Marcella Colavecchio

Marcella Colavecchio is an Austin based emerging artist whose towering figurative paintings explore timely concepts of gender and identity.

Using color as a catalyst for storytelling, Marcella uses her palettes to set the tone of her “mise en scene” before any of her actors have even uttered a word. Her aesthetic favors unnatural and exaggerated light sources, leaning into artificiality to create synthetic worlds, using lighting as a means of expression. While her paintings are momentous in movement and saturated with color, they are still silent, and create a voluble visual narrative on the relationship between people, their bodies, and freedoms.

These figures represent her desire to tackle issues around the push and pull of being a woman and the depiction of women in our society and popular culture. The female nude is traditionally painted under the male gaze, by painting herself in the nude, she challenges traditional dynamics by becoming both the artist and model, reclaiming power as the author and subject of her work.

2021 Atelier Dojo - Austin, TX, Classical Figure Drawing
2009 University of Connecticut, Bachelors of Science
2005 Lyme Academy of Fine Art, Human Anatomy and Figure Drawing

Solo Exhibitions
2021 Take Up Space, The Clever Tiger, Elgin, TX
2021 Censored, Roaring Artist Gallery, Houston, TX
2019 Irreversible Psychosis, Contracommon Gallery, Bee Cave, TX

Group Exhibitions
2021
Looking Up Mural fest, Something Cool Studios, Austin, TX
Hops for Hope, Central Machine Works in partnership with Hope Campaign, Austin, TX
We Speak for the Trees, Masonry Gallery at TreeGarden, Austin, TX
The Cathedral Group Exhibition - Austin Studio Tour, Austin, TX
Hope, Roaring Artist Gallery, Houston, TX
The Cathedral Open House - September, Austin, TX
The Cathedral Open House - August, Austin, TX
The Cathedral Open House - July, Austin, TX
The Cathedral Open House - June, Austin, TX
Connections, Roaring Artist Gallery, Houston, TX
Rise Up, The Austin Winery, Austin, TX
Provocateurs, West Chelsea Contemporary, Austin, TX
This Is Now, West Chelsea Contemporary, Austin TX

2020
Powerful Little Things, Roaring Artist Gallery, Houston, TX
Too Poor For Canopy, 906 Chote, Austin, TX
The Politically Incorrect Art Show, Something Cool Studios, Austin, TX
WHO ARE YOU?, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
Hear Us ROAR! Exhibition, Roaring Artist Gallery, Houston, TX
24th Annual No ...