STILL MOVEMENT

This September, we are excited to welcome back Vincent Donato for his solo debut at Soup Gallery. Still Movement is an exhibition of mixed media paintings, printmaking, and sculpture that revisits the artist’s ongoing study of the rose as memento mori. Across paper, canvas, and metal, Vincent alternates image as object, object as image, reminding us of the inevitable contradictions that define mortal existence. 

This installation will feature a wall of mono prints opposite larger works on canvas punctuated by floating mobiles.

Vincent Donato Roselli (b. 1995) is a self-taught artist from Staten Island, NY. His first exposure to painting was graffiti, and he continues to incorporate old school street art methods in his practice. Vincent creates within a chaotic studio space, utilizing a variety of found substances from dust on the floor to old brush water left in glass jars. He favors distorted brushes across mediums such as plaster, beeswax, oil paint, and natural pigment. In addition to working on canvas, Vincent constructs mobile and mounted sculptures with annealed steel wire and mixed industrial materials that he salvages from construction sites.

And now, a word from the artist:

“A stage in life of feeling stagnant while being in a constant state of change all around me.” Still movement is a body of work created this year during a period of self-reflection.

Each work captures my feeling of being stuck while experiencing change. 

I have chosen the rose as a subject to mirror my own understanding of being alive through cycles of death and renewal.  The repeating rose motif is to be seen as a Memento Mori.

 I prefer to work in an organic manner of chance inside the studio. My subjects are executed through different mixed mediums presenting something thats visually fragile yet detrimental just like the Rose.