Rose Marasco has produced significant and innovative bodies of photographic work including Domestic Objects: Past and Presence, cibachrome prints that infuse everyday objects with poetic symbolism; Ritual and Community: The Maine Grange, which received the New England Historical Association Award; and currently New York City Pinhole Photographs, a series of large-format color street scenes of each neighborhood in Manhattan. A solo exhibition is scheduled at Meredith Ward Fine Art, in New York, April 3 – May 3, 2014.
Previous solo exhibitions include The Houston Center for Photography 2010-11; Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France, 2008; Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York 2003, 2000, and 1998; The Davis Museum at Wellesley College 1995; and, at The Farnsworth Museum of Art in Rockland, Maine 1992.
Rose Marasco’s photographs are included in private and public collections including The Fogg Museum, Harvard University; The Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College; the Photography Collection at The New York Public Library; The Portland Museum of Art; Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collection; and the Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
Marasco’s work has been reviewed in major publications, including The New Yorker, New York, and in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Her exhibitions have been reviewed in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Village Voice, and Art New England. She has lectured extensively at such institutions as Harvard University, Bates College, Colby College, Massachusetts College of Art, and Parsons School of Design. Marasco was awarded the 2005 Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award from the Center in Santa Fe, NM.
