Contrast in Context"55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY Nov. 30 2004

•  Pigman Gallery, San Francisco, CA October 2004

•  Galleria Maria Cilena, Curator Roberto Peccolo, Milan Italy, Sept. 2004

•  Roshambo Winery Gallery, Sonoma CA Sept. 2004

•  Gallery @49 th , New York, NY, Sept., 2004

•  22 nd Annual BWAC Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY 2004

•  Canvas Gallery, San Francisco CA, June 2004

•  Espejo Gallery, Madrid Spain, May 2004

•  Vern at Canvas Gallery, San Francisco, CA, December 2003

•  Gallery @49 th , New York, NY, November 2003

•  Tacheles, Vern is a" Perf 10 ",   Berlin, Germany, September 2003

•  111 Minna, "Surf Style", San Francisco, CA, July 2003

•  X-Zincografia, "Open Space", Venice, Italy, June 2003

•  Arte Contemporana Genova, "VERN", Genoa, Italy, May 2003

•  Galleria Claudio Ruggieri, "Oil and water" Genoa, Italy, May 2003

•  473 Broadway Gallery, Vern has" Split Dreams ", NY, NY, April 2003

•  Museum of Romanian Literature, Bucharest, Romania, March 2003

•  SMOVA, Vern at "The curatorial Eye",Sonoma CA, Feb. 2003

•  Melting Point, Vern is "Order Bipolar" San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2002

•  Culture Cache, "Skateboard Show" San Francisco, CA, October 2002

•  Urban Lab, "Explosions", Chicago, IL, September 2002

•  Soap Box Gallery, "Reorganica" Los Angeles, CA, August 2002

•  Galleria Pinta puina, "Reorganica" Genoa, Italy, May 2002

•  Melting Point Gallery, "Reorganica" San Francisco, CA, April 2002

•  San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, San Francisco, CA, March 2002

•  San Francisco Refuse and Recycle Artist Residency Exhibition Jan. 2002

•  Southern Exposure Gallery "Think Again" San Francisco, CA, Nov. 2001

•  Istanbul Bienali, "Re: Duchamp" Travelling Exhibition, Turkey Sept. 2001

•  Southern Exposure Gallery, "Post Card show", SF, CA, June 2001

•  Clos Pegase Winery, Calistoga, CA, June 2001

•  Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, April 2001

•  Auberge du Soleil, Rutherford, Napa, CA 2000-2001

•  Garden de Vivre, Melting Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1999

•  San Francisco Garden Show, San Francisco, CA 1998

•  San Francisco Design Show, San Francisco, CA 1998

•  Chicago Design Show, Chicago, IL 1998

•  Melting Point Gallery Premiere, San Francisco, CA 1997

•  San Francisco Portfolio Group at LIMN, San Francisco, CA 1997

•  International Contemporary Furniture Fair, New York, NY 1996

•  International Contemporary Furniture Fair, New York, NY 1995

•  LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1994

•  Clyde Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA   1994

•  LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1993

•  Galleria Coltaire Mastaire, San Francisco, CA 1993

•  Clyde Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA   1993

PUBLISHED ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

•  KROV, channel 3 Sacramento TV, Caltrans campaign, April 21 2005

•  Sacramento Bee," Campaign targets trash on the highways" . April 22 2005

•  Artshow.It, Sept. 2004

•  Extra Art, Italy, July-Sept 2004

•  www.GoBrooklyn.com , July 2004

•  Gaden Presents, www.gaden.jp , July 2004

•  Long boarder Quarterly,   summer issue 2003

•  The Bear Deluxe #20, The Art Issue, Fall 2003

•  PBS, "Spark," July 2003

•  www.Artmargins.com, June 2003

•  Metro Active Art, metractive.com, Feb 2003

•  North Bay Bohemian , January 2003

•  New Haven Register , September 2002

•  San Francisco Chronicle , August 2002

•  www.nyartsmagazine.com, November 2001

•  Click Magazine , March 2001

•  KUSF radio station, April 2000

•  San Francisco Chronicle , October 2000

•  Yerba Buena Guide , October 2000

•  SOMA Magazine , November 1999

•  www.casamagazine.com/travel.sanfrancisco.html, Nov.1999

•  Design Times , August 1999

•  San Francisco Weekly , June 23, 1999

•  www.bayarea.citysearch.com, June 10, 1999

•  Design Journal , November 1998

•  Furniture Style , September 1998

•  Cover of San Francisco Design and Furniture Show Directory , July 1998

•  www.bayarea.citysearch.com, February 16, 1998

•  Custom Woodworking Business , July 1996

•  Los Angeles Times , May 11, 1996

•  Italian Interni , June 1995