Rossella Mocerino

The Venice Carnival is Rossella Mocerino's playground. Her fascination with mask wearing has led her to Venice year after year on a journey which offers wonderment, magic and creativity at every step. Through its colorful costumes and unique masks, she explores the very complex range of human emotions and has developed her own very personal style. Beauty and decay, love and death, the obvious and the mysterious are all aspects that intrigue her and lead to further study. Along the way, this watery city full of romance and intrigue has hosted two of Rossella Mocerino's solo shows.

Art critic Stephen Dominic D'Agostino: "For New York painter Rossella Mocerino, every day is Carnival. Not because she is in a constant state of revelry, but because she is intrigued by the masks of those celebrations and the metaphorical masks we wear to protect ourselves and our emotions from others, from the strictures of society and from ourselves." New York Blade News, Feb.15, 2002

Art critic Lawrence Downes; "Every bit as enigmatic as the Mona Lisa, these figures in fantastic raiment have a haunting presence, as they pose and preen enigmatically, the smiles on their painted lips seeming somehow more malevolent than mirthful, their mimetic gestures seeming to mock, even as they enchant. Indeed, given their sinister side, it is a tribute to Rossella Mocerino's superb skills as a painter that we nonetheless find them irresistibily seductive." Gallery & Studio Summer 2005.

In addition to Montserrat Gallery, Rossella Mocerino's work can be seen on line at www.ArtSlant.com and www.myartinfo.com. She can also be found at www.myspace.com/rossellamocerino. Her most recent shows have been in Venice and New York City during 2008.