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South Side
oil on wood
12" x 12"
The Yellow Rock
oil on wood
12" x 10"
Winter Woods
oil on wood
12" x 12"
Near Hoffman
oil on wood
12" x 12"
Road to Lake
oil on wood
12" x 12"
The Fourth Place
oil on wood
12" x 14"
Four Trees
oil on wood
14" x 16"
Lake Ontario
oil on wood
12" x 12"
Pines
oil on wood
12" x 10"
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$2,000 to $3,000 |
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artist's
statement
I have been painting landscapes for over a decade.
I used to think these paintings were about specific places,
or a certain experience of a place. In many ways this
is true. But I notice now there are forms repeating -
certain shapes, or a certain kind of space: an enclosure
or a fold or a dip (all those ditches), and much of this
is emphasized, manipulated, or just plain made up. Now
when I see places like this, say - a sand ditch along
the highway, a gravel pit, a cultivated field, or just
a peculiar bend in the road - I’m attracted to it,
and I make a mental note. It seems now I look for the
places that are already in my head. If I can’t find
it out there, I’ll attempt to create it. Holes?
- I like looking at them, like creating them. Roads? -
I am always driving. It seems the beginning is usually
that simple. There is a tension between form and what’s
going on in the real world. And the form (dips, ditches,
open fields, etc.) isn’t just a product of what
I see, but combines what I know about constructing paintings
with some deep and as yet unconscious memory system with
what I see in the landscape. There may be a story hidden
in the painting, which I myself am still only vaguely
aware of. Small, intimate, sometimes intricate, full of
illusion, or twisted space - the drama of broken ground:
pages in a story. They feel like safe places; then, other
times, like dangerous places: but necessary places - something
has happened, or will happen, and everything has, or will
react to it. Often there are only signs of absent people:
who made the tracks, cut the stumps, lit the smoldering
fires?
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Laura
Von Rosk
education
1989 M.F.A., University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA.
1986 B.F.A., State University of New York at Purchase,
Purchase, NY.
solo exhibitions
Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT.
2006 - 2007
St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, NY. 2004.
President’s Gallery, The Arts Center for
the Capital Region, Troy, NY. 2004.
Adirondack Community College, Queensbury, NY.
2002.
Green Lantern Studios, Mineral Point, WI. 2001.
Harmon Gallery, Hancock House, Ticonderoga, NY.
2000.
Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, Blue Mountain
Lake, NY. 1999.
Firehouse Gallery, Rogue Community College, Grants
Pass, OR. 1997.
The Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, New Castle, PA.
1992.
Third Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. 1990.
group exhibitions
Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland ME. 2007.
Gallery 100, Saratoga Springs, NY. 2004 –
2007.
Union College, Schenectady, NY. 2006.
Kiesendahl & Calhoun Contemporary Art, Beacon,
NY. 2005.
2005 Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville,
KY. 2005.
Haddad Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA.
2005.
Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY. 1997 - 2005.
Albany International Airport Gallery, Albany,
NY. 2003.
Leighton Gallery, Blue Hill, ME. 2002 –
2007.
Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. 2002.
The Arts Center, Saratoga County Arts Council,
Saratoga Springs, NY. 1998, 2001.
Dietel Gallery, Emma Willard, Troy, NY. 1999.
Valencia Community College, Orlando, FL. 1998.
Furchgott & Sourdiffe Gallery, Shelburne,
VT. 1998, 1999, 2000.
Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR. 1998.
Chemeketa College Art Gallery, Salem, OR. 1997.
Buckley Center Gallery, University of Portland,
Portland, OR. 1996.
E.M.U. Cultural Forum, University of Oregon, Eugene,
OR. 1995.
Emison Art Center, DePaw University, Greencastle,
IN. 1994.
Arthur Ross Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. 1990.
State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA 1989.
awards
New York Foundation for the Arts Painting Fellowship,
2004.
Lake Placid Lodge, Adirondack Art Fund Grant,
2002.
New York Foundation for the Arts, Special Opportunity
Stipend Grant (SOS), 2000.
Arts Council of the Northern Adirondacks, Artist
and Community Exchange Grant, 1999.
Pollack-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY, Individual
Artist Grant, 1996.
Washington and Jefferson College, Washington,
PA, Purchase Award, 1990.
Artist
Residencies
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY. 2003, 2002, 2000,
and 1996.
Vermont Studio Center, Full Fellowship Grant,
Johnson, VT. 1998.
Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY. 1996.
Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, ME. 1996.
Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, Clermont,
KY. 1996.
Centrum, Port Townsend, WA. 1996.
New York Mills Regional Cultural Center, New York
Mills, MN. 1995.
Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY.
1995.
Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula, CA. 1991
and 1994.
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