BIOGRAPHY
Roberta Tucci started her career in New York City in the 1980’s. There she was greatly influenced by the Conceptual and Minimalist Art of her mentors at The School of Visual Arts. Her first exhibit of sculpture and painting was in 1984 at The Visual Arts Gallery in Soho.
Later, while studying in Rome in 1987, Roberta developed an interest in aged, distressed Roman frescoes and Etruscan wall paintings. During this period Roberta changed the focus of her work from sculpture to painting. To do so she applied pigmented wax on wood panel to build up and partly scrape off multiple layers of accumulating imagery. But unlike historic Roman and Etruscan painters, Roberta used her process of encaustic painting to create abstract forms from her own creative perspective.
Roberta’s work in encaustic continued until the late 1990’s, when she changed the primary medium of her painting from encaustic on wood to acrylic paint on stretched canvas. The change from wax to acrylic paint allowed her to produce much larger works, layering thin washes of color, glaze and varnish to develop paintings with even more strata of accumulated imagery. By using this technique, Roberta was able to produce the dynamic small, medium, and large projects that she continues to create today.
RESUME
One Person Exhibitions
"Large Works", Gallery 919, Wilmington, DE 2023
"Second Nature", The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE 2023
"Abstract Expressions from Nature", ARTSPACE at the JCC, Wilmington, DE 2022
"Roberta Tucci: New Paintings", DuPont Memorial House, Rehoboth, DE 2021
“New Abstractions: Roberta Tucci”, Dupont Memorial House, Rehoboth, DE 2018-19
“Roberta Tucci: Botanical Studies”, Bloomsbury Designs, Wilmington, DE 2013
“Roberta Tucci: Abstractions from Nature”, Arts Center/Gallery, Delaware State University, Dover, DE 2008
“Parallel Vision: USA/Italy”, City of Wilmington 2005
“Organic Expressions”, Delaware Division of the Arts, Wilmington, DE 2004
“Roberta Tucci: A Closer Look”, 11th & Orange Gallery, Wilmington, DE, 2002
“Roberta Tucci: Paintings”, MBNA America, Delaware State University, Dover, DE , 2001
“Organic Expressionism”, Center for Creative Arts, Yorklyn, DE, 2000
“Roberta Tucci: Wax Paintings”, Rehoboth Art League, Rehoboth Beach, DE, 2000
Group Exhibitions
"Converge", Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2024
"Gifted", The Art Trust, West Chester, PA, 2023
"Transference", Charm City Skate Park, Baltimore, MD 2023
"In the Umbra", Chimaera Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2023
"Inspire" Lumen Gallery, Wilmington, DE 2023
"81st Annual Exhibition", Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA 2023
"DSU Creatives", Rehoboth Art League, Rehoboth, DE 2022
"Artfest 2022", Camp Rehoboth, Rehoboth, DE 2022
Exposição SER MULHER HOJE, Almada, Portugal 2020
"215/610 Contemporary", Delaware County Community College Art Gallery,
Philadelphia, PA 2018
"Mixed Media", Blue Streak Gallery, Wilmington, DE, 2018
"Mid-Atlantic New Painting", Ridderhof Martin Gallery, University of Mary Washington, Frederick, MD, 2018
"11th Annual Juried Competition", Goggleworks Art Center, Reading, PA, 2017
“Five by Five”, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, 2014
“36TH Annual Juried Exhibition”, Hopkins House Gallery, Collingswood, NJ, 2011
“Reunion”, Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, DE, 2010
“Possibilities of Pause”, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE, 2009
“Vote Art”, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE 2008
“Pink”, Soho Myriad Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 2007
“Award Winners VI”, Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, DE, 2006
General Convention of the Episcopal Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2003
“Defining Women: Seven Artists from Delaware”, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE 2003
"Invitational Exhibit", Carspecken-Scott Gallery, Wilmington, DE, 2001
Collections
Charles Schwab Corporate Collection, CA
Delaware Art Museum Permanent Collection, Wilmington, DE
Delaware Contemporary Permanent Collection, Wilmington, DE
Episcopal Church of Delaware, Wilmington, DE
Omni Corporation Corporate Collection, Orlando, FL
Southern Progress Corporation Corporate Collection, Birmingham, AL
Wilmington Trust Company Corporate Collection, Wilmington, DE
Atlantis Hotel, Bahamas
Bellagio Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, NV
The Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas, NV
Christ Church Christiana Hundred, Wilmington, DE
Teaching Experience
Delaware State University: 2000-2022
Wesley College: 2000
University of Delaware: 1999-2000
Delaware College of Art and Design: 1997-1999