The Armory Show 2025: Angelo Vasta

For The Armory Show 2025, Rebecca Camacho Presents is thrilled to exhibit a selection of new oil pastel works on paper by Italian-born, Brooklyn based artist Angelo Vasta, in BOOTH P17.

Vasta’s self-taught drawing practice is informed by his multi-disciplinary background, which is rooted in filmmaking. A trained cinematographer and videographer, Vasta spent a decade building a strong reputation collaborating with dance companies, arts institutions, and publications such as The New York Times dance section. Throughout his career as a filmmaker, Vasta developed an eye attuned to color, composition, and movement. Shifting from moments that are energetic and active to those that are still and quiet, his works are imbued with a sense of motion. Vasta’s drawings are akin to film stills that capture fleeting time and represent the unexpected and beautiful. 

For this new series, Vasta has created his largest and most densely scaled compositions to date with dancers pictured in choreographed ensembles and sequenced movements. Flattened forms and expanses of muted colors are punctuated by figures that stretch, bend, and leap. Cocooned within a world of carefully considered colorful palettes and vivid patterns, each drawing evokes a sense of intimacy.  The drawings coalesce into a poetic flurry of dynamic and vibrant movement, of spirited bodies alive and in community with one another, of joyous life.

Angelo Vasta (b. 1987, Milan, Italy) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received his BFA at the Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy in 2010 and a certificate in Film Production from The New School in New York in 2014. Vasta's practice incorporates film, still photography, and drawing.

As a filmmaker, he has collaborated with dance companies, including the New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Batsheva, Trisha Brown amongst others; arts institutions; and publications such as The New York Times.

Vasta's work has been featured in solo and two person exhibitions at Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco, CA (2025); Tappeto Volante, Brooklyn, NY (2024) and Karma Bird House, Burlington, VT (2023). His work was recently included in a group exhibition at Marinaro Gallery, New York, NY (2025).