Marcy Rosewater

Biography

Marcy Rosewater is a Brooklyn and Lower Hudson Valley-based painter and is featured in Issue 158 of New American Paintings. Known for her "Inanimate Portraits" and symbolic landscapes, she creates proxy worlds using everyday and manufactured objects.Her portfolio is defined by the following details:Artistic Style: She explores the gap between recognition and distance by painting found, invented, and set-up still lifes.Materials: She uses traditional oil painting techniques on both linen and panel to meticulously mimic the real world.Key Themes: Her "Inanimate Portraits" use mass-produced porcelain figurines and toys to capture human likeness and character, while her environmental still lifes serve as nostalgic forewarnings regarding the loss of natural habitats.Exhibitions & Features: She has exhibited at Turley Gallery, Studio 10, and Equity Gallery in NYC, and is a featured artist in New American Paintings.Education & Residencies: Rosewater holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has completed residencies at Byrdcliffe and 77ART.