Rose Luardo

A woman for whom pleasure is found in creating vibrant art installations and thrilling/unpredictable performances. Feast your eyeballs.

Rose began her performance career after graduating from New York University and deciding to move to Philadelphia where things were a bit grittier. She became acquainted with the art collective Space 1026 and began working on various performance shows. Her first participation at Space 1026 Gallery was in Smash it, Break it, Eat it a combination of food, sculpture, and performance art show. 

In her pursuit of the perfect blend of art, comedy, physical theater, and performance she began work with Thom Lessner and formed the musical group Sweatheart. It has been said, if the seminal fluid of Sparks, Prince, Plander Z, and Kate Bush were harvested and then combined to make a rock and roll band child, that musical concoction would be Sweatheart. Sweatheart has graced the stage with acts such as DEVO, The Darkness, Hank and the Cupcakes, and Santigold. The group has also been featured in VICE magazine’s Practice Space, Anthem Magazine, and Dazed and Confused. 

Rose was tapped by musician Santigold to perform as both singer and hype-woman. All this, while holding down her clown work as a make-up consultant at Sephora.

Rose is a graduate of the Headlong Performance Institute where she studied Comedia dell’Arte and physical theater. What a ride! After graduating, Luardo began producing one-woman performance works that marry her fine art and performance practices. She continues to create performance installations. She has produced work for Good Good Comedy Theater, The Next Festival, Whartscape, Printed Matter’s Art Book Fair, The Creator Festival, The Cannonball Festival and countless art galleries.

For several skanky years, Rosie baby works with fine artist and comedian Andrew Jeffrey Wight as the performance art, writing, and comedy duo The New Dreamz. Together they wrote a series of children’s programs for Comcast and host/produce Comedy Dreamz which shows in NYC and Philadelphia.

Rose exhibits her fine art in solo and group art shows. Her most recent gallery show, Emotional Fracking, at Space1026, lead to the creation of her infamous Boob Garden.

Right now her favorite movie is John Carpenter’s The Thing.