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Rose Seccareccia is a multidisciplinary artist, licensed mental health provider and native New Yorker. Ovum: Sacred Feminine navigates personal and collective myth-making, the natural world, and the liminal space where dreams and waking intersect.

In her embroidered works, Seccareccia remembers recurring dreams with pieces like In the Belly of the Night Toad, and in others, gets granular in her articulation of lichen, wood mold and fungal spores—exploring growth in decayed spaces.

The True Story of Zig Jim, begun years ago and now reprinted, is a traditional fairytale written and illustrated in block prints that tells the adventure of a dreamer drawn to the sea, of love and disaster, and a rescue mission.

Seccareccia’s quilted work reimagines canonical hagiographies by Giotto, Masaccio and Fra Angelica, to instead stitch the stories of mythical and historical women through the traditionally feminine art form of quilt making and embroidery.

These mediums are all presented in dialogue.

From Dust You Are, 13 x 10” ; Love Bug, 8.5 x 11” ; In the Belly of the Night Toad, 11x9”, hand embroidery on linen

Rose Seccareccia is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist and licensed mental health provider. Her mediums include embroidery, painting, printmaking and performance. Rose holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she studied printmaking and performance art. After graduation, Rose trained at the Work Center of Thomas Richards and Jerzy Grotowski in Pisa, Italy, and assistant art directed at Dangerous Ground Productions in New York City. She subsequently taught visual art at Harlem Children’s Zone and coordinated touring and production at Performa. As the Creative Arts Coordinator at The Bridge, a behavioral health organization, Rose directed therapeutic art groups for re-entry citizens and persons with severe mental illness and substance use disorder. Rose has shown her work at Duplex Gallery and Gallery M in Manhattan and currently works out of her studio in West Harlem.

Io’s Torment, acrylic on canvas; Light Keepers, watercolor on paper

Siren Cove, 11x14” block print on paper

banner image: Little Heaven, 7 x 5.5”, hand embroidery on hand dyed cotton