Book Description

For more than 25 years, Serena Bocchino has created art that energetically combines abstraction and expressionism with investigations into music, poetry, and dance. Bocchino is known primarily for her paintings, this American artist has also produced an impressive series of drawings and prints. Bocchino, growing up in a household with an artist mother always remembers making things. As a teen, she began oil painting and pastels and in College and Graduate School, she seriously pursued her studio practice majoring in studio art specifically painting and drawing. In 1985, Bocchino began to immerse herself in the New York Art World and began exhibiting her work professionally as an artist. Beginning in New York City's East Village to Tribeca to SoHo to the Lower East Side to Chelsea New York City, Bocchino has exhibited her work across the United States and Abroad. Her work method has developed from academic and traditional to the unique pouring method that she uses today. She has consistently worked on canvas and paper to explore and push parameters of the past in order to pioneer new processes. Utilizing paint and a variety of new materials, Bocchino continues to express an abstract dialogue with her work. This handsomely illustrated book is the first to document Bocchino's career as well as examine her work methodology and influences. The astute essays by Jonathan Goodman and Lisa A. Banner complemented by the contribution by Lily Zhang and a foreword by Kathleen Goncharov provide insights into Bocchino's paintings and drawings and the techniques she employs. Furthermore, these writings explore and analyze the idiosyncratic and deeply personal imagery that the artist creates. This book celebrates Serena Bocchino's inventive contributions to contemporary painting and drawing.?