Vanessa Marrocco
Vanessa Marrocco is a New Jersey–born painter working between New Jersey and New York. At 22 years old, she has already presented her work in multiple exhibitions in New York and London. Vanessa’s paintings are situated in the motif of the road, which expresses disparate and ambiguous emotions. The road, a transitional space that occupys our daily lives, is one that suspends us within our past, present, and future. This moment of inbetween which is a reocurring theme in Vanessa’s work is one she believes is intergral to digging deeper into our own personal phycology and perception of the past and present. In each painting, anticipation, remorse, anxiety, and regret rub and rush against each other on the same plane creating a confusion that culminates into an ominous and liminal atmosphere. Vanessa's practice searches to communicate a profound and phenomenal feeling of how we embody our experience of time and trauma through depicting it as an extreme and beautiful landscape that is fractured and flowing.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2025 - November Featured Artist at Roots Closter NJ USA
2025 - Ziello Gallery x Tokay “ A Soft Descent” Brooklyn NY USA
2025 - Riverside Gallery “ Fall Exhibition” Hackensack NJ USA
2025 - Bushwick Open Studios x MAQET Collective “ The Parlor Room” Brooklyn NY USA
2025 - Van Der Plas Gallery, “ Summer Solstice: Concrete Myths” Manhattan NY USA
2025 - The Living Gallery, “Now What?” Brooklyn NY USA
2025 - “Party City”, Manhattan NY USA
2024 - Copeland Gallery, “Coalesce” Peckham, London UK
2024 - “Brixton Library Exhibition”, Brixton, London UK.
Publications and Media:
“Contemporary Transitive Painting” Essay published in ARS Zine 2025.
“ Time Project - Animation “ AMT Moving Image Festival 2023.
Member of the Following Organizations:
Co-founder and Community member of “MAQET” Art Collective based in NYC