Vanessa Powers is a figurative oil painter whose work uses a visceral symbolic language to navigate her inner world and how it relates to our current cultural climate. Her surreal paintings explore themes including grief, vice, mortality, and resiliency. She uses her paintings to articulate a personal spirituality with an emphasis on the significance of ritual, memory, and the profoundly human impulse of ceremony.
Vanessa exhibits her work both nationally and internationally with recent exhibitions at Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco, La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles, and the Surreal Salon juried exhibition at Baton Rouge Gallery in Louisiana. Her work was recently installed in a NYC subway station in billboard scale ad space with the art nonprofit Chashama and the Metropolitan Transit Authority.
Previous projects include her painting “Choice or Fate” printed as a billboard in Brooklyn with the nonprofit SaveArtSpace in 2019 and the inclusion of her mural in “Anthropocene” a curated mural cycle at First Street Green Art Park in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 2018. Vanessa received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and is currently based in and from New York.
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