Barbara Adrienne Rosen

Barbara Adrienne Rosen
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BIOGRAPHY

What is abstract art? Like music, it allows us to transcend our own world and experience a total different reality. Through the use of color, line and form, abstract art is capable of transmitting expressive, historical, even philosophical information. But first, we need to cultivate the skills of imagination, non-concrete thinking, and intuition. And we need to trust our instinctive reactions, how we feel when we first confront a work of art that is foreign to our habitual or conventional way of seeing the world. There is so much that we miss.
My painting began in play, from the pure pleasure of applying color and paint to paper and canvas. When I first began to paint my goal was to see and really observe the simplicity and the clarity of things in life. That attempt was repeated again and again. In a certain painting a decision was made to carry the energy of some exquisite yellow flowers beyond the boundaries of the visual. Being open to intuition and possibility and finding the balance between color and form became my goal. That was my liberation surpassing my original vision.
I see the abstract everywhere; t...

February 8, 1946 Born in the Bronx, New York
September 1964 - June 1967 Attended UCLA, majoring in dance, then painting and sculpture.
September 1967 - June 1969 Graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute and pursued a career in pottery and tile making until her first child was born in 1984.
December 1984 Used watercolors for the first time while experimenting with handmade paper.

2018 - present

Manhattan Arts International - international artist website. The Healing Power of Art.
Curator - Renee Phillips.
Burnette Gallery - group show. Woodstock, NY
Woodstock Art Exchange - 2 woman show. Woodstock, NY
Catkskill Art and Office - Woodstock, NY

2010 - present


2006 - Woodstock Artist Association, Inquiring Mind Book Store, The Omega Institute for Holistic Studies

May5 - June 30, 2005
March 5 - April 30, 2005 Feb. 2005
August 2004 Represented by Topka - Woodstock, NY
Richart Chocolate and Design Gallery, 7 East 55 St., NYC

Coldwell Banker - Kingston, NY Bank of America, Woodstock, NY The artist curated a show of 5 abstract artists under the title of "An Abstract Vision" for the Inquiring Mind Bookstore in Saugerties, NY.

Coldwell Banker – Kingston, NY ...