Hope Rovelto

Artist Statement

My work involves primarily contemporary issues in my own personal life as well as in the world around me. The individual and social topics I choose to depict are global issues that not only serve as a method in which to deal with my own frustrations with my past, present and future, but also serve as a way for viewers to think about frustrations in their own experience.

I am fascinated with depicting human experience and have often explored using chairs as a way in which to do so. I see chairs as a metaphorical symbol of human life and am attracted to the sense of emptiness that an unoccupied chair creates.