Origin: Prato, Italy
Currently Exhibiting in: New York City
Website: rosatielisa.com
Social Media: Instagram | LinkedIn
Bio:
Elisa Rosati, born in Prato, Italy, is a multidisciplinary artist and fashion designer who seamlessly bridges the worlds of art, design, and craftsmanship. Her studies in art history, literature, and philosophy at Oxford shaped her creative vision, allowing her to approach her work with intellectual depth and instinctual passion. While her primary medium is fashion, Rosati considers painting a deeply personal and emotional outlet, one where her raw expressions can find their place on canvas.
Now based in New York, Rosati transforms hand-drawn sketches into evocative digital prints in her fashion work, while her paintings explore emotional and subconscious states. Drawing inspiration from 20th-century Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism, her dynamic brushstrokes, layered surfaces, and instinctive approach evoke dreamlike compositions that speak to the inner workings of the mind. Influences from filmmakers like David Lynch and artists such as Francis Bacon and Helen Frankenthaler further inform her expressive, hybrid artistic process.
Featured Artwork at Bushwick Gallery
Inseparable Echoes
- Year of Creation: 2025
- Medium: Oil on Canvas
- Dimensions: 24″ x 30″
- Price: $900 USD
Description:
Inseparable Echoes reflects the complex emotional interconnection between love and heartbreak. This oil painting explores the entangled nature of these dual forces through swirling brushstrokes and abstract forms that intertwine like figures from a dream. Inspired by subconscious imagery and surrealist influences, Rosati uses rich, overlapping layers to create a piece that evolves upon closer observation, revealing hidden emotions and shifting meanings.
Drawing on Freud’s dream theories and David Lynch’s exploration of distorted realities, Rosati’s dynamic composition invites viewers to interpret its visual cues based on their own emotional experiences. The painting’s depth and movement embody the emotional highs and lows of relationships, making it a powerful contribution to the exhibition’s theme.
Exhibition Information
Exhibition Title: Love and Heartbreak: A Duality
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 13 / 6PM-8PM
Exhibition Dates: February 13 – February 20
Theme: Exploring the tension between passion and pain, this exhibition juxtaposes the full spectrum of emotions that define human connections. Elisa Rosati’s Inseparable Echoes delves into the subconscious effects of love and heartbreak, using abstraction to create a visual dialogue of intertwined emotions. With influences from surrealism and abstract expressionism, Rosati’s work invites viewers to embrace both the beauty and the turmoil of intimate relationships.
Guided audio experience
For accessibility, the full video transcript is provided below for those who prefer to read or are unable to listen.
“Love and heartbreak are not opposites. They do not cancel each other out. Instead, they coil around one another, inseparable, like figures caught in a dream. In Inseparable Echoes, Elisa Rosati captures this entanglement—where emotions do not end but shift, transform, and bleed into one another.”
“There are figures here, but they do not fully emerge. Faces dissolve, limbs entwine, brushstrokes carve movement into the canvas. The colors—molten reds, deep violets, flickering golds—suggest fire and shadow, passion and memory. There is a push and pull, a dance between presence and disappearance. This is not a singular moment frozen in time. It is something shifting, elusive—like the remnants of a dream upon waking.”
“Rosati draws from surrealist cinema, from the subconscious landscapes of Lynch, from Freud’s theories of dreams where symbols reveal emotions too deep for words. The figures in this painting seem to know each other, to recognize themselves in one another, yet they are slipping away, folding into the currents of paint. Love leaves imprints. So does loss. They echo, endlessly.”
“As the movement unfolds across the canvas, the textures, curves, and hidden faces invite deeper reflection. What appears? What fades? Perhaps, in these echoes, there is something familiar—of a love remembered, of a heartbreak that still lingers, of the way emotions refuse to stay separate, even when untangling them seems inevitable.”