About the artist:

In Esther Grillo's surrealistic body of work, the human form is unified visually through a mix of media, the inventive use of trompe L'oeil as well as physically by high intensity heat. Melted glass, cooper and glaze are fused into frozen images fixed into the encompassing welded steel. Far from minimalist attitudes, the work is inclusive, a dynamic case of multimedia offering multi-message. Her three dimensional assemblages range in size from the intimate hand held scale, into human proportions and finally expanded to monumental indoor and outdoor installations. SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2002 "The Monarch Landscape," mural, 'wave shelter,' B. 76th Street, Rockaway, NY 2001 "Esther A. Grillo," Indoor and Outdoor Sculpture and Installations, Gruss Center of Visual Arts, The Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ 2000 "The Deep," mural, 'wave shelter,' B. 105th Street, Rockaway Park, NY 1999 "Surf's Up," mural, 'wave shelter,' B. 108th Street, Rockaway Park, NY 1998 "Mythical Cavern," mural, 'wave shelter,' B. 84th Street, Rockaway Park, NY 1990 "The Fallen," 14 Sculptors Gallery, New York, NY 1990 "Esther Grillo; Her Psyche," Payne Gallery, Moravian College, PA 1988 "Meltdown," Palmer Museum, Pennsylvania State University, PA 1988 "Esther A. Grillo: Installation, Sculpture, Collage, Prints," 14 Sculptors Gallery, New York, NY 1986 "Narrative Sculpture: Collage and Prints," 14 Sculptors Gallery, New York, NY 1983 "The Ambiguous Sculptural Image," 14 Sculptors Gallery, New York, NY SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2004-5 "Over the Rainbow," Empire State Park, Fulton Ferry, McLevy Park, Bridgeport, CT 2004 "ARTSplash," RAA, Gateway National Recreation Area, Fort Tilden, NY 2002 "Urban Air Forms: Queens," Outdoor Sculture in Forest Park, Queens, NY 2002 "Art Frenzy," Rockaway Artists Alliance, Inc., Studio 7 gallery, Fort Tilden, NY 2002 "Remembering," Rockaway Artists Alliance, Inc., Studio 7 gallery, Fort Tilden, NY 2001 "Women's Works: A Retrospective of Public Artists in New York City Parks 1967-2001," Arsenal Gallery, Fifth Avenue at 64th Street in Central Park 2001 "Renewal/Change, 19th Annual Outdoor Sculture Show," Empire State Park, Brooklyn, NY 2001 "ARTSplash 2001," RAA, Gateway National Recreation Area, Fort Tilden, NY 1994 "Women's Portfolio; Faculty and Alumnae," University College Art Gallery, Fairleigh Dickenson University, NJ 1993 "Challenging Utopia," 14 Sculptors Gallery, New York, NY 1991 "From the Streets of New York," Loft Gallery Space, Ikebukuro, Japan GRANTS, AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS 1999 City Parks Foundation Grant Award 1997 Queens Community Arts Fund, Rockaway Park, Queens, NY 1992 "MTA / Creative Stations," Award COMMISSIONS AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS Brooklyn College Art Collection, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA Palmer Museum, Pennsylvania State University, PA Books: 2002 Best of New York: Impressions in Continuity, First Edition, Sorrell Communications, Inc. p.175 1991 Sculpting Clay, by Leon I. Nigrosh, p.6, illustration SELECTED LECTURES AND MEDIA INTERVIEWS 1998 NY 1 Cable: "Artists From the Rockaways," EDUCATION 1981 MFA, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY 1977 BFA, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY