Marissa Paternoster: “The Artist Need Not Suffer”

Space 1026 is excited to present a solo exhibition of Marissa Paternoster’s artwork!

Dear World,

Marissa Paternoster was born very small in Elizabeth, NJ. She grew slightly larger over the ensuing years, during which she went to college in a drug haze, learned guitar strums, ate many eggs (not all at once), and finally moved in with wonderful friends and a perfect dog in Philadelphia.

With these works she asks, “WHY MUST THE ARTIST SUFFER?” Must the artist suffer? Maybe the artist can just chill out and have a good time. We may never know what is possible in art. But Marissa is, at this very moment, not suffering.

She is napping.

By Dawn Riddle