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Posted / Turning presents the artist as she is meant to be, a true maestra at the height of her prowess. The exhibition presents new work from Jane Rosen, a celebrated sculptor and draughtswoman, bringing together colossal feats of stone carving with innovative handblown glasswork and her signature layered sumi-e ink drawings. Some of the work, such as Sahara Falcon and Red-Shouldered Hawk, sit on magnificent pedestals hewn from incredibly rare Beaumanière stone salvaged from a now-closed French quarry, while other works incorporate collected stones she has been bringing to life over the course of thirty years. Rita (for Hayworth) and Sophia (for Loren), Jane’s “glamour girls” and birds she’s called “the pieces of a lifetime,” are hand-blown glass birds that were rolled in marble and carved hot at 1600 degrees Fahrenheit. Each is perched on stone akin to the “eternal beam of light” Rosen refers to in her artist statement above.
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Posted Raven, 2023Handblown glass on Beaumanière limestone57 x 8 x 13 inches
Figure: 13 x 7 x 19 inches
Base: 3 x 6 x 8 inches
Base: 37 x 8 x 8 inches
Base: 5 x 8 x 9 inches -
Turning Raven, 2023Handblown glass on Beaumanière limestone57 x 8 x 13 inches
Figure: 10 x 6 x 14 inches
Base: 3 x 6 x 8 inches
Base: 37 x 8 x 8 inches
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Red Shouldered Hawk on Beaumanière, 2024Grey linen Provençale stone on hand carved Beaumanière Provençale stone70 x 8 x 16 inches
Figure: 19 x 8 x 10 inches
Base: 1 1/2 x 6 x 9 inches
Base: 49 x 8 x 14 inches
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Sahara Falcon, 2024Handblown and carved pigmented glass on Beaumanière stone67 x 8 x 15 inches
Figure 16 x 6 x 8 inches
Base 51 x 8 x 15 inchesSold -
Seal on Rock, 2024Black Portuguese marble on three elements of recycled Beaumanière42 x 46 x 16 inches
Figure: 10 x 44 x 14 inches
Each post: 29 x 14 x 8 inches
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Untitled Form, 2014-2022Limestone and marble57 x 16 x 16 inches
Figure: 20 x 8 x 7 inches
Block: 4 x 9 x 9 inches
Block: 2 x 10 x 10 inches
Block: 25 x 10 x 10 inches
Block: 3 x 12 x 12 inches
Block: 3 x 16 x 16 inches
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Sophia (for Loren), 2024Handblown pigmented glass on limestone62 x 8 x 12 inches
Figure: 13 x 7 x 8 inches
Base: 4 x 6 x 9 inches
Base: 23 x 8 x 12 inches
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Rita (for Hayworth), 2023-2024Handblown, rolled in marble, and carved pigmented glass on Beaumanière carved stone68 x 10 x 14 inches
Figure: 16 x 5 x 7 1/2 inches
Base: 31 x 8 x 8 inches
Base: 12 x 8 x 8 inches
Base: 4 x 10 x 12 inches
Base: 4 x 10 x 14 inchesSold -
Gentle Great Grey, 2024Roman travertine, linen Provençal recycled limestone73 x 10 x 14 inches
Figure: 24 x 10 x 14 inches
Base: 5 x 7 x 8 inches
Base: 3 x 8 x 8 inches
Base: 24 x 8 x 10 inches
Base: 24 x 8 x 12 inchesSold
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Baby Bear (for 399), 2024Italian marble and French recycled stone41 x 12 x 16 inches
Figure: 15 x 12 x 22 inches
Base: 11 x 12 x 16 inches
Base: 24 x 12 x 8 inches
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White Marble Horse, 2023Portuguese white marble and limestone57 x 15 x 10 inches
Figure: 19 x 14 x 7 inches
Base: 8 x 14 x 10 inches
Base: 24 x 14 x 10 inches
Base: 6 x 15 x 12 inches -
Katherine (for Hepburn), 2024Handblown pigmented glass rolled in marble18 x 6 x 5 inches
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Jane Rosen contains multitudes. Equal parts artist, sculptor, philosopher, historian and humorist, Rosen has spent a lifetime shaping the world around her, whether working on paper, in handblown glass, and with stone. Rosen is fascinated with cultures like the Innuits, Native Americans, and Egyptians. For these groups, art was a by-product of an investigation of being and mortality rather than an aesthetic pursuit. For Rosen, as for sculptor Auguste Rodin, “Revelation comes only to those who perceive with their eyes and their minds. Everything is contained in what surrounds us. Everything is given in nature, which is imbued with eternal, uninterrupted movement.” She lives and breathes her sculpture; her drawings bring the sublimity of nature to the surface.
