"Coming Home: A Collection of Works by Rosetta DeBerardinis".
Opening Reception: March 19th from 6 to 8 pm.
The Corner Store
900 South Carolina Avenue, S.E.
Washington, DC
202-544-5807
Visual artist Rosetta DeBerardinis will be debuting at The Corner Store located on Capitol Hill in March. "Coming Home: A Collection of Works by Rosetta DeBerardinis" marks the artist's return to the D.C. market upon the completion of a three-year artistic residency at School 33 Art Center in Baltimore, Maryland. The work demonstrates her expansion from color field painting to abstract expressionism to urbanscapes, monoprints, sculpture and to drawings while retaining her signature energy and strong use of color.
During the residency, DeBardinis began to meld her ceramics with objects found on the streets of Baltimore and drove the finished sculptures back to D.C.. for exhibition at Zenith Gallery last year. Her responses to Charm City's rawness and grit are reflected in much of her studio work. While there, she temporarily abandoned painting 9 ft. canvases to create work suitable for tiny Baltimore row houses. After downsizing in response the architectual limits of the city she began to exhibit surfaces as small as 2 1/2 inches, or the size of trading cards. She found compressing her energy into tiny space took practice and amazing focus and welcomed the challenge.
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