Victor Grasso

Victor's works grab your mind, sprit, senses and childhood simultaneously and immediately. It's all of Jules Verne, Tim Burton and Lucian Freud at once. It's dark and its whimsy. It's sensual and childlike. Andrew Wyeth with fisherman's muscles. It's a jocular and hallowed family. Fusion is a word that comes to mind. It's based in reality but vivid with alternate universes suffused with reverence for the body. There is juxtaposition of the beauty and noir that inhabit recesses of our minds, and never see the light of day until Grasso puts it on canvas. Objects, people, events, contexts that should not exist together nor imagined to our eyes are evident on the screen of Victor's mind duplicated in oils. He rediscovers the ochre, blacks and whites of the past and reimagines the future. Triptychs, deserts, deep sea creatures are all found not in their neighborhood nor habitat. It's as if Spielberg found Mallarme. Fellini found Tim Burton may be more apt. Gorgeous women, tentacles, business suits and archaic deep sea helmets with apparatus that find their way comfortably into his canvasses. Oceans, skulls, bathtubs, crocodiles and bikinis - fully sensible and natural in Grasso's world. Panoramas, wind blown skeletonized trees; seascap...

Self Taught

Selected solo Exhibition

2016 Anchorless, Soma Gallery, Cape May, NJ
2015 The Naturalist, SOMA Gallery, Cape May, NJ
2014 The Sea is Calling, SOMA Gallery, Cape May, NJ
2014 Fable Continued, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
2013 Fable, The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ
2013 The Great White Hunt, Soma Gallery, Cape May, NJ
2012 Somewhere Beyond The Sea, Soma Gallery, Cape May, NJ
2011 New Paintings and Drawings, Soma Gallery, Cape May, NJ
2010 Up From The Wreckage, Soma Gallery, Cape May, NJ
2008 For The Love Of The Deep, Soma Gallery, Cape May, NJ
2007 Goat Head Gumbo, Soma Gallery, Cape May, NJ
2007 Fresh Off the Chopping Block, BIG YELLOW CHURCHCape May, NJ

Selected Group shows

2016, Halcyon, Raison D'etre Gallery, Southampton, NY
2016 The Invisible, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
2015 [CUBED], Baker + Hesseldenz Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2015 Silver Vs Gold, Robert Lange Studios, Charleston, SC
2015 2nd Annual Group Show, Baker + Hesseldenz Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2015 In The Way Of Beauty, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
2015 1st Annual Small Works, Baker + Hesseldenz Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2015 "POW, WOW", Honolulu Museum of Art School, Curated by ThinkSpace Honolulu, HI
2014 Size Matte...