Terry Rosenberg
Terry Rosenberg (born 1954) is an American artist known for painting, sculpture, and drawing that reference the body.
Biography
Rosenberg was born in Hartford, Connecticut and raised in Miami, Florida. He received an A.A. from Miami Dade College in 1974, an BFA from the University of Miami in 1976, and an MFA from Alfred University in 1978. Rosenberg then moved to New York City and began exhibiting cowhide sculpture and related drawings at Hal Bromm Gallery in 1980. He also produced big un-stretched canvases on which he paints figural polymorphs, as well as suites of small drawings and collages with figural motifs. Rosenberg’s sculpture developed a paradigm preoccupied with scoring and folding continuous surfaces produced from sheet materials that were at times transparent and projected with light.
In 1994 the Sheldon Museum of Art organized Terry Rosenberg, Inside the Dance, an exhibition of drawings created during rehearsals of dancers and dance groups including American Ballet Theatre, Dance Theater of Harlem, and Mark Morris Dance Group. The drawings are active meditations in the present tense, on the synthesis of light, dynamic structure, and space/time relationships.(1) In 2002 the book Figuring Motion: Terry Rosenberg was published in conjunction with an exhibition of paintings that was presented at the University of Wyoming Art Museum, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art and others.(4) Rosenberg was awarded an individual artist fellowship by New York Foundation for the Arts and residencies at the Kohler Arts/Industry Program and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. Rosenberg lives and works in New York City.(1)
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions of Rosenberg’s work include MoMA PS1 / Clocktower Gallery, Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Tufts University Art Gallery, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Centro Nacional de las Artes / Mexico City, Frances Wolfson Art Gallery/ New World Center, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and BM Contemporary Art Center / Istanbul.
Group exhibitions include Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, MoMA PS1, São Paulo Bienal, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Hayden Gallery at MIT, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Queens Museum, The Sculpture Center, Göteborgs Konsthall, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Mudima Fondazione per l'Arte Contemporanea / Milan.
Collections
Rosenberg’s work can be found in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Albertina, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Walker Art Center, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Berkeley Art Museum, South London Gallery, Smart Museum of Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Musee d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain Nice, Arkansas Arts Center, Sheldon Museum of Art, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca, Spencer Museum of Art, Joslyn Art Museum, Frost Art Museum, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Addison Gallery of American Art and others.
References
1. http://art.state.gov/artistdetail.aspx?id=158504 2. http://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/23/arts/critics-choices-for-thanksgiving-holiday-weekend.html 3. http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471998710.html 4. http://www.artnet.com/artists/terry-rosenberg/biography
External links
Further reading
Figuring Motion: Terry Rosenberg, Smart Art Press, 2002, ISBN 0-9643821-1-3http://www.smartartpress.com/products/1222 Terry Rosenberg, Drawings, Inside the Dance, 1994, Sheldon Museum of Art, 1994, ISBN 0-9643821-0-5 http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010673252 Generatrix, Terry Rosenberg, 1995, UNO Editions, ISBN 0-914034-60-Xhttp://www.unomaha.edu/nbac/unoedcat.html Terry Rosenberg, Drawings and Sculpture, Frances Wolfson Art Gallery, 1984 http://www.worldcat.org/title/terry-rosenberg-drawings-and-sculpture-january-6-to-february-10-1984-frances-wolfson-art-gallery-mitchell-wolfson-new-world-center-campus-miami-dade-community-college/oclc/81759123