October 1 – November 1, 2022

Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to announce an exhibition of new ceramic sculptures by Annabeth Rosen, October 1st through November 1st.

The unique ceramic constructions of Annabeth Rosen simultaneously celebrate qualities and techniques of craft, sculpture, collage and painting.  The artist pays homage to these various disciplines while not declaring allegiance to any.

“There is a hierarchy in ceramics, embodied in its history… Part of my interest has been to tinker with this history and to question the process in order to represent more about the material itself with my ideas embedded into it and to exploit its strengths as an expressive medium.”

Her works demonstrate a special process whereby the fired clay pieces are glazed and then attached together, as an assemblage, or sometimes fired again with a film-like white slip.  Rosen likes the visual sensation of paint, of the patina of a found object and the rawness of earthenware.  She marries these experiences in an object.

“The pieces are descended from ideas of functional pottery or ideas rooted in decorative architectural elements or abstract sculpture.  Either way, I’ve never felt a need to categorize and name the function of the work...”

Annabeth Rosen teaches at UC Davis where she is the Robert Arneson Endowed Chair.  She received her BFA from Alfred University in New York and completed her MFA at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.  She has exhibited her works internationally and is represented by important museum collections including LA County Museum of art and the Oakland Museum.

A reception for the artist will be held Thursday, October 2nd from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.