On the cover:
June 20 through July 26, 2024
179 10th Avenue
New York, New York
Josette Urso makes paintings, watercolors and drawings in an urgent attempt to capture the essence and energy of whatever surrounds her – be it a landscape, a subway, an apartment view, or a dinner table. Her approach involves moment-to-moment extrapolation governed by intuitive leaps of scale, color and wayward geometry. She works from observation - intuitively, playfully - in a process that makes room for many visual surprises and an enormous range of inventive mark making. She says, “In painting, I'm responding to shape and form and the light and the experience of space. I'm looking off in every direction simultaneously, so the pieces are getting a bit more abstract, but they're still all based on looking. I find that my visual vocabulary is much broader if I respond to something as a jumping off point rather than relying on what's in my head.
I'm always trying to hunt for some kind of surprise. I don't want to ever know. I thrive on the ‘not knowing.’ It's like this journey, stumbling upon situations you didn't know existed until you discover them through your work. I never know how the painting's going to look until it happens; I just kind of figure it out along the way. ”
“Runwith You,” 2024 oil on canvas 36 x 48 inches
36 x 48 inches
“Poolside,” 2024 oil on canvas
“Sundial,” 2024 oil on canvas
48 x 36 inches
“Corduroy and the Fern,” 2024 oil on canvas
36
x 48 inches
“Cascade,” 2024 oil
48 x 36 inches
on canvas
“Landline,” 2024 oil on
48 x 36 inches
canvas
“My
2024
48 x 60 inches
Stars,” oil on canvas
“Daybreak,” 2024 oil on canvas
60 x 48 inches
“Superbloom,” 2024
oil on canvas
30 x 24 inches
“Elsewhere,” 2024
oil on panel
30 x 24 inches
“Afternoon Shower,” 2024
watercolor on paper 9 x 6 inches
“Climb,” 2024
watercolor on paper 9 x 6 inches
“After the Rain,” 2024 watercolor on paper 9 x 6 inches
“Scuba,” 2021 watercolor on paper 9 x 6 inches 15 x 12 inches framed
“Autumn Ride,” 2024
watercolor on paper 6 x 6 inches
“Skylawn,” 2021 watercolor on paper 9 x 6 inches 15 x 12 inches framed
watercolor on paper
6 x 6 inches
watercolor on paper
6 x 6 inches
“Picnic” 2022 “Lake and Sky,” 2022
watercolor on paper
6 x 6 inches
watercolor on paper
6 x 6 inches
“Sea Star,” 2022 “Distant Wood,” 2022
“Nest,” 2023
watercolor on paper 6 x 6 inches
“Silent Afternoon,” 2022
watercolor on paper 6 x 6 inches
10 x 10 inches framed
“Tabletop,” 2023
watercolor on paper
6 x 6 inches
“Bella,” 2022
watercolor on paper
6 x 6 inches
“Summer Rain,” 2023
watercolor on paper 6 x 6 inches
10 x 10 inches framed
“Beach Day Violet,” 2022 watercolor on paper 12 x 16 inches
watercolor on paper
12 x 16 inches
watercolor on paper
12 x 16 inches
“Blue Sand,” 2022 “Sea Chain,” 2022
“Ocean
12
Swan,” 2022 watercolor on paper x 16 inches
“From Here,” 2024 watercolor on paper
30 x 24 inches
“Bluebell,” 2024 watercolor on paper
30 x 24 inches
“Cadaques C,” 2020
pencil and collage on paper
3 x 3 inches
7.25 x 7.25 inches framed
“Cadaques D,” 2020
pencil and collage on paper
3 x 3 inches
7.25 x 7.25 inches framed
“Cadaques B,” 2020
pencil and collage on paper
3 x 3 inches
7.25 x 7.25 inches framed
“Cadaques E,” 2020
pencil and collage on paper
3 x 3 inches
7.25 x 7.25 inches framed
“Cadaques A,” 2020
pencil and collage on paper
3 x 3 inches
7.25 x 7.25 inches framed
“Cadaques G,” 2020
pencil and collage on paper
3 x 3 inches
7.25 x 7.25 inches framed
