Jane Rosen Works Biography
JANE ROSEN
Born New York, NY 1950
B.A. New York University 1972
Art Students League 1975
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, WY, Red (Rufous)
2016 Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID, H is for…
2015 Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY, Cash / Morandi
2014 Tayloe Piggott Gallery, WY. Pasture
2012 Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID, light morph / dark morph
Cynthia Reeves Projects, Hanover, NH, Full Circle
2012 light morph / dark morph, Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
2011 Wild Life Braunstein-Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Second Nature, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, WY
2010 A Class of Birds,Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Summer Bird, Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
New and Selected Works, JH Muse Gallery, Jackson,WY
2008 Posted Turning, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Gamut, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 Mei Mei Series, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
Re:incarnations, Gwenda Jay / Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 Tracking, Friesen Gallery, Seattle,WA
2005 Wheel of Nature, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
2004 Coastal Influence, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 Alpan Gallery, Huntington, NY
2002 Small Scale, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Reading Tea Leaves, Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1996 Joan Roebuck Gallery, Lafayette, CA
1995 Movement and Rest, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
Movement and Rest, Colgate University Art Museum, Hamilton, NY
1993 Better Nature, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
Joan Roebuck Gallery, Lafayette, CA
1992 Mincher-Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 Mincher-Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 Sun/Moon, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Oak Island Studies , Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Forming, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1980 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1978 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1975 Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY
1974 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 The Spectrum of Women, Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
Material Matters, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
2017 Forge and Stone: Work by Contemporary California Women Sculptors, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA
Touchstones, Totems, Talismans: Animals in Contemporary Art, Brattleboro Museum& Art Center, Brattleboro VT
Powder and Smoke, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Material Matters, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Into the Deep, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
Intimate Sculpture, Winfield Gallery, Carmel , CA
Summer Salon, Sears Peyton Gallery, NY
2016 Summer Salon: Powder and Smoke, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
We Move Through Time Together, Sears Peyton Gallery, NY
Bird in the Hand, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
Material Matters, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
2015 Preview 2015, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Jim Campbell: New Work and Collaborations with Jane Rosen, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Animalia IV, Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
State of Nature IV, Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
Terra Cognita, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Gallery Artists Group Show, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Material Matters, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC
2014 Marks & Conversations, Contemporary Painting & Sculpture, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Jane Rosen & Raphaëlle Goethals, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
State of Nature III, Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
A Menagerie of Metaphors, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA
Wings & Wheels, Phoenix Airport, curated by the Phoenix Arts Commission, Phoenix, AZ
Compelled by the forces of Nature, Metro Show, curated by Michael Klein, NYC
Shades of White, Traver Gallery, Seattle WA, curated by Bill Traver
A Gathering with Dozier Bell, Catherine Hamilton, Jane Rosen and Kiki Smith,
Welch School of Art and Design, Welch Galleries, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA curated by Cynthia Farnell
2013 Form and Place; Jane Rosen / Ann Hollingsworth, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
State of Nature II, Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
