Marcelene I. Mosca has been a full time painter since 2006 when she retired as an English teacher with a specialty in Poetry and the Arts at the High School of Art and Design in New York City. She spent many years writing and publishing her poems as well as reading as a featured poet in the New York metropolitan area. After attending The Art Students League of New York studying the art of anatomy, portraiture, and sculpture she found her voice and passion in the genre of abstract art. Her paintings carry forward the poetry and visual images she so eloquently put into words. Initially through her instructors in painting at he Art Students league she was heavily influenced by Hans Hoffman. She has exhibited extensively at the Art Students League of New York and in the Berkshires with The Berkshire Artists Guild. She maintains her studio and gallery in Lenox, MA.
As an artist I feel that my work is complete only when it is infused with an authentic and real quality of human emotion, vision, and experience. Whether that is expressed through my poetry or painting the essential element is to bring forth something that adds to the human experience in a significant way. The question is “why does it matter.” My hope is that the answer is in an authentic and truthful universal way. I think of this as my clear artistic rationale for how we should look upon everything we encounter in life, and especially as an artist.
