About the Artist
S. Rossini is an Italian-American artist working in marble, bronze, installation, and performance. Residing in Pennsylvania, United States, Rossini also spends time working in Carrara and Pietrasanta, Italy.
Rossini's recent work is an examination of meditation through carving marble stone.
My overall interests as an artist is making seen the unseen. My current work is researching the similarities of difference and finding relationships between extremes and connection of opposites. There is a communion of dichotomies and contradictory forces such as light and heavy, strong and tender, soft and hard, resistance and compliance. Each working with each other, against each other, and depending on one another to exist.
Education
Rossini was formally trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the country’s first art museum and art school founded in 1805. With a rich history in classical tradition, Rossini received the Master of Fine Art in 2022.
Through residencies in Pietrasanta, Italy, Rossini was formally trained specifically in marble carving traditions passed down from generations of master artisans in the region. Rossini’s sculptures are hand carved from marble stone sourced from the Altissimo mountains of Carrera where she spent time learning about and connecting to the source of the material that she is drawn to.
In 2015, Rossini received the Master of Education with certification in Art and has taught various sculpture courses as well as AP Art history through the years.
In 2011 Rossini received the Bachelor of Fine Art upon completion of her studies at Moore College of Art and design- the first and only all women’s art and design college in the nation.