NOW ON VIEW
Daryl Trivieri’s Fantastic Animals:
Selections from the Vogel Collection
On View through August 31
Daryl Trivieri, American, born 1957. Still Life, 1985. Mixed media. Gift of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel to the CMA in 2012.
Will South, chief curator
Internationally famous collectors Herb
and Dorothy Vogel generously donated
over 800 works of art to the Columbia
Museum of Art, and in that treasure trove
are numerous examples by Daryl Trivieri
(American, b. 1957). An artist of seemingly
limitless energy, Trivieri’s subjects include
fantastic animals rendered with uncanny
technical precision using nothing more
than an ordinary ballpoint pen, as well as
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ghostly, cloud-like paintings made expertly
with an airbrush.
Daryl Trivieri attended Munson-WilliamsProctor Institute and Mohawk Valley
Community College in Utica, New York,
before moving to New York City in the
late 1970s. He settled on the Lower East
Side and supported himself by working as a
science fiction illustrator. His personal style
reflects his interest in scientific illustrations
and 19th-century photographs.
While living in New York, Trivieri showed
paintings and sculptures at downtown
galleries including Semaphore East and
Chronocide. In 1985, renowned writer,
photographer, and filmmaker Roland
Hagenberg selected his work—along with
work by Sue Coe, Mark Kostabi, and
others—for Psycho Pueblo, an exhibition
that introduced East Village art to Spain.
Daryl Trivieri’s skill as an artist, combined
with his electric imagination, remind us