Jocelyn Dorigatti is an oil painter based in northern Utah. Her work examines the intersections of memory, identity, and environemnt creating a dialogue between the past and present. Through vibrant, layered compositions, she explores themes of self-reflection and presence, often drawing from lived experience. Dorigatti is pursuing a BFA in Painting at Utah State University, where she has exhibited in multiple student exhibitions and continues to expand her studio practice.
My work explores memory, environment, and identity through a lens of vulnerability and self-reflection. Using reflection, shadow, and layered paint, I examine the tension between the external world and the inner self. At its core, the work is a search for safety, intimacy, and self-recognition within ordinary domestic spaces shaped by memory and emotional residue.
Home, in my work, is less a fixed place than a feeling—constructed through longing, familiarity, and the desire to remain. These spaces hold both the personal and the collective, inviting viewers to recognize their own histories within them. Reflections and overlapping imagery create a sense of longing, presence, and absence, suggesting the instability of perception and memory.
Rather than treating memory as a fixed archive, my paintings present it as an active, evolving dialogue between who we were, who we are, and who we are becoming. Through this process, the work opens space for compassion, self-understanding, and shared emotional recognition.