Animalia II, Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
2012 Past as Prologue – Preview 2012 Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
Creative Nature, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Phoenix,AZ
Conference of the Birds, Cynthia-Reeves Projects, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2011 Nature Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
Works on paper II, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
Armory Show, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
The Nature of Glass, Shack Art Center, Everett,WA
Heritage Bank, San Jose, CA. Curated by Jane Salvin
Conference of the Birds, curated by Cynthia Reeves, NH
2010 Intimate to Monumental, Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
Art in Embassies Exhibition, Lisbon, Portugal
For Love of Paper, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson WY
Other as Animal, curated by April Gornik, Danese Gallery, NY
Invitational Exhibition ofVisualArts,AmericanAcademy of Arts and Letters, NYC
Future Tense: Landscape in Transition, curated by Dede Young, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, NYC
Jane Rosen & James Castle, Dallas Art Fair, Dallas,TX
2009 Jane Rosen and Ed Musante, Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
Super Flat, Braunstein Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Ashes to Ashes, Life and Death in Contemporary Glass, , Virginia Commonwealth Center, Virginia Beach, VA
Natural Blunders, De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Holiday Special: Gallery Group Show, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Contemporary Drawings and Works on Paper, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
2008 Collaboration,Traver Gallery, Seattle,WA
The Fine Art of Banking, Heritage Bank, San Jose, CA
2007 Migration, Friesen Gallery, Seattle,WA
Migration, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
2006 From Nature, Gwenda Jay/Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
About Glass, Friesen Gallery, Seattle, WA
Shifting into Balance, Buckhorn Sculpture Park, Petaluma, CA
Alignment, Friesen Gallery, Seattle,WA
2005 Jane Rosen, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Speaking Volumes, curated by Judith Tolnick Champa Fine Art Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island, RI
2004 Group Show, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Mode and Ceremony, curated by Dan Kany, Friesen Gallery, Seattle, WA
Ten and a Billion, curated by Jane Salvin, Heritage Bank, San Jose, CA
2003 Squeak Carnwath, Judy Pfaff, Jane Rosen: Drawings, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
From Surface to Form,William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Medium Rare, curated by Dan Kany, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
2002 Contemporary Sculpture, curated by Art Source, 505 Montgomery, San Francisco, CA
Darkness and Brightness, Sears-Peyton Gallery, NewYork, NY
25th Anniversary Show,William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
2001 On the Wall / Off the Wall, curated by Gwenda Jay, Gwenda Jay / Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
Limited Editions, Phoenix Arts Commission, Phoenix, AZ
Invent / Imagine, curated by Art Source, Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, CA
Kick Back, Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California at Berkeley, CA
2000 Looking Towards the Future, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, CA
Boom Boom, Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California at Berkeley, CA
Material Transformations, curated by the San Francisco Art Institute and Art Source, A.T. Kearney, San Francisco, CA
Etherton Gallery,Tucson,AZ
1998 Faculty Show,Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California at Berkeley, CA
Drawn Together, Drawn Apart, Judy Pfaff, Jane Rosen, Kendall Fine Art, Hudson, NY
Flora, curated by Douglas Maxwell, Elise Goodheart Fine Arts, Sag Harbor, NY
1997 Visiting Artists,Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California at Berkeley, CA
Spring Benefit Show, Sculpture Center, NY
1979-97 Visual Arts Gallery, curated by Jerry Saltz, New York, NY,
The Horse as Icon, Mirren Gallery, CA
On the Rim, curated by Tessa Wilcox of Art Source,Transamerica, San Francisco, CA
1996 Rosen, Reynard, Spheris Gallery, NH
Sculpture: Review / Preview, Cohen Berkowitz Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1995 Paper View, Cohen Berkowitz Gallery, Kansas City, MO
The Organic, Greene County Council on the Arts, Catskills, NY
The Body as Metaphor, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Sculpture, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
Visiting Artists, Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California at Berkeley, CA
1994-95 Preview, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Inaugural Exhibition, Evans, Gropper,Willis Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Breaching Containment,The Gallery,Three Zero, NY
Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
1991 40 Years of Exhibitions, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, NewYork, NY
1990 Group Show, Mincher-Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 CLIMATE 89, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Art on Paper 1988,Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Sculpture / On the Wall / On the Floor, Katzen-Brown Gallery,NewYork, NY
1987 New York-Beijing: 22 American Artists Works on Paper, Beijing Art Institute,Shanghai Art Museum, China, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
Constructs, Anita Shapolsky, New York, NY The Human Form /The Spiritual Vision, Alexander Wood Gallery, NewYork, NY
The Level of Volume, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Alternative Supports: Contemporary Sculpture on the Wall, David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI
1986 Illuminations:The Art of our Future,Art et Industrie, NewYork,NY
Universal Images: People and Nature in Sculpture, 909 Third Avenue, New York, NY
Martina Hamilton Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Avenue C by the Sea,Tower Gallery, Southhampton, NewYork, NY
Deeker Gallery, Maryland Institute College, B altimore, MD
1982 Agitated Figures:The New Emotionalism, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, curated by Hal Bromm
1981 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
Figuratively Sculpting, Art and Urban Resources, P.S. 1, Queens, NewYork, NY
1980 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
Sculptures, Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NewYork, NY
Current/New York, Joe and Emily Lowe Gallery, Syracuse, NY
1979 Webb and Parsons Gallery, New Canaan, CT
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1978 Private Myths, the Queens Museum, Queens, NY
Constructs, Organization of Independent Artists, NewYork, NY
1976 Approaching Painting, Ashford Hollow Foundations, Buffalo, NY
1975 112 Greene Street, New York, NY
Painting Alive and Well, Brainard Art Gallery, State University of New York at Potsdam
AWARDS
2015 Arts and Letters Award, Academy of Arts & Letters Invitational Exhibition, New York
2010 Purchase Award,Academy of Arts & Letters Invitational Exhibition, New York, NY
2008 Artist in Residence, Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, WA
1999 Artist in Residence, Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, WA
1988 MADEIN / Luso-American Foundation Grant
1982-83 CAPS, Full Award in Sculpture
1980-81 NEA, Full Award in Sculpture
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2018 Gentry Magazine, January 2018, A Keen Perspective by Jill Layman
2017 Material Matters, Exhibition catalog, Seager Gray Gallery
Red (Rufous) Exhibition catalog, Tayloe Piggott Gallery
Forge and Stone, Exhibition catalog, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art
2016 H is for… Exhibition catalog, essay by Douglas F. Maxwell, Gail Severn Gallery
Material Matters, Exhibition catalog, Seager Gray Gallery
Finesse Magazine, The Evolution Issue Vol. 10 Laurie Frankel photographer
2015 Cash-Morandi, Exhibition catalogue, Sears Peyton Gallery
Charles Desmarais, SF Chronicle review Art and Technology a Tricky Pairing, December 9, 2015 Terra Cognita, Exhibition catalog, Seager Gray Gallery
2014 A Menagerie of Metaphors, Maier Museum of Art, catalogue Kathy Muehlemann
Michael Klein January Newsletter, Jane Rosen, The Morandi Series
Pasture. Exhibition catalogue, Jane Rosen at the Tayloe Piggott Gallery
A Gathering, Exhibition catalogue, issuu.com
2013 Form and Place: Jane Rosen/ Ann Hollingsworth, Exhibition catalog, essay by Maria Porges, Seager Gray Gallery
Form and Place, Squarecylinder.com, review David M. Roth
Best of 2013, Squarecylinder.com, David M. Roth
2012 inside the artist’s studio, 7 x 7 magazine, November 2012
light morph / dark morph, Exhibition catalog, Gail Severn Gallery
Conference of the Birds, Exhibition catalog, Cynthia-Reeves Projects
2011 Works on Paper II, Exhibition Catalog, Danese Gallery Seeing (Fall issue), Parabola,
interview by Richard Whittaker
Art in Embassies catalog, Lisbon, Portugal
Baker, Kenneth, SF Chronicle review Wild Life, April 30
Whittaker, Richard, profile Jane Rosen “Wild Life”, Squarecylinder.com, May 1, 2011
Second Nature, Exhibition catalog,Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson ,WY
2010 Other as Animal, Exhibition Catalog, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
A Class of Birds, Exhibition Catalog, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
Cochran,Tracy.“ A Class of Birds,” Parabola Editors Blog, September 13, 2010
2009 “New & Selected Works Review”, Jackson Hole News & Guide, November 25, 2009
2008 Castro, Garden Jan. Sculpture Magazine, October. Spicer Jakki,Artweek, May 2008,Vol. 39, Issue 4
