Some of her exhibits include:
Sun Day On The Mile, Art Festival
Nova Southeastern University - In Exile, Echoes from Haiti and Cuba
Merrick Festival of the Arts
Gallery Night at Casa Juancho
Coral Gables Women's Club Art Auction for Creative Beginnings Organization.
Genesis House Benefit Auction
Miami's First Wine Club
Art Night at the Biltmore Hotel
Vizcaya Art Auction (To Benefit Vizcaya Restoration Fund).
Cultural Council's, Saturday & Sunday In The Park With Art.
Casa Jauncho Gallery Nights
As part of Hispanic Heritage month, Marcy has recently been chosen among top artist to participate in the "Hispanic Art Expressions"sponsored by Miami Dade County Hispanic Advisory Board's.
South Miami Art Festival
Palmetto Bay Art Festival
Pinecrest "GARTens" Art Festival
David's Cafe, South Beach - "Espresso"
Sun Day On the MIle 2005
As part of Hispanic Heritage month, Marcy has recently been chosen among top artist to participate in the "Hispanic Art Expressions"sponsored by Miami Dade County Hispanic Advisory Board's.
AWARDS:
South Miami Art Festival, Sponsored by Chamber South selected Grosso's work to represent 2004 Art Festival Poster.
Winner Second Place Ribbon, South MIami Art Festival
Winner First Place Ribbon, Pinecrest GARTens Art Festival 2004
Winner of Third Place Ribbon, Sunday On The MIle 2005.
Passionate dancers caught in mid-swing to a pulsing salsa beat. A smoldering kiss enveloped by a sultry Miami night. Cups of espresso whose aromatic steam seems to swirl right off the canvas toward your nose.
These are some of the dramatically distinctive neo-impressionistic images created by Miami acrylic artist Marcy Grosso, whose original work “Party On, Miami!” graces this year’s official poster for Carnaval Miami 2010, Miami’s gala celebration of Hispanic art and culture in Miami March 5-14.
Grosso’s life and art embody the bridging of traditional Cuban culture and modern American dynamism: Literate in the romantic Spanish sentiments of the past, yet comfortably situated in the unaccented English currents of contemporary Miami.
Grosso began drawing and painting as a child in her native Cuba, sometimes sneaking into the kitchen and drawing on the walls with charcoal from the stove.
She arrived in the United States at age 8 with her family, and enrolled in private art classes at age 10. She was president of the Honors Art Club at Coral Park Senior High. She later attended International Fine Arts College and studied commercial art. This led to positions as a designer for Cosmopolitan Magazine (in Spanish) and art director of Ideas Para Su Hogar magazine. Her illustrations appeared in the popular women’s magazine Vanidades for 10 years.
Grosso spent five fulfilling years as a stay-at-home mom raising her children Emily and Harry. As they reached school age, the lure of the paint brush pulled Grosso back to the easel.
Subtly influenced by impressionist masters Paul Cezanne and Vincent Van Gogh, Grosso let her creativity flow untethered. She works solely on black canvases, giving her paintings – lush with fiery reds, browns and ochres, offset by explosions of whites, blues, greens and yellows – a deeply compelling richness and personality. Her loose and spontaneous brushwork – she never uses prior tracing or penciling – directly channels her emotions. Even as she begins a painting, she’s never quite sure precisely what form the final image will take – until it leaps forth from the canvas.
Grosso’s work has steadily earned increasing appreciation as a bold and sumptuous expression of South Florida life and culture. Her paintings have been exhibited in prestigious art shows including the Coconut Grove Art Festival, Art Expo Las Vegas, the Beaux Art Festival and Carnaval on the Mile, Coral Gables. Her many honors and distinctions include a commission by Bank United to create the official Town of Miami Lakes poster. She designed the official 2004 South Miami Festival poster, and the Taste of Miami Lakes poster 2010 (to be presented Feb. 21).
The Kiwanis Club of Little Havana unveiled Grosso’s “Party On, Miami!” as its official Carnaval Miami 2010 poster Jan. 29. It will be seen everywhere representing what is widely regarded as the largest party in the Hispanic market, opening with Carnaval on the Mile in Coral Gables March 5 and concluding with the Calle Ocho Festival March 14.
