Monique Rollins: Welcome to Electric Ladyland

From 19 September to 16 November 2024

metroquadro Corso San Maurizio 73/F 10124 Torino

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Monique Rollins:

“Welcome to Electric Ladyland”

September 19-November 16, 2024
Curated and catalog by Roberto Mastroianni

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Catalog Prinp editore
metroquadro
Corso San Maurizio 73/F
10124 Torino
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Monique Rollins, born in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1980, is a contemporary painter known for her vibrant exploration of color, inspired by the tones of the Venetian Renaissance and the natural and urban landscape of contemporary Italy. After earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree from Syracuse University in New York in 2002, she furthered her art studies by earning a Master of Science degree in Art Theory, Criticism and History with a specialization in the Venetian Renaissance and a Certificate in Museum Studies from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.

Rollins’ work consists of oil paintings, acrylics, charcoal drawings and paper-on-canvas collages, using different mediums, including pencil, acrylic, watercolor, pen and ink and, in his latest production, textile material.

Throughout his career, Rollins has exhibited in prestigious galleries and art institutions in America, Europe and Asia. Metroquadro gallery since 2012 has presented his work in three solo exhibitions and one group show, as well as six editions of Art Miami Context, between Miami and New York.

The exhibition “Welcome to Electric Ladyland” offers an overview of Monique Rollins’ most recent artistic production, side by side with earlier works, tracing an excursus of her career. A monographic catalog edited by Roberto Mastroianni, published by Prinp Edizioni d’Arte, accompanies the exhibition, providing further insights into the artist’s creative journey.

Excerpt from the text by Roberto Mastroianni:
In effect, Rollins’ post-expressionist abstraction manages to generate an aesthetic space that presents as a portal to another dimension in which thoughts, imagination and spirit come together, giving life to a multiplicity of aniconic narrations that question the observer and establish a dialogue with them around the existential issues of the human being. The beneficiary is encouraged to follow the forms and colours of the works as if they were maps for inner voyages and, when they believe they have achieved a final understanding or to have listened to the last verse of this silent music, then suddenly a new story seems to begin, a new symphony of colours and forms.
Roberto Mastroianni

Works

Monique Rollins

BRR: Bochner, Row, Rollins

Monique Rollins: To be a person

First Italian exhibition of Monique Rollins