Annabeth Rosen

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Annabeth Rosen
NationalityAmerican
Alma materAlfred University, BFA 1978; Cranbrook Academy of Art, MFA 1981
Known forCeramic Sculpture
AwardsAmerican Craft Council College of Fellows (2018),
Websitehttp://www.annabethrosen.net/

Annabeth Rosen (born 1957 Brooklyn, NY) is an American sculptor, and the Robert Arneson Endowed Chair at University of California, Davis,[1][2][3]

Biography[]

Rosen received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1978 from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in Alfred, New York. She then received her Masters of Fine Arts in 1981 from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.[4]

She taught at Bennington College, from 1993 to 1997.[citation needed] She has taught art at the Rhode Island School of Design, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the University of the Arts.[4] She has been the at the University of California, Davis since 1997.[5]

Artwork[]

Explosions of rich thick patterning often characterize Rosen's work.[6] Her art is most commonly the result of compiling many small organic sculptures of clay to create a much larger, more energetic and dynamic composition. Her ceramic sculptures a conventional material (clay) in unconventional ways.[5] Rosen's work is rooted, historically, in tile making. At the beginning of her career she made traditional tiles. She began to question the line between craft and art, which caused her to cover her entire apartment in tiles transforming it from a mundane to a spectacular interior space. Her piece entitled Sample helps define where she has gone with her work today. Her work is based on the ideas of functional pottery, decorative architecture and abstract sculpture but her interest is in how her ideas involve and inform the material.[7]

Another underlying theme in Rosen's work is violence. When she was a child she often watched violent action films. Her studios in New York and Philadelphia were in dangerous neighborhoods so Rosen was constantly surrounded by violence and she found herself intrigued by it. This influence of violence is clearly evident in her raw forms and her approach to aesthetics.[6] The violence is expressed in Rosen's work by her rough touch. Her raw forms clearly illustrate the forcefulness and roughness in which she touches clay.

While Rosen used to make traditional tiles she is best known for her ceramic sculptures. Rosen's work is fabulously, gorgeously useless; it acquires its form and purpose from extended dialogue with the functional.[8] She sculpts numerous abstract organic forms and from these individual units creates an entirely new sculptural form. The subunits of clay in her sculptures usually mimic something in nature like a seedpod or a flower. The glazing of her work is generally very colorful and exuberant, meant to contrast with her raw and earthly forms.

Awards and Honors[]

In 2018 Rosen was inducted into the American Craft Council's College of Fellows.[9]

She has received numerous awards including two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a 1992 Pew Fellowship in the Arts, a 2018 Guggenheim fellowship, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Award.[5] She received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Cranbrook in 2019.[9]

Exhibitions[]

  • 1993 "The American Way". Aberystwyth Arts Centre [3]
  • 2004 "Surface & Element", Solomon Dubnick Gallery[10]
  • 2007 New Langton Arts:[11]
  • 2008 Gallery Paule Anglim[12]

References[]

  1. ^ UC Davis art studio faculty
  2. ^ Performance Studies: Affiliated Faculty Archived June 10, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Annabeth ROSEN Ceramics Collection Aberystwyth and Ceramic Information 9th October 2010". Archived from the original on July 8, 2011. Retrieved October 9, 2010.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "Annabeth Rosen". Art Studio. Retrieved March 21, 2020.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c Whitney, Kay (April 18, 2019). "Annabeth Rosen: Five Conversational Fragments". Sculpture. Retrieved March 21, 2020.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Scott Chamberlain, "Gravity and Levity," Because the Earth is 1/3 Dirt, CU Art Museum, 2004, 39–43.
  7. ^ Brown, Glen R. Annabeth Rosen: Between Drawing and Sculpture, Ceramics: Art and Perception, 2008, No. 72, 62–64.
  8. ^ Jo lauria, Bay Area Ceramic Sculptors, Ceramics: Art and perception, May 2005, No. 59,16–17
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b "Annabeth Rosen and Sonya Clark Named to American Craft Council College of Fellows". Cranbrook Academy of Art. February 12, 2020. Retrieved March 21, 2020.
  10. ^ Solomon Dubnick Gallery – Surface and Element
  11. ^ New Langton Arts – San Francisco Art Galleries: January 18, 2007
  12. ^ Annabeth Rosen Archived July 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine

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