By Jeffrey Day, College of Letters and Science
A survey exhibition of 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Professor Annabeth Rosen鈥檚 groundbreaking ceramic sculptures, which has toured the country, opens in San Francisco on Thursday, July 25, with a free opening event Wednesday night, July 24. 鈥淎nnabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped,鈥 a 20-year-survey featuring 85 sculptures and drawings, will be on view at the through Jan. 19, 2020.
About the Exhibition
鈥淎nnabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped鈥 at Contemporary Jewish Museum through Jan. 19
Admission information and directions .
Free opening reception/preview, Wednesday, July 24, 7 to 9 p.m.
The exhibition was organized by the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and was also shown at the Cranbrook Art Museum at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Rosen earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from Cranbrook Academy in Michigan.
鈥淓xhibitions offer you opportunities to engage in a conversation with other artists,鈥 said Rosen, co-chair of the art and art history department and holder of the Robert Arneson Endowed Chair at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis.
Valerie Cassel Oliver, exhibition curator, discovered Rosen鈥檚 work while organizing another exhibition. Rosen and Cassel Oliver started out with a much smaller exhibition in mind, but it kept expanding.
鈥淥ne of the most rewarding aspects of what I do is getting to give artists a larger platform to have them better known,鈥 said Cassel Oliver, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. 鈥淎nnabeth is an artist鈥檚 artist; she has been an inspiration to generations.鈥
New work by Rosen, additionally, will be shown at the Virginia Museum starting in November in conjunction with the annual National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts taking place in Richmond, Virginia.
A free opening reception will be held at the Contemporary Jewish Museum Wednesday, July 24 from 7 to 9 p.m. Several programs will be held in conjunction with the exhibition, including an Aug. 15 performance by oboist Kyle Bruckman, who teaches in the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis music department.
More about the exhibition
The following description is on the museum's web site: Raised in Brooklyn by a working-class Jewish family, Rosen鈥檚 process 鈥 grounded in resourcefulness, endurance, and a strong work ethic 鈥 can be traced to her upbringing. Drawing from the ethos that everything broken can always be fixed or re-used, Rosen embraces the impulse to rescue or resurrect broken ceramic fragments. She sees both her studio and the kiln as spaces of invention, where process and chance are equally essential elements in the formation of her art.
For over two decades, Rosen has interrogated the medium of ceramics in a contemporary art context. Formally trained in ceramics, yet heavily influenced by painterly gesture, Rosen has expanded her practice to include conceptually-driven sculptural forms. Composed using laborious, additive processes, her works push the medium beyond spectacle and into conversations about contemporary painting, feminist theory, endurance-based performance, and conceptual art.
Rosen is a pioneer in the field of contemporary ceramics, bringing fluidity to the genre and its discourse with contemporary art. Within the genre鈥檚 trajectory, the artist functions as an important link among such artist as Lynda Benglis, Mary Heilmann, Jun Kaneko, Peter Voulkos, as well as a new generation of artists working in the medium.
Indeed, her linkage to such artists in the ceramics genre, and her own role in it, is feature in this San Francisco Chronicle published July 24.
Related stories on 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis sculpture:
Read a more in-depth about creation of the exhibition from 2017.
More photos and additional information .
Read a July San Francisco Chronicle about Rosen's work and that of other current 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis-affiliated sculptors at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis and in the region.
Read an Arts Blog story about alum Nancy Rubins' sculpture exhibition in London.
Below, a video production about Rosen's current exhibition in San Francisco.