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4-1354 Kuhio Hwy; Suite 3
Kapa'a, Kaua'i, HI 96746
E-mail: kebanu@aloha.net
Phone: (808) 823-6820
Fax: (808) 823-6710
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Ching Young Shopping Village,
5-5190 Kuhio Hwy
Hanalei, HI 96714
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Artist Statement for N. Rosler
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Rosler - Biographical Data
Rosler began his career as a young sculptor in Carmel, California where he made his mark in the art world of the 70’s creating limited edition sculptures of wildlife in bronze and silver combined with mineral specimens. From 1973, he was represented by Royal Worcester Porcelain Company in New York and fine stores in America and Europe featured his work such as Gump’s in San Francisco and Thomas Goode & Sons in London. Among notables who collected his sculpture were industrialists David Packard and Harold Zellerbach, actor Jimmy Stewart and the Princess of Iran.
In 1974, he was given a one-man show at Liberty House in Honolulu and in 1976, at Petra Gallery in Corona del Mar, California. In 1978, his sculpture was honored at Del Monte Lodge in Pebble Beach at a benefit for the Monterey Bay Sanctuary.
In 1980, Rosler added architectural and interior design to his talents. He designed his own startling contemporary home in Carefree, Arizona with Fred Osmon, AIA which was featured in the Arizona Republic and Phoenix Home and Garden. For his ocean view home in Carmel, he created a water stream which trickled through the living and dining areas to an outside pond as well as an interior aviary for doves. His handcrafted sculptural doors were exclusively featured at David Gallery in Carmel.
In 1982, Rosler restored a 100 year old Victorian on Cannery Row in Monterey, California and in it opened a restaurant and gallery called The Old Coast House. The restaurant became famous for cuisine which included fresh sea vegetables from the California coast and desert produce from Arizona both of which Rosler harvested himself. Ocean Ave. Pasta became a retail product in boutique food markets.
Continuing with his metal sculpture, in 1988 Rosler was given a one man show at Earth Studio in Scottsdale, Arizona featuring “Botanical Slices” a unique concept in which plant parts theoretically sliced for viewing under a microscope were rendered in bronze, copper and silver as large format wall art. In contrast to the scale of these sculptures, he miniaturized “The Rose” into a detailed woman’s necklace.
In 1987, he was commissioned to make a standing sculptural “Tree” whose branches upheld a mineral lover’s collection of 120 polished Gemstone eggs. His interest in creating bronze, silver and copper pedestals for fine minerals resulted in commissions by other collectors to mount their important specimens. Rosler engineered specialized techniques enabling him to balance large and very heavy specimens upon a sculptural base which could be manually rotated without attaching the specimens to the pedestal itself. Both his large scale wall sculpture and mounted minerals were shown at the Los Angeles Design Center.
In contrasting scale, clients came to Rosler with small mineral specimens which they wanted to wear in jewelry and the artist began casting in small scale gold and silver to accommodate them.
A collection of Rosler’s “Desert Flower” table sculptures designed to honor the Southwest desert was donated to the Phoenix Museum at their request in 1986. Rosler’s “Phoenix Mirror” was displayed in the Designer Showcase Home of 1988 in Phoenix and featured in Better Homes and Gardens.
In 1988, he created the first portable tabletop fountains for his company and founded what became a worldwide industry benefiting hundreds of other companies who subsequently followed his designs. Rosler’s contemporary ceramic and spun metal fountains often featured his own metal sculpture. These “Waterfalls” were displayed in showrooms in Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Seattle, Honolulu, Brussels, Tel Aviv and Chicago. Customers included Nature Company and The Discovery Stores, Sharper Image, Sak’s Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom’s, Liberty House and many other fine stores and boutiques. In 1998, he was commissioned to design the “Dolphin Fountain” for worldwide distribution by the American company MBI.
At the turn of the century, Rosler moved to Kaua’i to pursue his lifelong interest in designing and making jewelry. The Crown Jewels – a dramatic marriage of small mineral specimens, faceted gems or black pearls with handcrafted gold and silver settings - are the result. Many of these necklaces and earrings include rare beads from the artist’s own collection. His new company is known as Kaua’i Gems and specializes as the artist always has in the artistic celebration of nature’s treasures.
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