About

As a child in Paraguay, Rosana Casco developed a passion for art at an early age, influenced by a multi-cultural family of artists, architects and musicians. Her formal training began under the tutelage of internationally renowned artist and professor Livio Abramo, who taught how art could be used to bring value and meaning to everyday life, revealing the rhythm of color and pattern, the dance between the paintbrush and canvas. Her early work was roughly figurative. It was organic and full of abstract life and motion that suspended ordinary movements in time and place.

Rosana states, “When I first moved to the United States from Paraguay, my work was lost as I tried to adapt to what was popular in the culture around me. But the work was heavy, rooted to a form and place that was foreign to me. With time I returned to my early use of lines, innate forms that are abstractions from the larger world around me. I found that I could connect the lines at a basic level, organizing color and motion.

“My work reflects the fact that art is not really about any one thing; it is a symbol for something else. It is a narrative that finds its own identity by what is originally brought to the painting. It extends the spiritual exploration of how life is meditation, a reflection of that which is at times transparent, at times open-ended, and ultimately connects the viewer to my art. Color in Motion is a celebration of how all in life is connected.”


Art Studies

1989
National University of Asunción, School of Fine Arts. Thesis: History and Techniques of Drawing in Pencil and Pastel. Superior Professor of Fine Arts Degree
1984-1988
National University of Asunción, School of Fine Arts. Asunción, Paraguay
1980-1983
Centro de Estudios Brasileros. Painting and Drawing
1976-1977
Centro de Estudios Brasileros. Painting and Drawing

Experience

1986-1989
Art Instructor, Asunción Christian Academy, Asunción, Paraguay
1987
Assistant Instructor of Fashion Design, Delego y la Moda, Asunción, Paraguay
1986-1989
Assistant Instructor of Painting and Drawing, Centro de Estudios Brasileros, Asunción, Paraguay

Exhibitions

2007
Karpeles Museum, Jacksonville, Florida
1994
Casa Italiana Art Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida
1994
Florida Community College of Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida
1994
The Frame Shop Art Gallery in Avondale, Jacksonville, Florida
1994
Merrill Lynch Funds Processing Group, Jacksonville, Florida
1993
Bentiles Gallery, Woodstock, Oxford, England
1992
Centro Cultural Paraguayo, Japonés Gallery, Asunción, Paraguay
1989
Magister Gallery, Asunción, Paraguay
1989
Nuevospacio, Asunción, Paraguay
1989
Club of Area 1 Gallery, Ciudad del Este, Paraguay
1988
Magister Gallery, Asunción, Paraguay
1985
Magister Gallery, Asunción, Paraguay
1985
Propuestas Gallery, Asunción, Paraguay
1984
Centro Cultural Paraguayo Alemán Gallery, Asunción, Paraguay
1982
Centro de Estudios Brasileros Gallery, Asunción, Paraguay
1981
Centro de Estudios Brasileros Gallery, Asunción, Paraguay
1976
Centro de Estudios Brasileros Gallery, Asunción, Paraguay