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“Odyssey..imagery so powerfully raw that the visitor
feels assaulted by it – visually, emotionally, intellectually,
even physically”. – Jacqueline Hall, Columbus
Dispatch
“Passion is a tour de force. This is a Christ image
as grotesquely powerful as Grunewald’s and as formally
complex as Rubens’ but seen in a landscape of rusting
mills.” –Louis A. Zona
“Imagine a sermon delivered by Edgar Allan Poe. …it
peers into a part of the psyche as nasty as a rattlesnake.”
– Sally Norman, Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Gone Wild..mesmerizing. – Benjamin Forgey,
Washington Star
“…Pernotto’s poignant show at the Fendrick
Gallery. ..a votive chapel dedicated to man’s survival
over the blast furnace”. – Jo Ann Lewis, Washington
Post
“His palette is vivid, his emotions are raw”.
– Gregory Conniff, Art Muscle Magazine
“…he seizes furiously on whatever means he
can find or devise-jerrybuilding his tower of Babel…the
very vehemence of his attack convinces”. – David
Tammous, Art in America
“Pernotto doesn't just push our hot buttons, he studies,
analyzes and represents them to us in a way that forces
us to see them from the inside out”. -Dorothy Shinn,
Akron Beacon Journal
“Your “King Toot” is a hoot, however
I am the Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for the City of
New York, not the Commissioner of Counter-Cultural Affairs”.
– Henry Geldzahler
“Your Passion painting is clearly a remarkable tour-de-force”.
– Patterson Sims
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