Roma

"...Grosso chooses to concentrate on capturing through paint the light of the city, and simply ignores the history of styles. She also pays no attention to the array of contemporary styles, those of “concept art”, “politically correctness’, or “magic realism”. Instead, by concentrating on the fleeting qualities of light, Grosso bypasses sentiment, sociology and the politics of picturesqueness. She allows the forms that fall into her view to build their own abstract relationships in a manner reminiscent of Morandi, and she finds magic in the straightforward depiction of those forms. “Optical correctness” becomes the equal of “political correctness”. Laura Grosso elevates the act of concentrated seeing and it’s recreation through paint, to equal status with those other styles."

Painting Yesterday’s World Today, by Philip Pearlstein