Rose Marasco

Rose Marasco (born December 25, 1948), is an American photographer. She is considered to be "perhaps Maine’s most prolific photographer,” living and working there since 1979.[1]

Rose Marasco
Self portrait of Rose Marasco.
Born (1948-12-25) December 25, 1948
Utica, New York
NationalityAmerican
EducationBFA: Syracuse University
MA: Goddard College
MFA: Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York

Early Life and Education

Rose Marasco grew up in Utica, New York.[2] She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography at Syracuse University in 1971, an M.A. from Goddard College in 1981, and her Master of Fine Arts at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester.[3][4] where she studied under Nathan Lyons and Joan Lyons.[5]

Teaching career

After leaving VSW, Marasco "initiated the photography program at Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, NY, establishing the curriculum, darkrooms, & studios, and teaching both black & white and color" from 1974-1979.[6] Marasco moved to Maine in 1979 for a position at the University of Southern Maine where she taught photography for 35 years, retiring as Distinguished Professor Emeritus in 2014.[7]

Artistic career

Marasco has been an exhibited artist since 1971 with twenty-three solo shows and more than sixty group shows. Marasco’s photographs are included in public collections of distinction including at: The Fogg Museum at Harvard University; The Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College; The New York Public Library Photography Collection; The Portland Museum of Art; and The Bowdoin College Museum of Art among others.[8][9][10][11][12] She has lectured about her work at Harvard University, Parsons School of Design, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, Bowdoin College, Maine College of Art, and many other institutions in the United States.[13][14]

In 2015 The Portland Museum of Art mounted a major retrospective, called index, of Marasco's work, organized by PMA Chief Curator Jessica May.[15] Describing her method in a review of the exhibition, critic John Yau wrote “It seems to me that Marasco deserves both a full-sized monograph and to be better known. She is more than Maine’s most prolific photographer.”[16] In 2016 Marasco was awarded the Maine Women's Fund Sarah Orne Jewett Award, given to "a Maine woman who exhibits the attributes of the women in Jewett’s works of fiction: true grit, independence, courage, humor and discipline,"[17] and in 2005, received the Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award from Santa Fe Center for Photography New Mexico.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Public Collections

Teaching

Books

Covers

“Camouflage” by Murray Bail (2001) Farrar, Straus and Giroux

“Latest Will: New & Selected Poems” by Lenore Marshall (2002) W.W. Norton & Company

“Confessions” by Kang Zhengguo (2007) W.W. Norton & Company

“Mouth Wide Open” by John Thorne (2007) North Point Press

Work included in

“Thoughts on Landscape: Collected Writings and Interviews” by Frank Gohlke (2009) Hol Art Books

“Portland Through the Lens” (2007) warren machine company

“Undomesticated Interiors” (2003) essays by April Gallant and Mimi Hellman, Smith College Museum of Art

“Designing Identity” (2000) Marc English Rockport Publishers

“The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society” by Lucy R. Lippard (1997) The New Press

“Ritual and Community: The Maine Grange” essay by Frank Gohlke Amazon Books

“Selections 4: Polaroid International Exhibition” (1988) essay by Mark Haworth-Booth

Select Critical Reviews

Julien Langevin, "Plastic Expressions in Particularity: Nature Moves in Tracy McKenna’s Shift at Able Baker Contemporary." ArtSpiel, November 21, 2019.

John Yau, “Photographs That Write With Light.” Hyperallergic, November 16, 2019.

Daniel Kany, “Both smoke AND mirrors: Photography of Rose Marasco.” Portland Press Herald, May 31, 2015.

Mark Feeney, “In Portland, a survey of Rose Marasco’s photographs." Boston Globe, May 28, 2015.

Bob Keyes, “In a summer of art, a Rose blooms.” Portland Press Herald, May 25, 2015.

Other

Photographer’s website

References
  1. Yau, John. "A Photographer Who Deserves to Be Widely Known." Hyperallergic, August 30, 2015. accessed: March 6, 2020.
  2. Yau, Ibid
  3. Keyes, Bob. "In a summer of art, a Rose blooms." Portland Press Herald, May 24, 2015. accessed: March 7, 2020.
  4. May, Jessica. Rose Marasco: index. Portland Museum of Art, 2015. p. 81.
  5. "First-ever retrospective of one of Maine's greatest living photographers at the Portland Museum of Art." ArtDaily, accessed: March 7, 2020.
  6. "About Rose Marasco." accessed: March 7, 2020.
  7. Keyes
  8. ”Yellow Button Card”, Harvard Art Museums, https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/143552?position=0, accessed: March 7, 2020.
  9. ”Rose Marasco”, The Davis Museum at Wellesley College, http://dms.wellesley.edu/results.php?term=marasco&module=objects&type=keyword&x=0&y=0, accessed: March 7, 2020.
  10. ”Rose Marasco”, Wallach Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, http://wallachprintsandphotos.nypl.org/catalog?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=rose+marasco&search_field=all_fields&utf8=%E2%9C%93&commit=search, accessed: March 7, 2020
  11. ”Rose Marasco”, Portland Museum of Art Collection, http://collections.portlandmuseum.org/4DACTION/HANDLECGI/CTN3, accessed: March 7, 2020
  12. ”Rose Marasco”, Bowdoin College Museum of Art Collections, http://artmuseum.bowdoin.edu/4DACTION/HANDLECGI/CTN3?RefineSearch=NewSelection&theKW=rose+marasco, accessed: March 7, 2020.
  13. "About Rose Marasco." accessed: March 7, 2020.
  14. "Artist Lecture: Rose Marasco", Maine College of Art, July 10, 2017. https://www.meca.edu/event/artist-lecture-rose-marasco/ accessed: March 7, 2020.
  15. May, ibid.
  16. Yau, John. "A Photographer Who Deserves to Be Widely Known." Hyperallergic, August 30, 2015. , accessed: March 7, 2020.
  17. Maine Women's Fund, "2016 Leadership Luncheon and Award Recipients," mainewomensfund.org: , accessed: March 7, 2020.
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