Rozanne Hermelyn Di Silvestro is a visual artist whose practice spans painting and printmaking. She studied art and design at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design before founding her own award-winning design firm in San Francisco. After more than two decades in design, Rozanne shifted her focus to fully embrace her voice as a fine artist.
Her work has been exhibited at the Triton Museum of Art, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Sonoma County, Janet Turner Print Museum, The Art Complex Museum, and the Museum of Los Gatos. Her pieces are also held in the permanent collections of the Harvard Art Museums and the Library of Congress. In addition to her exhibitions, Rozanne’s work has been featured in Reed Magazine, California’s oldest literary journal, and The California Printmaker journal.
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“I believe art mirrors life—and life is messy. It’s beautiful and brutal, tender and raw. I’m drawn to painting the ‘ugly’ things in beautiful ways, not to hide them, but to invite reflection. I want viewers to pause, to question, to see a side of life they might otherwise avoid or overlook.”
Oil painting was my first love, but I’ve developed an enduring romance with monotype printmaking. A monotype begins as a painting on a smooth plate, then passes through an etching press to transfer its image to paper. It’s a process of constant push and pull—adding and subtracting, revealing and obscuring—where light and dark are in constant dialogue. Each print is one-of-a-kind, existing in the in-between space of painting and printmaking. The technique invites spontaneity, gestural abstraction, and a kind of emotional excavation. For me, it’s a way of discovering life in the shadows.”