Josette Urso

Josette Urso works directly and urgently in response to her immediate environment. She works with a playful sense of purpose, an exploratory urgency and a “moment-to-moment” focus. Urso has received a Gottlieb Foundation award, two Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants, a Basil H. Alkazzi painting award as well as residencies from the American Artist’s Abroad program (Cambodia), Ballinglen Arts Foundation (Ireland), Camargo Foundation (France), Stock 20 (Taiwan), Ucross (Wyoming) and Yaddo. She received her MFA (Painting) from the University of South Florida and currently works in Brooklyn.