The Tourist

The paintings in this show are created through a mixture of chance and intention, blending personal and public archival photographs of the artist’s life through a unique visual lens. We encounter portraits and observations, images of feelings and moods. For the artist, the role of paparazzi photography lends the portal through which to capture a voyeuristic experience of his life.

The paintings that make up this show reflect this splitting between the personal and the public and a feeling of alienation. The artist’s use of a distinctive palette creates a timeless quality, with the works existing simultaneously in the past and present. In this way, the paparazzi lens takes on a new meaning, as the images are made personal to Rocco.