Artist Bio
Rosetta DeBerardinis is a visual artist with afull-time
studio practice in New York City. This native New Yorker creates
an oeuvre of abstract paintings ranging up to 9 feet, urban drawings
of architectural rendering abutting each other and three-dimensional
works incorporating recycled materials. Her work has been exhibited
nationally and internationally in museums, commercial galleries
and art venues and included in both public and private collections.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Hampton University Museum; The Dallas
Womens Museum; Croatias City Museum of Varazdin; Museum
of Latin-American Art; Noyes Museum; The African-American Museum
of Dallas; and the Islip Museum are amongst the institutions who
have presented her work. She is included in permanent collections
at: PNC Bank; Siena Art Institute; Black Mountain College Museum;
Modesta Museum; Verizon Center; Judith A. Hoffberg Archive; Maryville
University; Historic Park Towne Place; Chiang-Kai International
Airport; Marriott Marquis Hotel and more.
DeBerardinis has been granted awards by the District
of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities and Liquitex,
a manufacturer of professional art materials. Several periodicals
and online publications including The Guardian, The
Washington Post, Richmond-Times Dispatch and the books
100 Artists of Washington, D.C and The One Word Project
have featured both the artist and/or her work.
She is a graduate of Vassar College and holds advanced
degrees from the University of the District of Columbia and the
University of Baltimore School of Law and studied at the London
School for Social Research, Rice University and the Fashion Institute
of Technology. Beyond the easel, DeBerardinis was an editor and
writer with numerous bylines in both print and electronic media;
a former competitive fencer who trained with the U.S. Olympic
team; playwright and a corporate attorney who clerked for both
the Chairman to the Council for the District of Columbia and the
General Counsel to the United States Copyright Office, prior to
making a complete commitment to the pursuit of her evolving artistic
passion in 1998..
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