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Boat/Beak, Jane Rosen, 1993, Brooklyn Museum: Contemporary Art

© Jane Rosen Medium: Fiberglass resin and pigment on wood

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/148921

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Jane Rosen at Sears Peyton gallery

One of the best shows of the new season in Chelsea is at the Sears Peyton gallery, “"Cash-Morandi”, the elegant and remarkable sculpture and drawings of Jane Rosen. Confronting and perhaps paying homage to Giorgio Morandi while maintaining ones own artistic integrity must be a daunting task. For Rosen, I believe this began any number of years ago when she started making pieces by blowing glass. When she recognized the sanctity of the objects that emerged from the process of expelling breath, she could appreciate why Morandi refused to allow his vessels ever to be  dusted. Morandi was a painter, so his object muses remained in 2 dimensions

While Rosen’s artistic translations require 3 dimensions made out of kiln cast glass, limestone, marble and pigment.

But Rosen was not finished with her journey. She needed to integrate the Morandi like objects with her own signature objects, the birds. The resulting “Morandi Installation” whose effect is bordering on the ethereal, but is as rock solid as the limestone that makes up the bases.

Taking as much from Egyptian prototypes of heiratic sculptures

as from the magical mixture of form and materials of Brancusi’s “"Bird in Space”, 

the “"Morandi Installation” amounts to a shrine. It is an “object” lesson For younger artists as to how to assimilate the work of another while maintaining ones own artistic integrity.

As the title of the show indicates, there is another component, Cash, one of Jane Rosen’s extended animal family. Cash was a magnificent horse who graced Rosen’s farm for years and recently passed on. She has memorialized him with drawings

in which she equates  and integrates the Morandi objects; sculptures of hooves (I swear I can picture the entire horse)

 and what I can only describe as drawing in sculpture.

The horse has been portrayed for centuries in the history of art either as an attribute to be ridden by a hero or for purposes of personifying emotions a la George Stubbs. Rosen, rather, treats Cash as a true being with personality. The result is that the exhibition is one of portraits, Cash and Morandi, who’s essences are sifted through the alchemical creativity of Jane Rosen.

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Jane Rosen at Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College

Gail Severn Gallery artist Jane Rosen is one of the featured artists for the Maier Museums "A Menagerie of Metaphors" opening September 12th, 2014

A Menagerie of Metaphors, curated by Kathy Muehlemann, Randolph College professor of art and department chair, highlights the work of artists who use images of animals in their art, including Jane Alexander, Louise Bourgeois, Nick Brandt, Walton Ford, Jenny Lynn McNutt, Jane Rosen and Kiki Smith.

Muehlemann describes the premise of the exhibition:

Animals present a rich trove of associations. As interwoven as they are in our literature, art, and daily life, they maintain an otherness as well. These seven artists present a wide range of responses to the animal. The gaze and the answering gaze within these works set in motion many emotions. The enchanted realm of animals has many doors to enter and mirrors back to us a spirit.

This exhibition will be on view through Sunday, December 14.

Click here for Link to Maier Museum