Al farrow biography

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Al Farrow has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than four decades. An accomplished sculptor in a wide variety of media, Farrow generally adopts the visual language of a particular historical period for his work, updating the imagery or material to make cogent observations about contemporary society.

One notable early project by Farrow is based on bowls buried with the dead in the Mimbres Valley of New Mexico.

Nearly a thousand years ago, the indigenous culture living in that region created ceramics with geometric designs of the natural world in black and white patterns. In Farrow’s Mimbres Bowl Series, he meticulously renders military imagery in a traditional style like that of the Mimbres people, using a single reed brush to paint geometric patterns on the interiors of bowls, creating them in a way that resembles the original ceramics.

In the past twenty years, Farrow has created a body of work titled Reliq