Jane Rosen

“My work and my life seem to negotiate the boundaries between perception and cognition, between nature and culture, between people and place. There is an interest in studying the relationship between animal nature and our own better human nature, which seeks to inform the work. The materials seek to reconcile the disparities between surface and form in that the markings are the growth of the form itself. I have chosen materials such as marble dust mixes, stone and glass, which have been worked in both an additive and reductive manner. Most of the work I have done in these materials have been relief pieces where both the illusion of physicality and the physicality of the form come into play. The pieces deal with what touching a form looks like; trying not to make an image of an animals' head but rather what touching the form would look like as it is perceived by my hands. What does touch look like. Seeing through touch."

-Jane Rosen

 

Jane Rosen lived, worked, and exhibited in New York for twenty years. In 1989 she moved to a horse ranch in San Gregorio, California. Rosen has taught art at a number of colleges and universities since 1978 including the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, the University of California at Davis, Stanford University, and the University of California at Berkeley, where she currently teaches.