"What I paint is real life, life not confused and corrupted by human progress-children, wild animals, unspoiled peoples. Maybe they won't be around much longer, and maybe I?can hold on to some of that life in my paintings." - Gregory Perillo
On Saturday, September 28 at 2 p.m., the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum will host an artist's opening reception for a very special exhibition, "From the Private Collection of Gregory Perillo." Internationally renowned, and one of Staten Island's most beloved artists, Mr. Perillo has chosen some of his personal favorite works to display in this show. Among the seldom-seen subjects he has selected are several of his iconic Native Americans-including Staten Island's Lenape tribe-baseball great Joe DiMaggio and movie star Marlene Dietrich, as well as Stephen Siller, the hero fireman who ran through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel to join the rescue operation at the Twin Towers in 2001.Videos