Stanley Rosen: Shaping Space, a panel discussion

A free virtual conversation with Mary Barringer, Kate Butler and Jamie Franklin joined by Andrew Bartle & Beth Kaminstein discussing Stanley Rosen: Shaping Space, the exhibition currently on view at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects through February 13th.

Saturday, January 16th at 2pm

Join us:
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Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects presents the second exhibition of the 94 year old ceramic sculptor Stanley Rosen. Entitled Shaping Space, the exhibition is presented in coordination with a new monograph on the artist published by Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects. The monograph and the exhibition present work beginning with Rosen’s very early efforts.

Rosen was born in Brooklyn in 1926. His family came from Poland and sold kosher chickens. At the age of 18, he served in the Navy at the end of World War II, where he was posted to Japan and China. There he had an experience of “a consuming beauty: mountains coming down into the bay, foliage, and Shinto markers.” On the GI Bill he attended the Rhode Island School of Design, where he studied with Gilbert Franklin and Lyle Perkins. Rosen began to work with clay there and afterwards attended Alfred University College of Ceramics for his MFA. After graduating in 1956, Lyle Perkins introduced him to Greenwich House Pottery in New York City, where he took a job as studio manager. At Greenwich House, Rosen met and traded work with Peter Voulkos. Greenwich House helped prepare him for teaching at Bennington College. Rosen arrived at Bennington in 1960. Rosen found himself at the center of a profound conversation on abstraction with artists present including Anthony Caro, David Smith, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski and Paul Feeley. Karen Gover wrote in Ceramics Monthly, “In some ways, Rosen’s ceramic sculptures can been seen as a modernist investigation of the relation between medium and form.”

Rosen was an influential teacher of ceramics at Bennington College for 31 years (1960-1991). All the while he was reticent about sharing his work, even with his students.  In 2017, at the age of 90, he had his first solo exhibition at The Bennington Museum titled Holding the Line, which then travelled to the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum later that year. In October 2017, SHFAP presented the first recent gallery exhibition of Rosen’s work titled, Beginnings. New York’s Museum of Art and Design acquired a group of works from the sculptor that were on view in an exhibition titled New Acquisitions in fall of 2017. His work was included in a group exhibition, Excavation, at Peter Blum Gallery in 2018. In December 2018, SHFAP presented Rosen’s work as a solo exhibition as part of the NADA Miami art fair.

Critical writing about Rosen’s work has appeared in Hyperallergic, Ceramics Monthly, and Sculpture Magazine. John Yau of Hyperallergic wrote, “Rosen’s ceramic sculptures are a revelation: they are like a country that many of us never knew was there until now.”