ARTIST STATEMENT
My eye never sleeps...
I paint the abstract language of colors, forms, and shapes that my eye visualizes, using bold colors to provoke a feeling or sensation that engages the viewer in an emotional exchange with the work.

Bill Santelli's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States, including the DOSHI Gallery of the Susquehanna Art Museum in Harrisburg, PA; the Rochester Museum and Science Center, Strasenburgh Planetarium and Oxford Gallery in Rochester, NY; the Salmagundi Club Galleries and the Organization of Independent Artists in NYC; the Shelnutt Gallery at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY; Leon Loard Gallery, Montgomery, AL; Westwood Center for the Arts in Los Angeles, CA; and Jordan Road Gallery, in Sedona, AZ.

In addition, his work is in corporate and private collections, including those of XLI Corporation, Rochester, NY; MedImmune, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD; Information Technology Association of America, Arlington, VA; Maxtor Corporation, Longmont, CO; Hale and Dorr, Boston, MA; the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Rochester, NY; Advest Inc., Hartford, CT; and Tecton, PC, Architects, Hartford, CT.

Mr. Santelli is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including two residency grants to the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT.

"Reproductions of any kind do little justice to Bill Santelli's beautiful and complex paintings... Beautifully executed, Santelli's paintings explore extreme contrasts in color, shape and edge... His titles support the view that these are inner meditations"

Judith Reynolds,
City Newspaper,
Rochester, NY

2010 Award of Merit winner
State College, PA- Bill Santelli of Rochester, New York was recently selected as an Award of Merit winner at Images 2010, the annual fine art and craft exhibition sponsored by the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts with the cooperation of The Pennsylvania State University. His colored pencil piece, The Path 1, (see image below) earned him the honor. His winning piece was chosen out of the 69 works in the Images exhibition.

Now in its 20th year, Images 2010 is well known as a showplace for high-quality contemporary fine art and craft in the media of printmaking, painting, photography, watercolor and sculpture. In 2007 the exhibition’s eligibility was broadened to include the fine craft media of ceramics. This summer’s exhibition features works created within the past three years and was open to artists and craftspeople living in Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio and the District of Columbia.

Dan Mills, an art critic, curator, and extensively exhibited artist served as the juror for Images 2010. He is the Director of Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He is also on the board of the Association of College and University Museums and Galleries.

Robeson Gallery, Penn State University Hours
The Images exhibition at Robeson Gallery, Penn State University is open from June 9 through July 11 and is free to the public. The hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The gallery is closed Sunday and Monday. The gallery hours will be extended during the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, July 7 through 11. The extended hours will be 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. the Wednesday through Saturday, and noon to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday.

For more information please contact Rick Bryant, Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts Executive Director at (814) 237-3682 or www.arts-festival.com or http://www.sa.psu.edu/usa/galleries/

Bill Santelli's Work Chosen For Faber Birren National Color Award Show
Artist Bill Santelli’s work has been accepted into the 30th Annual Faber Birren National Color Award Show, a juried exhibition for distinguished and creative expression of color, sponsored by the Stamford Art Association, Stamford, CT.

Two of Bill’s colored pencil drawings, The Path 10, and the The Path 12, were chosen by juror, Samantha Rippner, Associate Curator, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, from several hundred entries from across the United States.

The exhibit runs from October 3 through November 4, 2010 in the gallery at the Stamford Art Association; 39 Franklin St., Stamford, CT. Opening reception and awards ceremony will be held on Sunday, October 3, from 4-6pm.

In 1980, Faber Birren, world renowned color consultant, and author of 27 books on color, endowed the Faber Birren Color Award for original and creative expression of color. The show has grown to one of national scope, encouraging artists in all media. This competition is the only artistic event devoted exclusively to the use of color. This year, the Stamford Art Association celebrates its 30th year sponsoring the Faber Birren Color Award Show.

For information contact:
Christine Irvin, Co-president, Stamford Art Association; (203) 325-1139