Rosemarie Fiore

Rosemarie Fiore is a visual artist from Bronx, NY.  She combines painting and performance to produce artwork out of the actions of mechanisms.  Her work investigates the space that exists between chaos and control. Fiore’s "Smoke Painting Tools" harness and mix color smoke released from fireworks, these tools paint on paper using the painting technique “Fumage”.  She creates large abstract works on paper for exhibitions, commissions and performances around the world. 

Her work has been exhibited by MOCA Jacksonville, Weatherspoon Museum, Queens Museum, Bronx Museum and Socrates Sculpture Park.  Fiore is a fellow of MacDowell, Yaddo, Art OMI and Sculpture Space residencies.  She has been awarded grants through the Avery Foundation, NYSCA, NYFA, and The Walentas-Sharpe Foundation. She has been reviewed by the LA Times, NY Times, NY Magazine, Art in America, Artforum, Village Voice and NY Arts Magazine. Her work is included in the public collections of Texas A & M University, UBS, Fidelity, Weatherspoon Museum, NC, and Cosmopolitan Hotel, Las Vegas. She is on the MacDowell Colony’s Board, teaches at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is represented by Von Lintel Gallery, LA.