2007 Whittaker, Richard, Jane Rosen, “East and West”, No. 15
“Works and Conversations Alan Artner”, Chicago Tribune, May 18, 2007
Whittaker, Richard, “The Conversations, interviews with sixteen contemporary artists”, Whale and Star press
2006 Kangas, Matthew, The Seattle Times, October 2006
2005 Baker, Kenneth, Art News, November 2005
Reviews: National, Judy Pfaff and Jane Rosen, Braunstein/Quay, San Francisco November, 2005
Norris, Doug, “URI ias ‘Speaking Voumes’ in latest exhibition North-East Independent Journal, June 30, 2005
Baker, Kenneth. “Pfaff and Rosen at Braunstein/Quay”, San Francisco Chronicle, April 16, 2005
2002 Byrne, Chris. “The Original Print: Understanding Technique in Contemporary Fine Printmaking”, Guild Publications, 2002
Catalog, Fine Art Collection of the U. S. Embassy in Tunis, Tunisia, October 2002
1998 Braff,Phyllis. “Art Reviews”, New York Times, August 9,1998
Gambino, Erica-Lynn. “Symbolism in Two Shows”, Southampton Press, August 8, 1998
D’Arcy, Joan. “Exhibits pays homage to …”, Daily Freeman, Kingston, February 20, 1998
1996 Thorson,Alice .“Group Counterpoint”, Kansas City Star, June 21, 1996
1995 Whittaker,Richard.“Jane Rosen:Artist andTeacher”, T.S.A.,Winter, 1994/95
1993 Hodder, Monroe, “For Pleasure,” Artweek, November 4
Bowen, Dorothy.“Bird’s eye view of art gallery,” Contra Costa Sun, Oct. 24, 1993
“Hawks inspire. . .,” Contra Costa Sun, October 12, 1993
Phillips, Patricia C. Review,Artforum, Summer, 1993
1990 Bass, Ruth. Review,ARTNews, April 1990
1988 Gibson, Eric.“Nature and Sculpture:A New Subjectivity Takes Root,” Sculpture, September / October 1988
Yau, John.Artforum, March 1988
1987 Westfall, Stephen.Art in America, July 1987
Gibson, Eric. Review, Sculpture, May / June 1987
Sofer, Ken. Review,ARTNews, May 1987
1982 Klein, Michael. “Review”, ARTNews, October 1982
Friedman, Jon. Review,Arts, September 1982
Smith,Roberta.“Group Flex,”, The Village Voice, June 22
Flood, Richard.“Agitated Figures:The New Emotionalism,” catalogue, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, 1982
Siegel, Jeanne, “The New Reliefs,” Arts, April 1982
1978 Siegel, Jeanne, “Recent Colored Reliefs,” Arts, September 1978
Loring, John. Review,Art in America, May / June 1978
Bell,Tiffany. Review,Arts, May 1978
Ellenzweig,Allen.“Private Myths,” catalogue, the Queens Musuem, 1978
Glueck, Grace, “Greater SoHo-Spring Guide to Downtown Art World,” New York Times, March 31, 1978
1975 Review,Arts, December 1975. Review,Arts, January 1975
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1996-06 Special Lecturer, University of California at Berkeley Art Department, Berkeley, CA
1998 Research Fellow LaCoste School of the Arts, France
1995-96 Milton Avery Distinguished Visiting Professor
Bard College, Annandale-on-the-Hudson, NY
1994-95 Special Lecturer University of California at Berkeley Art Department, Berkeley, CA
1993 Visiting Consulting Professor Stanford University Art Department, Stanford, CA
1990-92 Visiting Assistant Professor University of California at Davis Art Department, Davis, CA
1985 Visiting Professor Maryland Institute, College of Fine Arts, Baltimore, MD
1978-89 Senior Faculty School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
SELECTED VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
Bard College, Annandale-on-the-Hudson, NY
Cleveland Art Institute, Cleveland, OH
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Elvehjem Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
LaCoste School of the Arts, LaCoste, France
Parsons School of Design, NY
Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, WA
School of Visual Arts, NY, NY
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
University of California at Davis, Davis, CA
University of Montana at Bozeman, Bozeman, MT
COLLECTIONS
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Berkeley Art Musum, BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA
Brooklyn Museum, NY
Chase Manhattan Bank, NY
Chevron Corporation, CA
Ciba-Geigy Chemical Corporation, Ardsley, NY
Douglas Maxwell, NY
Eric Fischl and April Gornik
Grace Borgenicht Collection, NY
Lowe Art Museum, FL
Luso American Foundation, Portugal
Maier Museum of Art, Virginia
The Mallin Collection, Buckhorn Sculpture Park, CT
Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester, University of Rochester, NY
Mitsubishi Corporation, LA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY
Novell, Provo, UT
Phoenix Arts Commission, Phoenix, AZ
Proskauer, Rose, Goetze and Mendelsohn, NY
Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, NJ
Scottsdale Museum of Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Sonoma State University Art Collection, Rohnert Park, CA
U.S. Consulate Guangzhou, China, US Department of State, Art in Embassies
U. S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq
U. S. Embassy in Tunis, Tunisia
Yellowstone Museum, Billings, MT
