Selected Biographical Information
STEPHANIE ROSE has a 38 year exhibition history with solo shows in New York at The Dactyl Foundation, E.M. Donahue Gallery, Getler/Pall Gallery, Betty Cunningham Gallery, Susan Caldwell Inc., The Soho Playhouse and fiction/nonfiction; and elsewhere at Apel Galeri, Istanbul, Moss/Chumley Gallery, Dallas, van Straaten Gallery and One Illinois Exhibition Space, Chicago, among others. Regionally, she has had solo exhibitions in Hudson at Nicole Fiacco Gallery, The Hudson Opera House, Sarah Y. Rentchler Gallery, Carrie Haddad Gallery and Studio 249 Ltd.
Ms. Rose's work is represented internationally in numerous public collections. Her paintings are included in the Permanent Collections of The Neuberger Museum of Art, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, The Denver Art Museum, The Tang Museum, Skidmore College, The Castellani Art Museum, The Reading Public Museum and The Albany Institute of History & Art among others.
In ARTFORUM, John Ash wrote of an exhibition at E. M. Donohue in New York: "Stephanie Rose's "Still Pictures", 1993, are, first of all, a reminder that in terms of technique she is simply one of the best painters around. Luckily Rose's technical facility is at the service of a flamboyant imagination and a disciplined intelligence."
The art historian, James Kettlewell [Curator Emeritus, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY; Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, Skidmore College] is currently writing an in depth analysis of Rose's work, which says in part: "The extraordinary art of Stephanie Rose occupies a critical place in Modern/Postmodern art history. Utterly original, her style affects 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."
Recently at the Albany Institute, Carter Ratcliff delivered a lecture on Ms. Rose's titled STEPHANIE ROSE: UPSTAGE "because, in the theater of Rose's art, everyone is always trying to upstage everyone else--or, rather, every image tries, tirelessly, to upstage every other. This is the twist, the amazing thing: they all succeed." In addressing my painterly engagement with the historical past, Carter Ratcliff concluded: "For this is what true artists do: they immerse themselves in history, each reinventing a personal and therefore entirely relevant version of the past, and they live this past as if it were present... In these paintings of Rose's...past and present are unified, but not on equal terms. The present wins out, and that is why these paintings are so vividly alive, now and for us, in the moment of coming face to face with them."
Exhibition catalogue texts, reviews and articles on her work have been published with frequency in journals such as Art in America, ARTFORUM, ARTnews, ARTS and Tema Celeste by noted writers such as Carter Ratcliff, Brooks Adams, John Ash, Eleanor Heartney, Eileen Myles, Marjorie Welish, William Zimmer, Dan Cameron and Ellen Schwartz Harris. Ms. Rose's work has been included in the Art in America International Slide Survey of Contemporary Art. Writing on her work has appeared in newspapers in Dallas, Buffalo, Chicago, Istanbul, New York City and Hudson, NY.
Stephanie Rose received her B.S., B.A., and B.F.A. from Skidmore. She has held graduate and undergraduate teaching positions at Parsons School of Design, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, SUNY Buffalo, Bank Street College of Education, Pratt Institute and The Studio Program, Empire State College at SUNY in New York. She has been a Visiting Artist/Lecturer/Guest Critic at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, The Brooklyn Museum, Syracuse University, University of Dallas, SUNY at Purchase, Skidmore College, Tyler Graduate School of Fine Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Bennington College, Bard College, Yale University School of Art, U.S.Consulate General, Istanbul, Turkey, Altos de Chavon, La Escuela de Diseño, Dominican Republic, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, Brown University, The Albany Institute of History & Art and Pratt Institute. She has received the U.S.Consulate General, Istanbul, Turkey Invitational Travel Grant; New School for Social Research Faculty Development Fund Grant, and has twice received the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant.