Now on Instagram: karenrosascoart
I'm a watermedia artist, instructor, and retired art teacher. In my current series of work, I'm using a variety of watermedia in layers to achieve a highly textural and dynamic presentation.
After 40 years of painting realistic interpretations of landscapes, florals, and architectural themes, I find this new concentration on the relationships between the basic elements of art (shape, value, line, color and texture) to be a more exciting personal approach to art. Methods, materials and themes change, but a consistently good composition and design hold the viewer's eye.
I'm a watermedia artist, instructor, and retired art teacher. In my current series of work, I'm using a variety of watermedia in layers to achieve a highly textural and dynamic presentation.
After 40 years of painting realistic interpretations of landscapes, florals, and architectural themes, I find this new concentration on the relationships between the basic elements of art (shape, value, line, color and texture) to be a more exciting personal approach to art. Methods, materials and themes change, but a consistently good composition and design hold the viewer's eye.
Private Watermedia Lessons
I teach private 2-person lessons in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia called RSVP (Rosasco's Shenandoah Valley Place). Learn more about RSVP (Rosasco's Shenandoah Valley Place). Contact me to schedule private lessons in my studio.
Shows
2019
2020
- Pop-up Floral Art Show, April 19 - May 4, Co Art Gallery in Staunton, VA.
- Virginia Mennonite Retirement Center National Juried Exhibit at the Park Cables Gallery, May 26 - June 30, Opening reception: June 2, 2 - 4pm,
- Shenandoah Valley Art Center Open Studio Tour, September 14, 10am - 4pm & Sept 15, 12pm - 4pm at my home studio, 1451 Sunset Lane, Waynesboro, VA.
- Oakroom Artists Three-Person Show, October 6 - 29, Opening Reception: Sunday, October 6 from 1:30pm to 3:30pm, Open weekdays Mon - Fri 9:30am - 3:30pm, Unitarian Universalist Society of Schenectady.
- Fall Foliage Festival, October 12 & 13 10am - 5pm both days on the streets of Waynesboro, VA. See my booth inside the SVAC's new building.
- Holiday Miniature Show during December at the Abend Gallery in Denver, CO.
2020
- Rosen and Rosasco Exhibit, end of January through mid March at the Louisa Arts Center in Louisa, VA.
- Solo Show of over 30 paintings, August 27 - October 28, University of Virginia Medical Center Lobby, in Charlottesville, VA.
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Once Again has been accepted in this year's American Watercolor Society's International Exhibition in New York City which will be displayed during the month of April at the Salmagundi Club on 5th Avenue. "Once Again" is a full sheet 30" x 38" many-layered acrylic. In 2007 my piece "Abandoned" won the silver medal.
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In Ella's Lifetime: 100 Artists for Ella - was at the Downing-Gross Cultural Center in Newport News, VA. My contribution is a creative interpretation of Ella Fitzgerald's "Anything Goes". 100 artists, painters, printmakers, sculptors, and photographers were given titles of Ella's songs to use as motivation for pieces to hang in the center and then travel globally to sister cities in France, Germany, 2 cities in China, and Japan through April 2018. Recently purchased by the UVA McIntyre School of Commerce for their permanent collection.
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