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Game of Thrones (GoT), 2020 - 2024Beaumanière stone and limestoneEach 46 x 16 x 13 inchesSold
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White Marble Heron, 2023Portuguese white marble and twelfth century Provençale limestone39 x 25 x 9 inches
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Bronze Cash Cut Out (Sumi-e) on Stone Bench, ed. of 6, 2023Unique Sumi-e patina, bronze and limestone16 x 26 x 4 inches
Bench: 18 x 36 x 9 inches
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Jane Rosen, Raphael Leonardo, 2004
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Mama Raven Moulting, 2021Charcoal, ink, casein and coffee on paper50 x 42 inches
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Jane Rosen, Summer Raven, 2023
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She cites Renaissance masters like Michelangelo and da Vinci as influences. Like these artists, Rosen excels across several different mediums, including sculpture, painting, and drawing. Traces of all three can be found in each; upon close observation, a sculpture has been stained or a work on paper has had several layers of wax or marble mix sculpted into its surface. Speaking to artist and writer Richard Whittaker, Jane speaks of ‘seeing’ as “a shift in cognition…where something in me listens, but not with my ears. There’s another kind of listening. It’s kind of like from the knees up to the shoulders is like a receiver or a satellite dish allowing something to come in almost through my middle.” She continues, “These pieces become representations of a seeing both in and out. And the light, which I resisted enormously, became the teacher.”
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White Kite Sighting, A.P. 1, 2013Archival pigment print on German etching paper21 x 37 inches
Framed dimensions 24 1/2 x 40 1/2 inches -
Gesture Bear, 2024Recycled napoleon stone58 x 8 x 10 inches
Figure: 14 x 7 x 8 inches
Base: 36 x 8 x 10 inches -
Large Merlin, 2023Handblown pigmented glass, Chinese sandstone and limestone63 x 8 x 7 inches
Figure: 11 x 6 x 16 inches
Base: 7 x 7 x 8 inches
Base: 24 x 8 x 10 inches
Base: 24 x 8 x 12 inches
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Mallet Morandi, 2022Handblown pigmented glass, kiln cast crystal, and limestone42 x 63 x 24 inches
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Wave Theory, 2013-2021Portuguese black marble12 x 96 x 9 inches
Figure: 5 x 6 x 5 inches
Figure: 6 x 5 x 5 inches
Figure: 7 x 6 x 6 inches
Figure: 5 x 5 x 9 inches -
Diamond Back, 2024Handblown and carved pigmented glass on limestone42 x 8 x 12 inches
Figure: 12 x 5 x 7 inches
Base: 6 x 5 x 12 inches
Base: 24 x 8 x 12 inches
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Gypsy Mane, 2012Hand painted Korean watercolor on archival pigment print20 x 24 inches
Framed dimensions 22 3/4 x 26 3/4 inches -
Game of Thrones, 2023Ink, chalk, coffee and sanquine on paper28 x 39 inches
Framed dimensions 30 1/2 x 42 1/4 inches -
Heron Redwings / Swan Monk, 2010-2024Casein, ink and beeswax on paper30 x 22 1/4 inches
Framed dimensions 33 x 25 inches
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Rosen was born in New York City, where she grew up and began her career as an artist. Despite finding early success in galleries and a prestigious teaching position in the city, Rosen found herself captivated by the accessibility of nature on a visit to the West Coast. She eventually relocated permanently to San Gregorio, California, on the coast south of San Francisco, where she keeps her studio and resides on a horse ranch frequently visited by the birds and mammals you see in her work.
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Paige's Books IV B, 2017Sumi-e ink and casein on limestone tablet12 x 8 1/2 inches
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Raven Tablet, 2024Sumi-e ink and pigment on limestone9 x 6 1/2 inches
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Kyoto Horses, 2024Pigment on limestone9 1/2 x 11 x 2 inches
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POSTED/TURNING: JANE ROSEN
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