Rose marasco
Iris Project Resident: February, 2022
Rose Marasco Rose Marasco is a prolific photographer and holds the role of Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of Southern Maine. Marasco began the photography program at USM where she taught for 35 years. Marasco is currently finalizing work on a book of photographs and text entitled, At Home: Photography, History, and Me. It is a memoir and meditation on the history of photography from one of New England’s most respected artists. The book features short personal writings on topics ranging from artist’s residencies and iPhone photography, to the early death of her father, and includes selections from several bodies of work from Marasco’s long career. Shifting fluidly between images and texts, the artist shares the evolution of her artistic process, interrogates key moments in photography’s development, and invites readers to explore their own creativity. The Foreword, by esteemed historian, Lucy Lippard, situates Marasco as a key feminist voice among practitioners of vernacular photography. Marasco has had significant solo shows at the Portland Museum of Art, the Houston Center for Photography, Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France, three solo shows at the Sarah Morthland Gallery NYC, at Meredith Ward Fine Art NYC, the Ogunquit Museum of Art, and The Farnsworth Museum of Art. She has lectured about her work at Harvard University, Parsons School of Design, the Center for Photography at Woodstock and numerous other colleges and museums across the country. Marasco has a B.F.A. from Syracuse University and a M.F.A. from the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York where she studied with Nathan and Joan Lyons.