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Road Series
Drawings
Vanessa Marrocco is a painter whose work is situated in the motif of the road, and uses it as a metaphor to tie together disparate and ambiguous emotions. The road, a transitional space, is one that suspends us within our past, present, and future. In each painting, the edges of the road expands into a blur and vanish outside the borders of the canvas, dragging the foreground down with it in abstract brushstrokes, while in the distance a future culminates and grows larger within a vanishing point, every streak of light seemingly destined to the same fate. 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 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
Education:
Parsons School of Design, The New School, Bachelor of Fine Arts 2025
University of the Arts London, Camberwell College, Ba Hons Painting, 2024