About
Born in Milan, Maria Scarpini graduated from Universita` Internazionale dell'Arte in Florence with a Diploma in Conservation of artworks. She worked for several institutions such as PAC in Milan (Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea), the Palazzo dei Conservatori and the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome, The Guggenheim Museum in New York.
She moved to NYC in 1996 and she opened her painting studio in Williamsburg in 1997. She is a self taught painter.
She opened Scarpinistudio Painting Conservation in 2003. Parallel to her painting activity, she has been an Art Conservator in private Practice from 1987 to these days.
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Between a Rock and a Hard Place, American University, Paris. curated by Jonathan Shimony.
2014 Governor's Island Art fair
2012 In Black & White The Cornelia Street Café New York NY
Group Exhibitions
2019, BronxArtSpace, Fever Songs a three persons show curated by Sabine Schumacher
Set design for the Opera Tools by Jed Distler , Libretto by Luigi Ballerini. Reading of the Opera with set design projections took place at the St Mark’s Church -in-the - Bowery
2012 Juried show Color! BWAC, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Juried show Black And White! BWAC, Brooklyn, NY
Group show Missing Missed, The Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, New York Curator: Scott Henstrand
2004 Dumbo Art Festival, Gold Track, a site specific installation Plymouth St, Brooklyn, NY
Set Design
In progress:
Set Design for the Opera TOOLS by Jed Distler, Libretto Luigi Ballerini
www.jdistleropera.com
www.jeddistler.com
www.luigiballerini.it
A reading of the Opera took place at Saint Mark Church-in -The Bowery in October 2019
Curatorial work
2012 The parallel world of Celia Cooke Selected Polaroids by Celia Cooke, The Cornelia Street café, New York, NY
The Parallel World of Celia Cooke
Awards
2011 Best in Show with opera Scratched. Black&White Juried art show, BWAC Brooklyn, NY
Publications
2020 Maria Scarpini Artist and Set Designer, by Jessica Robinson, The Berkshire Fine Art, June 19, 2020
2011 Missing Missed A fiber art Show, Exhibition Catalogue, BLURB
Writing and Translation
1999-2000 Considerazioni su scelte di ordine estetico nella pratica del restauro negli Stati Uniti. Progetto Restauro No 10. Il Prato Publisher, Padova, 1999
Translation On Humanism, Aesthetics and the Cleaning of Paintings by Gerry Hedley. Progetto Restauro Nos. 13, 14, 15. Il Prato Publisher, Padova, 2001
