Maya Frodeman Gallery is pleased to present Aviary, integrating brand new work from Jane Rosen's California studio with a continuation of the artist's immersive solo exhibition Posted / Turning from the summer of 2024. In the sunlit gallery, Aviary cogently displays the immense range of the artist's scope, following over forty years of the study, emulation, and immersion of herself in nature. If da Vinci's Codex on the Flight of Birds (1505 - 1506) brought us the concept of human flight, Rosen's Aviary brings us rather to the aerie of the self; the artist's lifelong pursuit of the sublime, something that speaks to the better nature found within us all. Three towering, watchful owls, one in carved French limestone and two in hand blown and pigmented glass, Burgundy rose marble and limestone, perch alongside a curated selection of work from this monumental exhibition. Two introspective Paterson Wall Birds in rough limestone take their names from both a William Carlos Williams longform poem and the Jim Jarmusch film (2016). A pair of ravens, Posted / Turning, themselves symbolic of thought and memory in the Norse tradition and with the amethyst of peace blown into their beaks, complete the Aviary. This body of work will be on view at the gallery's downtown location from January 17th through March 23rd, 2025.
Rosen was selected by the American Academy of Arts and Letters for inclusion in their 2010 Annual Invitational in New York, a prestigious exhibition juried by some of the greatest artists of our time. A masterful and sought after teacher, Rosen has taught at numerous elite institutions, including the School of Visual Arts and Bard College in New York, Lacoste School of the Arts in France, Stanford University, and the University of California at Berkeley. Rosen's work has been reviewed in the New York Times, ArtForum, Art in America, and Art News. Her work has been exhibited across the United States. It is in numerous public and private collections including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Aspen Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Chevron Corporation, the collection of Grace Borgenicht, JP Morgan Chase Bank, the Luso American Foundation, the Mallin Collection, the Mitsubishi Corporation, and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. An upcoming solo retrospective will open next year at the Bakersfield Art Museum, as will an invitational group exhibition of sculptors to be held next summer at The Church, in Sag Harbor, NY. Jane Rosen's monograph, Dual Nature, was published by Pointed Leaf Press in 2021.
