Francisca Rosner

Francisca Rosner paints women and girls from the fashion world. Some of them she leaves behind on an alienated catwalk, others are placed in a setting that evokes associations with an abstract landscape, maps, and patterns of substances and plants. By choosing to paint the woman against a meaningful or enigmatic background, Rosner gives them a new identity, freeing them from their status as objects. The boundaries between foreground and background blur: the women who apparently want to step into the foreground partly dissolve into their camouflage-like environment. People turn into plants... turn into dust... turn into maps and maps turn into landscapes. With this poetic approach and the interplay between the visible and partly concealed or obscured, the paintings arouse questions about the space the figures eventually occupy.

Education:
1994-1998 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. 1996 Cooper Union, school of arts in New York City. 1990-1994 MFA Academie voor Fotografie Amsterdam. Selected exhibitions:
2013 Gallery Ann’s Art, Groningen, solo exhibition.
Gallery Ann’s Art, Groningen, group exhibition.
2012 Affordable artfair, Amsterdam, group exhibition with Loods 5. 2011 Arti Gallery,Amsterdam,solo exhibition. Kultur, artspace, Amsterdam. 2010
Open Art Fair Utrecht. Art Amsterdam, Art Fair with gallery art kitchen. Art auction Americain Amsterdam. Project: Green. Loods5, Zaandam. Gallery Ann’s Art, Groningen, solo exhibition. 2009 Illumelas High Arts: Unity of Opposites, solo exhibition Galery Chiellerie, Amsterdam. Art fair Art Amsterdam with Gallery Art Kitchen. Project Het Digitale Bos, icw Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Project Djambistraat / Postzegelpleintje, Amsterdam. ‘AIR’ artist in residence Zeeburg, Amsterdam. Gallery Ann’s Art, Groningen, solo exhibition. 2007 Stedelijk museum, Andy Warhol gallery. 2006 ‘Me, Myself and I’, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam/Hamburg. Project Crossing Border Festival, Den Haag. Gallery Huize Erica, Bennekom.
2006 De Kijkdoos, Bennekom. Kunstkerk, Amsterdam. 'Zomer' Gallery Ann's Art, Groningen. 2005 Me, mysel...

Currently working on new paintings and selecting study material for multiples. Now available through my website, see for the selection:
http://www.franciscarosner.com/multiples-2/