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Artist Bio
Born and raised in New York City, visual artist
Rosetta DeBerardinis is currently an artist-in-residence at Zenith
Gallery at The Chevy Chase Pavilion in Washington, D.C. following
her recent completion of a three-year residency at School 33 Art
Center in Baltimore, MD. She continues to create large abstract
paintings, urban drawings and mixed media sculptures. Golden Artists
Colors, the major manufacturer of acrylic paint in the United
States recently selected her for its "Working Artist"
program whereby she will travel the mid-Atlantic region to present
lectures and workshops on its products.
She exhibited and sold work at commercial galleries
and art venues throughout the United States and in China, India,
Croatia and Japan. Her museum credentials include The Corcoran
Gallery of Art, The Dallas Women’s Museum, and the City Museum
of Varazdin in Croatia and the African American Museum in Dallas.
In 2003, art critic Barbara Rose, David Rubin along with other
jurors nominated her for to represent the United States for the
Florence, Italy Biennale where she plans to exhibit in 2011. DeBerardinis
uses color as a material. Her work is a culmination of abstract
expressionism, gestural, action painting and color field. Creating
work up to 9 feet, she does not fear the blank canvas nor is she
intimidated by its large spatial plane. Using various tools and
instruments to apply pigment, her gloved hand is her most important
tool.
For the past eleven- years, DeBerardinis has worked
hard to build her artistic credentials but also remains an organized
and detailed businesswoman. She teaches marketing and business
classes to artists under her subsidiary, ‘Beyond the Easel’.
Her classes have been under the auspices of Art Exposure, the
Warehouse Gallery, and Lucinda Gallery and for the Black Artists
of D.C. She led guided art tours on a monthly basis during gallery
openings in the District of Columbia and Bethesda, Maryland for
five years. She currently reviews art exhibits and writes feature
articles for the blog Daily Campello Art News. In 2007, Liquitex,
the original manufacturer of acrylic paint awarded her Artist
of the Month: January, for her creative use of the pigment. DeBerardinis
has been featured in several magazines, newspapers, blogs, U-tube
interviews and gallery and museum catalogues, including the book
Thinking About Art.
DeBerardinis received her undergraduate degree from
Vassar College, a master’s from the University of the District
of Columbia and a juris doctorate from the University Of Baltimore
School of Law. She has also completed coursework at Rice University,
Fashion Institute of Technology and The London School of Social
Research. Her interest in art began at age five when enrolled
in the Saturday art program at Pratt Institute in New York City
where she studied for ten years.
06-2010
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