About

Hailing from suburban Philadelphia, where he spent his formative years, Turri now calls Pittsburgh home. Along with his art-making habit, he is also a self-taught drummer, having played, performed, and recorded with several bands during his teenage and early adult years. Highlights include opening for Snakefinger at the venerable East Side Club in Philadelphia, an improvised live on-air audience interactive performance on WYEP, and recording with Kramer at his Noise New Jersey Studio. His drummer’s sensibility permeates his experimental animation process, which relies heavily on intersecting timing patterns of multilayered imagery, resulting in hypnotic cadences that extend and compress time. It makes its presence felt in his paintings as well, where there is often an underlying sense of rhythmic syncopation between the color and form, which acts as the underlying scaffolding for the work. His animations have been screened nationally and internationally at Millennium Film Workshop Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, Morgantown, WV, VASTLAB Experimental Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, Microtonal Music Festival Beyond WQED Studio A, Pittsburgh, PA, UNDER the RADAR, Vienna, Austria, Broken Screen, Ecological Transition and Conviviality, Buenos Aires, Argentina, among others. A sampling of solo exhibitions of his paintings include: the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA, Laura Mesaros Gallery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, Estel Gallery, Nashville, TN, Xavier University Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA, and he has also participated in numerous group exhibitions across the country and internationally. Along with his art-making habit, he has written for New Art Examiner, BOMB Magazine, and Afterimage. Turri also holds a Teaching Associate Professor position in the Studio Arts Department at the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently represented by James Gallery.