Rosemarie Padovano
2009 Swing Space Resident, 77 Water Street
Rosemarie Padovano is a sculptor, photographer, and performance artist working in New York. Her work explores the paradoxical relationship between spirituality and sexuality, freedom and restraint, human and animal desires. She makes visible those things that remain intangible, as in the sight of sound, the experience of the body in ecstasy, or the enigma of what happens after death. She relocates imagery and ideas reserved for the religious, while simultaneously introducing themes often considered taboo. It is in this making that she questions and scrutinizes basic cultural and religious traditions and reformulates them for contemporary society.
Padovano received her MFA in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2007 and her BFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design in 2004. She has exhibited extensively in New York City and abroad including shows at Moti Hasson Gallery, Exit Art, Galeria Ramis Barquet, White Box: The Annex, The Alliance Francaise, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Parsons School of Design and New School University.
For the duration of Swing Space Rosemarie will develop, fabricate, and install a sculpture that is a functioning lightning rod for a building. This lightning rod is unique because it takes its shape from the digital sound waves of female orgasms.
