IMAGIO Artist Rocco Pisto

Rocco Pisto earned a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Eastern Michigan University in 1974.  He is the current President of the Michigan Watercolor Society.  Rocco has been a painter for over five decades.  As a painter for over fifty years, I never tire of the experimental process of starting a piece and solving the design problems along the way to make it a finished work.  Spontaneity, discovery, individuality, analysis, visual balance, contrast, and contradiction all summarize my thought process.  I find that no two paintings are the same, and I cannot paint the same thing twice.  My technique of painting abstractly by dripping, pouring, splashing, and brushing paint allows the work to evolve until it meets my criteria of what constitutes a successful piece of art. The adrenaline of marking pristine, white Arches Watercolor paper with paint is a euphoric process that never loses its newness or interest.”  Lost in the Mist #3 is an IMAGIO Glass piece.  The original art was digitized, blown up and imaged on the back of the glass.  There is a series of four pieces that make up this collection.