Rosemarie Fiore
Rosemarie Fiore
Workspace Program Resident 2001
Rosemarie Fiore employs processed-based methods to challenge the boundaries between chance and choice. She states that she is interested in creating paintings, photographs and drawings through collaboration with common mechanisms and she does just that. Fiore has created works using amusement park rides, lawnmowers, windshield wipers, waffle irons, pinball machines, and smoke bomb fireworks to name a few. Her inspiration often comes from the choreographed moments of every day machines that go seemingly unnoticed to the naked eye. Her art is produced through the actions of these machines, a sort of time-based media. Thus, there is a constant tension between what the artist premeditates and what is created by chance.
Fiore’s sense of play and experimentation carried over in her work at Dieu Donné. Fiore used a waffle iron to burn delicate patterns into handmade abaca paper. No paint was used, only the heat from the iron, resulting in organic singe marks. She also created several works based off her interest and experience playing ’80s war video games. Recreating some of the intricate compositions of what we would now deem pixilated graphics, Fiore juxtaposes the oldest form of medium with that of the newest.
About the Artist
Rosemarie Fiore (b. 1972, New York) received her BA and BFA from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville and her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives and works in Bronx, NY. Fiore is represented by Von Lintel Gallery, NY, NY. She typically produces artwork out of the actions of mechanisms by converting popular technology such as lawn mowers, cars, waffle irons, floor polishers, pinball machines, fireworks and amusement park rides into painting machines.
She has attended residencies at Kohler Arts/Industry Program, Akrai, Sicily, Art Omi International Artists Residency Program, Ghent, NY, Yaddo, Saratoga, NY, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, Roswell Foundation AIR Program, Roswell, NM, Sculpture Space, Utica, NY and the Bronx Museum (AIM Program), Bronx, NY.
She has received awards through The New York Foundation for the Arts, Brooklyn, NY, The New York State Council for the Arts, New York, NY, The Sally and Milton Avery Foundation, The Bronx Council on the Arts, Bronx, NY, The Walentas-Sharpe Foundation, Brooklyn, NY, The Lower East Side Print Shop, New York, NY, The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and The Dieu Donne Paper Mill, New York, NY.
Her solo and group exhibitions include: The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, The SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Winkleman Gallery, New York, NY, The Anderson Gallery VCUarts, Richmond, VA, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO, The Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY, The Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, NY, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY, Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM and The Franklin Institute of Science, Philadelphia, PA.
She has been reviewed by The New York Times, New York Magazine, Art in America, Artforum, The Village Voice, NY Arts Magazine, FLAUNT Magazine, Art Papers Magazine, The Washington Post, Art on Paper, Artcritical.com and Art Ltd. Magazine. Her work is included in many public collections including Art in Embassies, Colombo, Sri Lanka, UBS Art Collection, Zurich, Switzerland, Fidelity Corporate Art Collection, Boston, MA, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, The Cosmopolitan Hotel, Las Vegas, NV, Neuberger Berman, New York, NY, The Aspen Collection, New York, NY, Capital One, Richmond, VA, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX and The Franklin Institute of Science, Philadelphia, PA. (Source: Artist’s Website)
For more information, please visit their website: https://www.rosemariefiore.com