My MAJOR influence is nature. I can't stop painting Her.
Art Student's League, NYC
Fashion Inst. Of Technology, NYC
Dieu Donne Paper Mill, NYC
Rosetta Bentz is a landscape/seascape artist who works predominantly in oils. She has studied at the Art Student’s League in New York City, Dieu Donne Paper Mill, FIT and Lower East Side Print Shop. Four of her seascapes were commissioned for the Atlantis Hotel in Paradise Island, The Bahamas and her work is included in the corporate collections of the Ritz Carlton Hotels. Rosetta curates and exhibits in solo and group shows nationally, including NYU Small Works show, the Interchurch Center, Franklin 54 Gallery, Southwest Minnesota State University Art Museum and Wisser Library at the NY Institute of Technology.
The goal of Rosetta’s work is to interpret nature, as she is endlessly fascinated by the earth’s power, splendor, rawness, abstractness and perfection. Rosetta’s affinity for color and texture are evident in a body of work that shouts with life, urgency, anticipation and new beginnings.
Rosetta creates texture and richness in her pieces by layering color with a palette knife. Her process is to place color and shapes onto the painting surface until she covers the entire surface. Slowly, an image starts to take form (usually a landscape) and then she defines it and finetunes the work with gradations of color and texture.
Rosetta Bentz paints seascapes and landscapes - not necessarily how she sees them, but how she feels them. Bursting with palpable emotion, these compositions have a fierce intensity about them as insistent brushwork clamors for the viewer’s attention. Powerful, yet executed with a sublime sensitivity, Rosetta articulates through paint her devotion to nature.
