Annabeth Rosen
P·P·O·W
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March 24 > 27, 2021
P·P·O·W is pleased to announce a solo presentation of works by Annabeth Rosen for Art Basel's OVR: Pioneers. A ceramicist, educator and mentor, Rosen's formidable, abundant work has extended the trajectory of ceramic forms inherited from Peter Voulkos, Robert Arneson, and Mary Heilmann to new generations of artists. Following the critical success of her traveling survey exhibition, Fired, Gathered, Broken, Heaped, organized by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Rosen’s work has been heralded for its sensual immediacy and unbridled scale. Over the past three decades, her distinguished reputation within ceramic communities has progressively gained broader reach and her accomplishment as a sculptor has been increasingly recognized.
Directly confronting the aesthetic and physical relationships between sculptural form and painterly surface, Rosen’s ceramic sculptures explore the essential properties of clay, slip and glaze. With its composite materials and chemical properties, her formally intuitive process is enabled by a complex understanding of ceramic history placing her work in the tradition of experimental yet masterful sculptors including Lynda Benglis, and Martin Puryear. From the vantage point of her decades of technical expertise, Rosen’s radicality challenges the historical strictures of the medium by embracing the sculptural fragment and the taboo of “imperfection”.
Rosen has been honored with a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and a Joan Mitchell Award for Painting and Sculpture. In 2018, Rosen was awarded the Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In the commendation for her award, the Academy summarized Rosen’s practice as follows: “[Her] career marks a welcome feminist rejoinder to the macho posturing all too common in previous generations of clay artists. Her conglomerate forms are a compression of industrial, organic, and sexual matter that speak to a multiplicity of abundance and claustrophobia. They are beautiful and urgent.”
Annabeth Rosen (b. 1957) received her BFA from Alfred University and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has held the Robert Arneson Endowed Chair at the University of California Davis since 1997 and has taught at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Rhode Island School of Design, Tyler School of Art and Bennington College. She has received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Pew Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, several UC Davis Research Grants, and a Joan Mitchell Award for Painting and Sculpture. Rosen’s work is in the collection of the LA County Museum of Art, The Oakland Museum of Art, The Denver Art Museum, and The Everson Museum, as well as public and private collections throughout the country. Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped, opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in 2017 and traveled to the Cranbrook Art Museum in 2018 and The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco in 2019. Fables, a one-person exhibition of new sculptures and works on paper, is currently on view at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art.
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Directly confronting the aesthetic and physical relationships between sculptural form and painterly surface, Rosen’s ceramic sculptures explore the essential properties of clay, slip and glaze. With its composite materials and chemical properties, her formally intuitive process is enabled by a complex understanding of ceramic history placing her work in the tradition of experimental yet masterful sculptors including Lynda Benglis, and Martin Puryear. From the vantage point of her decades of technical expertise, Rosen’s radicality challenges the historical strictures of the medium by embracing the sculptural fragment and the taboo of “imperfection”.
Rosen has been honored with a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and a Joan Mitchell Award for Painting and Sculpture. In 2018, Rosen was awarded the Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In the commendation for her award, the Academy summarized Rosen’s practice as follows: “[Her] career marks a welcome feminist rejoinder to the macho posturing all too common in previous generations of clay artists. Her conglomerate forms are a compression of industrial, organic, and sexual matter that speak to a multiplicity of abundance and claustrophobia. They are beautiful and urgent.”
Annabeth Rosen (b. 1957) received her BFA from Alfred University and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has held the Robert Arneson Endowed Chair at the University of California Davis since 1997 and has taught at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Rhode Island School of Design, Tyler School of Art and Bennington College. She has received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Pew Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, several UC Davis Research Grants, and a Joan Mitchell Award for Painting and Sculpture. Rosen’s work is in the collection of the LA County Museum of Art, The Oakland Museum of Art, The Denver Art Museum, and The Everson Museum, as well as public and private collections throughout the country. Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped, opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in 2017 and traveled to the Cranbrook Art Museum in 2018 and The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco in 2019. Fables, a one-person exhibition of new sculptures and works on paper, is currently on view at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art.
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