Vickie Marsango

Abstract art thrives in the unpredictable space between knowing and feeling, serving as a profound and immediate language of emotion and experience. My paintings emerge from a dynamic balance between analytical structure and raw creative energy. I continually return to the foundational elements and principles of art, such as composition, color relationships, line, and gesture, while allowing intuition to guide the work into uncharted territory.

Each painting is approached without a fixed formula, beginning instead with close observation of the visible world. From landscapes, seascapes, or everyday forms, I extract essential lines and shapes, then deconstruct them through expressive mark-making and contour drawing. Details dissolve. What remains is a vague, open framework. Through the slow accumulation of layers, I rebuild the image into an abstract field that holds both memory of the original subject and the immediacy of pure emotion.

My work is deeply rooted in the legacy of American Abstract Expressionism, particularly the paintings of Joan Mitchell and Cy Twombly. Years of studying their techniques and processes transformed my earlier representational landscapes and seascapes into unconstrained, expressionistic statements. The resulting paintings carry both raw physicality and refined sensitivity. Gestures feel urgent yet carefully orchestrated, while layers of depth reveal both struggle and resolution.

Ultimately, I seek to create work that communicates beyond words, where viewers project their own emotions and memories into the tension between structure and freedom, presence and absence.