Open House | FREE
Tuesday, June 10 | 10am-1pm, 2pm-7pm
Wednesday, June 11 | 10am-3pm

Artist Talk | $20 Suggested Donation
Wednesday, June 11 | 5-7pm, Artist Talk at 6pm

Rose Seccareccia is a multidisciplinary artist, licensed mental health provider and native New Yorker. Ovum: Myth and the Sacred Feminine stitches together a personal and collective narrative of mythical and historical women and girls through quilt making, embroidery, painting, and print making.

Water colored female bodies swirl inside of watery, cosmic eggs rich with imagined cell matter. Intimate embroidered works retell fever dreams with pieces like In the Belly of the Night Toad, and in others, articulate lichen, wood mold and fungal spores—exploring growth in decayed spaces.

A central textile mural and corresponding prints feature figures including Beatrice Cenci, Io, St. Margaret of Antioch, Sylvia Plath and the Mesopotamiam mermaid goddess Atargatis, all rendered in hand painted applique. Above them, a row of blastocysts becoming fetal material that transform into the alchemical child, symbolic of the meaning making we derive from universal stories.

These mediums are all presented in dialogue.

From Dust You Are, 13 x 10” ; Love Bug, 8.5 x 11” ; In the Belly of the Night Toad, 11x9”, hand embroidery on linen

Rose Seccareccia is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist and licensed mental health provider. Her mediums include embroidery, painting, printmaking and performance. Rose holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she studied printmaking and performance art. After graduation, Rose trained at the Work Center of Thomas Richards and Jerzy Grotowski in Pisa, Italy, and assistant art directed at Dangerous Ground Productions in New York City. She subsequently taught visual art at Harlem Children’s Zone and coordinated touring and production at Performa. As the Creative Arts Coordinator at The Bridge, a behavioral health organization, Rose directed therapeutic art groups for re-entry citizens and persons with severe mental illness and substance use disorder. Rose has shown her work at Duplex Gallery and Gallery M in Manhattan and currently works out of her studio in West Harlem.

Io’s Torment, acrylic on canvas; Light Keepers, watercolor on paper

Siren Cove, 11x14” block print on paper

banner image: Little Heaven, 7 x 5.5”, hand embroidery on hand dyed cotton