Rochelle Tasca is a visual artist and calligrapher based in Southern, New England. In 2014, she graduated from the Norwich Free Academy as a recipient of the Thomas J. Wozniak Memorial Drawing Award for excellence in drawing, as well as the Wendy Lynn Baribeault Memorial Fund Art Award for advanced placement in painting. Tasca received a BFA in drawing with a minor in painting from the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, a college of the University of New Haven, during the spring of 2019.
Currently, her work centralizes on fabricating innovative forms with anatomical alterations. These humanoid and anthropomorphized subjects act as manifestations of sexual trauma, loss, violation, neglect, depression, and chronic illness. While projecting an influence by the hands of Albrecht Durer, calligraphic mark-making is utilized to apply a sense of three-dimension to her figures. Beginning as a pencil sketch, each work gets refined and adjusted before the final idea is conceived. A series of these sketches grow to configure different permutations of dynamic-fusion arrangements. They are then transferred onto a larger surface, where more intimate line work and detail is applied.
Image courtesy of Morgan E. Ofsharick 2020
Rochelle Tasca - CV
rochelletascaart@gmail.com​
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Education
2019 BFA - drawing, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, a college of the University of New Haven (LACFA)
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Selected Exhibitions
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2020
Dark to Light an Exhibition Benefiting the Ashleigh Langbein Project, Art's Depot, Abingdon, VA
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2019
Fall 2019 Group Exhibition, Orchard Art Collective, PA
Senior Studio Exhibition, LACFA, Old Lyme, CT
42nd Annual Student Exhibition, LACFA, Old Lyme, CT
2018
Eagle Watch - Seasonal Exhibition, Connecticut River Museum, Essex, CT
2017
Faculty Selected Student Exhibition, LACFA, Old Lyme, CT
41st Annual Student Exhibition, LACFA, Old Lyme, CT
2016
Annual Holiday Art Sale, LACFA, Old Lyme, CT
Transformation, Essex Art Association Old Saybrook, CT
Faculty Selected Student Exhibition, LACFA, Old Lyme, CT
Osprey Festival, Old Lyme, CT
40th Annual Student Exhibition, LACFA, Old Lyme, CT
2014
Pop Up Time and Place Exhibition, Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT
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Awards and Achievements
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2019 Class speaker for the Spring Commencement Address, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT Fall 2018 - Spring 2019 Dean’s List, Cumulative GPA: 3.48, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT
2018 Education Internship, The Connecticut River Museum, Essex, CT
2014 The Thomas J. Wozniak Memorial Drawing Award, Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, CT
2014 The Wendy Lynn Baribeault Memorial Fund Art Award, Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, CT