NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio:
Jessica Deane Rosner primarily works on paper with ink, gouache, watercolor and pencils to create labor intensive, intricate drawings. Within every series and across media that include paper, thread, and text, she strives for control allowing mistakes and accidents to remain visible, revealing a measure of fragility and humanity.
Rosner holds a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art. Her works on paper are in public and private collections including the RISD Museum of Art, Smith College, and Miami Univ.(FL). She has exhibited nationally at galleries and museums including the de Cordova Sculpture Park and Museum, MA, The Rosenbach Museum, PA, and the RISD Museum of Art, RI. Rosner has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, and at the V.C.C.A. She is represented by McKenzie Fine Art, NYC.
Rosner is a full-time studio artist in Cranston, Rhode Island.
Original NetWorks Catalogue Bio:
Jessica Deane Rosner was raised in Manhattan and received her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art, where she majored in enameling. Back in New York, Rosner worked in enamel and then jewelry before relocating to Cranston, Rhode Island, almost thirty years ago. She began to work in pen and ink, eventually finding satisfaction in two distinct kinds of drawing: narrative with text and purely abstract explorations. She says “in both genres I like my work to show my hand and to illustrate a certain density of page, so that even if all there is, is line, there will be may of them and the final image will be as complete an exploration of line as I can achieve.” The Diary Project, which combined both stylistic elements, was shown in its entirety at the DeCordova Museum, and she has exhibited her abstract ink drawings in Boston, Rhode Island, and New York.
Source: NetWorks 2013 – 2014 Catalogue
Ink on paper, 5 x 8 in.
Credits:
Video:
Richard Goulis
Mike Turecamo
Executive Producer: Joseph A. Chazan, M.D.
Additional Resources:
Artist’s website: jessicadeanerosner.com
Highlighting the work of selected artists who have played vital roles in shaping the contemporary visual arts community in Rhode Island. This collection of brief video portraits provides a window into the lives, practices, and cultural contributions of professional artists.
