Confluence: Plough Gallery exhibit celebrates 39 year partnership
Published 7:11 am Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Unlike his colorful watercolor paintings, Yasko's fittingly named "Breaking Traditions" is a monochrome painting made using charcoal on vellum canvas.
Rick Yasko and Angi Curreri have been married for thirty-nine years--almost to the date, in fact, as the day of their exhibit's opening was also their anniversary. Their artistic career together spans almost the same stretch of time.
This trio of Curreri's works, set just by the gallery entrance and right underneath the exhibit logo, sport the shared title of "Radial Shrine," evoking the shrinelike imagery common in the artist's work.
TIFTON — The collected works of partners in both art and life for 39 years and counting are now on display at Plough Gallery.
The gallery’s newest exhibition, “Confluence,” opened the evening of March 1, showcasing the artwork of married artists Rick Yasko and Angi Curreri assembled from their storied history of creating art and living life together.
The latest collaboration between the two artists in a long line of shared events going back almost to the start of their marriage, the exhibit serves as a celebration of that very cooperation and showcases the best works from each artist’s catalogue as a testament to their relationship as both artists and husband and wife.
Fittingly, the reception held for the exhibit’s opening was also the date of their anniversary. Yasko and Curreri each gave an artist’s talk during the event, speaking on their inspirations, artistic processes, and what they hoped guests would take from their collected works.
Both artists bring their own unique style to the exhibition, complementing one another’s work while ensuring their own can suitably engage patrons in its own right. Yasko’s watercolor painted collages compile images, text, and puns to build narratives within the works, sometimes with the intent of playfully misleading the viewer, while Curreri’s ceramics evoke shrinelike imagery to harken to the personal rituals we undertake.
“I label the work with the umbrella of being called ‘small offerings’ because I feel like it’s a gift,” Curreri said. “I’ve been given a gift to be an artist and this is my gift back to the world.”
The pair have had quite the shakeup in the past few months, having been forced to pick up the pieces in a new home after their Florida house, and much of their work, was destroyed in a flood.
However, they’re thankful for the opportunity to compile their work together for this exhibit, eager to showcase all they’ve done together and assert all they’ll continue to do as partners.
“For us, this is an opportunity to bring a good body of work together that spanned a significant length of time and showed us as a team and how we approach art differently.” Yasko said.
“Confluence” will be on display at Plough Gallery until May 31 from 10 a.m. to 6p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. For more information, visit the gallery’s website at ploughgallery.com or call (229) 396-4200
