Contemporary Mixed Media Artist
Fox Valley, Illinois Artist & Artist'  Creative Collective founder
ARTIST PROFILE
Joy Ascolese-Rosini is a contemporary mixed media artist whose work explores the complexity of
the human experience, identity, emotion, vulnerability, resilience, and the stories that exist beneath
the surface. Through expressive color, texture, layered imagery, and symbolism, Joy creates work
that invites connection, reflection, and conversation.
ARTISTIC PRACTICE
• Acrylic and mixed-media painting
• Palette-knife, tactile surfaces and expressive texture techniques
• Layering, making, and dimensional surface work
• Gold foil/leaf and symbolic mixed-media elements
• Symbolism and dimensional details
• Themes of emotion, identity, healing, imagination, nature, travel, and human stories
SELECTED SERIES & BODIES OF WORK
• Behind Her Eyes Explores hidden emotional experiences, vulnerability, resilience, and the
unseen stories carried beneath the surface.
• Find Your Inner Child A playful, energetic mixed-media work encouraging curiosity,
spontaneity, freedom, and reconnection with childhood joy.
• Underneath it all speaks of texture, layered emotions that embody the feelings of grief.
Donated for a fundraiser to benefit a grief counseling facility
• Myth & Imagination Watercolor Uses symbolism and imaginative imagery to explore
wonder, transformation, and the stories we create.
• Floral Watercolors Draws on organic forms, natural imagery, to create visual experiences.
• Figurative & Emotional Focuses on identity, emotion, human connection, and the
complexity of inner experience.
EXHIBITIONS
• Behind Her Eyes Sep-Nov 2026 Vicinity 2026 exhibition at Norris Cultural Arts Center
in Saint Charles, IL.  
COMMUNITY ART & CREATIVE ENGAGEMENT
Artist' Creative Collective Founder/organizer of a monthly gathering for like minded artists to
create, connect, socialize, share ideas, and inspire one another. 
CURRENT CREATIVE DIRECTION
Joy is developing a broader art practice that combines studio work, community connection,
exhibitions and events, commissions, and an online artist portfolio. Her creative work centers on
using art to turn personal and shared experiences into visual stories that encourage curiosity,
empathy, and connection.