Donna Scarpa

My enduring interests as a painter include the transmission of light through color, the materiality of paint, and intuitive, intentional processes. I create tactile and spatial relationships through gestural marks, layered surfaces, and generally bright palettes in my ongoing exploration of abstract forms. In my most recent paintings, I employ color, texture, shape, and line to create compositions suggestive of the natural world. Gestural, horizontal marks sometimes look like horizon lines, while at other times they appear as strata of earth. In some works, bright colors and textured surfaces give abstract form to plants or features of landscapes. In others, expressive marks and translucent treatments suggest skies and celestial bodies. While creating the paintings in Horizons & Environs, my own environment has been a source of solace and inspiration, and a reliable catalyst in the studio. The horizons in question are both literal and metaphorical as features of the natural world, and as creative expressions of things to come.

Donna Scarpa lives and works in Ridgefield, Connecticut. She holds a BFA in Fine Arts and Textile Design from The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. She has also furthered her studies in painting and drawing through workshops and certificate programs at The School of Visual Arts, The National Academy of Design, The Art Students League of New York, The Green Studio School, and The Yellow Chair Salon. Scarpa has exhibited her abstract paintings extensively in New York and Connecticut. Her solo exhibitions include Horizons & Environs, The Painting Center, NYC; and Reconstructing, The Painting Center, NYC. Her work has also been featured in group exhibitions in numerous venues, including the Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury CT; Katonah Museum Artists Association, Ossining, NY; Woodstock Artist Association & Museum, Woodstock NY; Ridgefield Artists Guild, Ridgefield, CT; Upstream Gallery, Hastings On Hudson, NY; The Painting Center, NYC; New York School of the Arts, NYC; The Mamaroneck Artists Guild, NY; Center for Contemporary Printmaking, New Canaan, CT; Garrison Art Center, NY; The BIZ Gallery, Larchmont, NY; The Sephardic Community Center, Brooklyn, NY; and Art Society of Kingston, NY. Scarpa has also curated exhibitions at The Biz Gallery in Larchmont, NY. Her work is held in a number of private collections and been featured in Balanced Rock: The North Salem Review of Art, Photography, and Literature, and in the Art in America Annual Guide, 2021-2022.

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