Rosetta DeBerardinis

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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