She received her BFA in Painting from MassArt in 2025, graduating with departmental honors while serving as President of the Student Government Association. 

Since graduating, Pietrorazio has exhibited her work throughout New England, highlights including shows with the Cambridge Art Association, the Wickford Art Association, the New Hartford Artisans Guild and her solo exhibition, Behind Her Lenses. 

At MassArt, she presented her debut solo exhibition, Dissociation Station (2024), and participated in the MassArt Auction. She is a recipient of the Phil Young Painting Prize, the Kofi Kayiga Auction Award, and MassArt’s Community Involvement Award. 

In addition to her studio practice, Pietrorazio is a co-founder of the Northeast Emerging Artists Association, an organization dedicated to fostering opportunities, community, and professional development for emerging artists across the region.

Artist Statement

My work explores my sense of self through the found, thrifted, and gifted objects I collect. I’ve always been drawn to toys, stuffed animals, ceramic figures, pots, vases, and other small artifacts that I felt an almost instinctive sense of life from, objects I encounter in thrift stores or receive from friends and family that seem to hold their own presence. This sense of a kind of soul in the inanimate has followed me throughout my life, and painting these objects allows me to share that feeling and understand it in a new way. With a focus on color, I repropose and breathe new life into things that may have gone to landfill otherwise. Over time, these objects have taken on a life of their own, my natural connection to them strengthening as I include them in my work.

A painting often begins with a personal theme or a particular object I feel called to paint without yet knowing why; its role becoming clearer as the piece develops. I often find the composition naturally reflects my interests or train of thought from the painting’s time of creation, mirroring my personal state in a way beyond just the study of the inanimate. The overcrowdedness of my compositions reflects the overcrowdedness of my thoughts (something I often experience with ADHD and chronic illness), creating a visual way of experiencing how my mind jumps from idea to idea. The paint itself provides a way to articulate this in ways that words cannot, vibrant color and expressive impasto painting making a different method of communicating more accessible when finding the words is difficult. This process becomes a form of self reflection, often leading me directly into the next painting. Ultimately these paintings join my collection transformed, over time becoming tangible emotionally resonant objects themselves.

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