The Harlow | Kleven Collection is exhibited regularly in the Watermark Art Center with selected prints and ceramics loaned to other public areas on campus and in the community.
EXHIBIT May 23 – September 19, 2025
This exhibition features 25 prints from a series of hundreds of drawings done on editorial pages of the New York Times produced by Ferreri between 2010–2017.
Also included are a selection of ceramic pieces from BSU’s Harlow Collection to complement Ferreri’s prints.
The Internal Affairs of Mr. Invincible are extravagant mixed-media drawings on the editorial pages of The New York Times. Initiated in 2010 as a continuing series, they elaborate on ordinary and extraordinary phenomena, physical preoccupations, anxieties, and observations regarding the details of everyday living. Influences for these daily drawings derive from news stories, op-eds, personal interactions, memory, history, intuition, or a previous night’s dream.
“Drawing on the surface of ever-changing newspaper headlines underscores the idea that, beneath the surface of our lives, the news resides as perpetual background noise,” Ferreri said.
“This subtext infiltrates our consciousness. My drawings elaborate on ordinary and extraordinary phenomena, physical preoccupations, anxieties and observations regarding the details of everyday living.”
One exhibition reviewer wrote: “Like works of Joan Miró, Paul Klee, and Pablo Picasso, Ferreri’s colorful drawings abstract recognizable imagery through free-association, dense patterning, and surreal juxtapositions.”
Another wrote: “His style is wild, imaginative and explodes with color.”
The project was supported by an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. During his career, Ferreri has also received a McKnight Foundation fellowship and a Bush Foundation Artist in Education grant.
Prints from Ferreri’s collections have been included in BSU’s Lillie M. Kleven Print Collection, the Minnesota Historical Society, and the Library of Congress.