Rose Marasco (b. 1948, Utica, NY)
Rose Marasco is a Maine-based lens artist. Her work often focuses on shadows and silhouettes, the natural world, and the forms of everyday objects. As John Yau writes, "Marasco might point the camera at something, but she is not being literal or theatrical. Something else has caught her attention..." Lucy Lippard notes something similar in the introduction to Rose Marasco: At Home, the monograph published by OSMOS Books in 2024: "In her hands the familiar becomes unfamiliar. Everyday life becomes life itself." In this way, Lippard says, Marasco "has created a new vernacular."
Marasco is currently a distinguished professor emerita at the University of Southern Maine. She has had solo shows at the Houston Center for Photography, the Davis Museum of Art at Wellesley College, the Farnsworth Museum of Art, and the University of New England Art Gallery, among others. Her works are in numerous public and private collections, including The Fogg Museum at Harvard University, the New York Public Library Photography Collection, the Museum of American History, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Library of Congress. In 2023, OSMOS presented her Projection Series at the inaugural Photo New York Fair at the Javits Center in New York. In 2025, OSMOS presented her solo exhibition Pinholes and Parallax.
Marasco lives and works in Portland, Maine.
Rose Marasco: At Home | OSMOS Books, 2023
Parallax No. 3
Archival pigment print
20 in x 60 in
Projection No. 1