Adjunct Associate Professor
Assistant Chair Fine Arts Department
Tel: 617 552-4295
E-Mail: andrew.tavarelli@bc.edu
Office: Devlin Hall 414
Education
BA Queens College 1963
Academic Profile
Andrew Tavarelli is the assistant chair of the Fine Arts Department in studio.
He teaches painting and drawing and is the director of the Senior Project Program
for studio majors. In addition to his teaching he has curated exhibitions of
contemporary art and Indonesian tribal art for the McMullen Museum. He has also
published articles and exhibition catalogues in the field of indigenous art
from Indonesia.
Voice of the Spirits, Boston College Art Gallery, 1989
Protection Power and Display,Indigenous Art of Indonesia, McMullen Museum of
Art, Boston College,1995
Professional Awards
He has received three National Endowment for the Arts awards, two for his work
in painting and one in support of the exhibition "Protection Power and
Display." In addition Tavarelli has been awarded a New York State CAPS
grant for drawing, a Blanche E. Colman Award in the Arts, a St. Botolph Club
award and a number of Faculty Research Grants from Boston College.
Exhibitions
Tavarelli is a widely exhibited painter with twenty seven solo exhibitions that
include:
- Fischbach Gallery, NYC, Haber-Theodore Gallery, NYC, Parker Street 470, Boston
- Harcus Krakow Rosen Sonnabend Gallery, Boston
- Gallery Naga, Boston
- Rose Museum, Brandeis University,Waltham MA
- University of Connecticut, Avery Point, Connecticut
- Hayden Gallery, MIT Cambridge.
Recent paintings and other works
He has also been included in numerous group exhibitions including:
- "Whitney Biennial," Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
- "Painted in Boston," ICA, Boston, MA
- "Art on Paper," Weatherspoon Art Gallery, U. of North Carolina
- "Painting and Sculpture Today," Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
- "Maps," Museum of Modern Art, NYC
- "Inspired by Nature," Mc Mullen Museum, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
- "A Private Vision, The Grahm Gund Collection," Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA