Artist Profile

Rosetta Bentz was born in Calabria, Italy and grew up in New York. She shares a studio with her artist husband, Charles, in Long Island City, NY, and regularly exhibits both locally and nationally.

She is a painter, collage-maker, potter and paper-maker. She is endlessly fascinated by the earth’s beauty -- the power, the stillness, the rawness, the abstractness, the seemingly irregularity and perfection. Continuously in awe and inspired by Nature, this is her guide and muse. Her affinity for color and texture are evident in a body of work that shouts with life, urgency, anticipation and new beginnings.

Rosetta attended the Art Students League in New York, NY where she studied portraiture, collage and abstract painting for several years. She has also studied sumi-e painting with Koho Yamamoto, paper making at the Dieu Donne Paper Mill, pottery and sculpture, drawing and window display at the Fashion Institute of Technology – all in New York, NY.

Rosetta was chosen to participate in the Washington Square “Small Works Show”, juried by Claudia Stone, Director of Allan Stone Gallery in New York, NY. It featured two of her Landscape paintings. Her painting, “Seascape #1”, appeared on the cover of Sunshine Artists magazine where she and her husband were the featured artists in that issue. Her work is included in various corporate collections such as the Ritz Carlton Hotel in St. Thomas, VI and the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Key Biscayne, Florida. Rosetta recently completed three commissions for the Atlantis Hotel in the Bahamas, VI.

She is a resident artist in “Artists in Cellophane” -- a nation-wide art movement that dispenses small, affordable artwork through recycled cigarette vending machines via museums, department stores, specialty shops and cafés.

She has been a juror for the Museum of Computer Art’s First International Digital Art Show in 2004 at Lincoln Center’s Cork Gallery.