Clarissa Tossin
Clarissa Tossin: Bridging Cultures Through Material Engagement Clarissa Tossin (born 1973, Porto Alegre, Brazil) is a Brazilian visual artist who employs installation, video, performance, sculpture and photography to negotiate the hybridization of cultures and the persistence of difference. Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 1973 and currently residing in Los Angeles, USA, Tossin received an MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 2009. She has held exhibitions individually at Harvard Radcliffe Graduate Studies (Harvard University, USA), The Blanton Museum of Art (Austin, USA), and The Mus…
The Subject Atlas
A chart of Clarissa Tossin's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Spokes — Subject
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Rings — Career Period
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Threads — Shared Context
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
