BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan––Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped (November 17, 2018 – March 10, 2019) is the artist’s first major museum survey that chronicles more than 20 years of Rosen’s practice. A 1981 graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art and a critically-acclaimed pioneer in the field of ceramics, Rosen brings a deep knowledge of the material’s history and processes to the realm of contemporary art.
“We are honored and delighted to present Annabeth Rosen’s work at Cranbrook. It is a homecoming of sorts for one of the most important contemporary sculptors working in the medium of clay. Rosen’s monumental and expressive works are a testament to her formidable skills and expansive vision.” –– Andrew Blauvelt, Director of Cranbrook Art Museum.
The exhibition comes to Cranbrook from the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston where it debuted in 2017. It was curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver.
Rosen has consistently expanded her practice to encompass installations that meld materiality and process. Her works, whether diminutive or monumental, are composed through laborious additive processes that push the medium beyond spectacle and into dialogues about endurance, labor, and feminist thought, as well as nature, destruction, and regeneration.
The exhibition features more than 100 pieces and includes large-scale works on paper that mirror the trajectory of the work executed in clay. Speaking to dualities of her art, Rosen has said:
“Much of the work is made with already fired parts broken, reassembled, re-glazed, and re-fired with the addition of wet clay elements if necessary. I work with a hammer and chisel, and I think of the fired pieces as being as fluid and malleable as wet clay.”
Artist Profile – Annabeth Rosen from The Contemporary Jewish Museum on Vimeo.
The Cranbrook Art Museum presentation of Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped is generously supported by the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation. Organized by the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver, the exhibition is made possible in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Text from gallery.
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Fabulous, Annabeth, just fabulous. The energy is astounding and you continue to amaze me.
Your vision is remarkable and what a treat to see such a huge amount of work—together.
I love this work and really interesting to hear the artist, Annabeth Rosen, talk about her approach and passion for her work. I hope the exhibition travels to Europe – I would love to have the chance to see it. Thank you for the post and videos.
Wonderful work. Wish I could see it. Wonderful person!
Annabeth Rosen’s work is phenomenal. I really would like to make it to her exhibition.
It is also refreshing to hear her talk about her enthusiasm for the process, discovery
and understanding of the materials.
Wonderful, powerful work and can’t wait to see it in person!
absolutely — excellent words — they are indeed simply 3 dimensional drawings….that’s what makes them what they are …you’re note just setting out to make a sculpture, your setting out to draw, to dig, to find, etc. when we set out to make ‘sculpture’, it’s all over…….dead.
Congratulations Annabeth!
The work looks really strong and beautifully installed.