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CONTACT: PHYLLIS ROSSER
14 East Fourth Street
New York, NY 10012
212.674.1873
info@phyllisrosser.com
NATURE ABSTRACTED: AN EXHIBITION BY PHYLLIS ROSSER
AT CERES
MARCH 29 - APRIL 23,
2011
Opening Reception: April 1st, 6 - 8
p.m.
New York, NY (March 8, 2011) - In her solo exhibition
opening March 29th, Phyllis Rosser continues exploring the power of natural
forms. Branches and tree limbs stripped of their bark by the Connecticut River
in Vermont are assembled into large abstract constructions that mirror natural
compositions in the landscape. One wall mounted piece moves along a ten foot
wall like a meandering stream. Although its form is rigid, it echos the
patterns of rocks being clustered together as water rushes over them. Other
vertically woven pieces create a small forest, recalling a safe haven in her
childhood in their wooded gathering on the gallery floor.
Rosser is attracted to the tumbled branches that wash
onto the river bank and begin to turn silvery gray as they lie in the sun. The
energy of the wood grains and the variety of colors - beige, charcoal, rust, as
well as gray, have a power for her as expressions of the diffuse, non-linear
excitement of nature. Remembering the beauty of the weathered barn doors of her
childhood, she revalues this material that is often considered
refuse, suggesting that something endures even as the tree breaks apart. Her
work expresses her experiences of nature, both fleeting moments and enduring
moods.
Her sculptures have been called “drawings in space,“ and
compared to the muscular brush strokes of abstract expressionist painters like
Joan Mitchell, Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollack. Art Historian/Critic
Anne Swartz says Rosser’s sculptures become “talismans of nature’s force, power
and beauty. . . The line of the forms seem to follow throughout the composition,
breaking and undulating, recalling their surging through water.”
Nature Abstracted will include 5 large and 15 smaller
wall hung pieces as well as 4 free standing works. This is Phyllis Rosser’s
17th solo show. She is represented in numerous private and public collections
including the Microsoft Art Collection, the Smith College Museum of Art and
Johnson & Johnson and has appeared in many group shows in New York, New
Jersey and New
England.
Rosser’s work will be on display at Ceres Gallery from
March 29th through April 23th, 2011. A reception for the artist will be held on
April 1st, from 6-8 p.m. The gallery is located at 547 West 27th Street, New
York, NY and is open Tuesdays through Saturdays from noon to 6 p.m., Thursdays
until 8 p.m. Contact Ceres at: 212.947.6100 or art@ceresgallery.org for
gallery information.
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Ceres Gallery
547 West 27th Street, New York, NY
212.947.6100
www.ceresgallery.org
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday,
12 to 6 p.m.,
Thursday, 12 p.m. to 8 p.m.
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