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About Stephanie Rose (painter)
- Stephanie Rose (born April 23, 1943 in New York City), is an American painter known for dramatic non-narrative abstract paintings composed of diverse passages including representational imagery and for portraiture in which the highly recognizable subjects appear in settings related to her work in abstraction; both, she has said, involve a "combination of historical and existential perspectives".
- Rose’s reputation was established as an abstract painter; her work in portraiture began late in her career in 1996.
- Exhibitions of her work typically include both modes of painting of which she has remarked, "Overall, the pivotal aspect for communicating meaning in my work is the investment of a theatrical sense of psychological presence in the paintings.""The extraordinary art of Stephanie Rose occupies a critical place in Modern/Postmodern art history.
- Utterly original, her style effects a perfect synthesis between these two opposing philosophies of art…..
- Content is intimately bound to form.
- These paintings, like the plays of Shakespeare, can never be exhausted – they are constantly renewed as different aspects reveal themselves to the experienced observer.
- Perhaps the most "Old Master" aspect of Stephanie Rose’s work is the quite delectable surface treatment.
- Her rich brushwork can be related to the paintings of Titian or of Rembrandt, or to the brushed metal of David Smith’s late sculptures in stainless steel.
- In her paintings Stephanie Rose achieves Cezanne’s proclaimed ambition; she has created a great art that is ‘like the art of the museums.’ In any museum it could hold its own against any art of the past." James K.
- Kettlewell, Curator Emeritus, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY; Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, Skidmore College.
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