Marisa Tesauro builds an aesthetically-asymmetric environment through installation. To render her work, Tesauro first makes numerous studies; she painstakingly sketches and photographs natural and man-made materials to form models before diving into sculpture. She distorts scale of and spacial relationship between objects based on a theatrical structure, where the viewer may enter the stage and play a part. Her medium oscillates between repurposed materials and constructed elements.

Investigating pervasive contradictions of nature and humanity, Tesauro proposes capricious relationships between simulation and authenticity, structure and replica, society and culture. Her work speaks of a “moment” by juxtaposing metaphoric and rhetoric discourse. She exploits diffused historical allusions, socio-culture and mass production by displacing context of the banal. In turn, Tesauro blurs the line between voyeurism and recognition.

Tesauro lives and works in New York City and Barcelona, Spain. She received a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, in 2001. Her work has been shown in New York and throughout Europe. In 2011, she received a Full Fellowship Award from the Vermont Studio Center. Tesauro’s work was most recently featured in Bronx Calling: The Second AIM Biennial at the UBS Gallery in New York City and has been shown at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute in New York City.

The artist’s site-specific installations have appeared at Eyebeam Gallery and with No Longer Empty, This Side of Paradise at the Andrew Freedman Home in New York City, at La Escocesa in Barcelona, Spain and at the Catoio Add’u Padizzu in Monasterace, Italy. She has participated in numerous group shows including ¨If you like it take it home¨ at ART BLOG ART BLOG, New York City, Out of the Ruins: Reimagining the Romantic Tradition at Newton Art Center, Newton, Massachusetts, Lo Studio dei Nipoti at Hillyer Art Space in Washington, D.C, The Spanish Sculpture Biennial in Vallodolid, Spain and Borne III, at Casaborne Gallery in Malaga, Spain. Contentrecently published an Artist Book by Tesauro entitled Strutture that combines her sculptural work with her photography and textual drawings.