James Rosen

Painter's Statement:

How little of the world we notice around us. How very much goes unnoticed. In these little watercolour-gouache studies, TREPASSEY TRISECTIONS AND PARALLELOGRAMS, I have attempted to abstract certain qualities which might make us more aware and appreciative of "what" we see and also "how" we perceive it. These works are abstractions: To be an abstraction is to be an entity that exists: the existence of a "thing" is only one factor of a more concrete component of reality. Through abstraction we see clearly that outside of our skins there is something going on in the world which is independent of any words we give it.

Education

Professor Rosen has taught painting and art history at the University of Hawaii, at the University of California at Berkeley, at Santa Rosa Junior College, and at Augusta State University where he was the first William S. Morris Eminent Scholar in Art. Since 1995, Professor Rosen has been an Artist/Critic with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

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Selected Solo Exhibitions (Include):

2008 - The Leyton Gallery of Fine Art, St. John's, Newfoundland
2006 - Art Gallery, Wake Forest Univesity, North Carolina
2003 - Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
2000 - Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
1998 - Georgia Museum of Art, Athens Georgia
1992 - Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California
1991 - Timken Art Museum, San Diego, California
1990 - Istituto d'Arte Dosso Dossi, Ferrara, Italy
1988 - Bluxome Gallery, San Francisco, California
1986 - Galleria Civica d'Arte Morderna, Ferraram Italy
1984 - Dana Reich Gallery, San Francisco, California
1982 - Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, California
1980 - Betty Parsons Gallery, New York City, New York
1976 - Joslyne Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
1974 - Betty Parsons Gallery, New York City, New York
1972 - Suzanne Saxe Gallery, San Francisco, California
1970 - Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California
1967 - Contemporary Arts Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii
1964 - Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan

Selected Group Exhibitions (Include):

2005 - Gallery Artist, Mary Pauline Gallery, Augusta, Georgia
1999 - "Homage to Betty Parsons", New York City, New York
1999 - "Newfoundland Drawings", Baird Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland
1998 - "Faculty Exhibition", Museum of American Art, Philadelphia
1997 - "Southern Drawl", Montgomery Museum, Montgomery, Alabama
1997 - "Searching for the Spiritual", De Pree Gallery, Hope Collage, Holland
1997 - "Body and Spirit" Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Georgia
1997 - "Body and Spirit" Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi
1991 - "Cheekwood National Contemporary Painting Exhiition", Nashville, Tennesse
1990 - "On the Edge", Rosa Esman Gallery, New York City, New York
1989 - "Inaugural Exhibition", Arizona State University Art Museum, tempe
1983 - "American Watercolours" San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
1980 - "Recent Acquisitions" San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
1977 - Parsons-Dreyfuss Gallery, New York City, New York
1973 - "Spring Penthouse Show", Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York
1971 - "Colour Field Eighteen-Ninety to Nineteen-Seventy", Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Cleveland Art Museum, Dayton Art Institute