Artist Statement
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Vincent Donato’s work reveals itself by way of repetition. A constant across the work, the image of the rose, renders all other variables that much more significant— the thickness or transparency of the paint applied to canvas, the sense of noise or calm created by color and obsessive or subtle mark-making.
These considerations result in visceral compositions that speak to a range of emotions, constituting a visual journal in which each entry is a different shade of existentialism. Executed by crossing a rage of selected mediums presenting something that's visually fragile yet detrimental just like the rose.
Looking to alternate the image as object, object as image, reminding us of the inevitable contradictions that define mortal existence.
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​Vincent Donato Roselli (b. 1995) is a self-taught artist from Staten Island, NY.
Vincent works with a variety of mediums, favoring distorted brushes to manipulate plaster, beeswax, oil paint, and natural pigments. Beyond canvas, Vincent creates mobile and mounted sculptures using annealed steel wire and industrial materials repurposed from unconventional sources. His latest work delves into an engraving-like technique through monoprintmaking.
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