Diane Rosen is a New York-based artist and writer. She studied at École des Beaux-Arts in Paris on a French Government Painting Fellowship, the Art Students League in New York City, and Columbia University where she received a Master's degree. She has taught art privately as well as high school and college levels, including at Parsons School of Design/The New School in Manhattan. Her award-winning work is exhibited widely, and has been featured in publications such as The Pastel Journal; Pure Color: The Best of Pastel; and American Artist magazine. Rosen's paintings are in private collections in the U.S. and abroad.
StatementEngaging the tension between control and accident, familiar and strange, text and subtext, my work is informed by energies of dynamic interaction. Not least of these is the intentional, ongoing interplay of realism and abstraction, a duality I see as complementary rather than contradictory. My subjects are grounded in realism but contexts are ambiguous, while mixed mediums can weave unpredictability into deliberate process. Through this aesthetic of contingency, I am interested in challenging fixed narratives and valorizing uncertainty in the transformative dance between order and chaos that moves all life forward.
CvDIANE ROSEN
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 Pastel Society of America, juried show at National Arts Club NYC
2024 Fall for Art, juried show at Blue Hill Art Center
2024 The Art of Language, online juried show
2023 Between the Lines, Two-person show Pomona Cultural Center, Pomona NY
2023 Objects of Agency, online exhibition Hera Gallery & Educational Foundation, CT
2023 Childhood Unmuted, online exhibition Cultural Alliance, CT2023 1st International Pastel Plus, Central Mass Pastel Society, MA
2000-23 Pastel Society of America (PSA) annual, National Arts Club, NY, NY
2022 Accidental Selves, Lagstein Gallery, Nyack NY
2022 Global Garden, online exhibition Cultural Alliance, CT
2021 Form & Shape: The Figure in Contemporary Art, juried online exhibition 2021 Invited to create work for Edward Hopper House Museum 50th Anniv. Benefit Auction, NY
2021 Barcelona 2021 Foto Biennale, FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona Spain
2020,,03 Allied Artists of America Annual, National Arts Club, NY, NY
2002-20 Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club (CLWAC) annual, National Arts Club, NYC
2020 Past & Present, Blue Hill Art Center's 36th Annual Exhibit, Pearl River, NY 2019 Small Works, Greenwich Library Gallery, Greenwich CT
2019 Worlds Within Shadows, Garner Arts Center, Garnerville, NY
2017-18 SHELTER: Violence Transformed, Harlem School of the Arts, NY, NY 2017 Incredible Creature, 95 1/2 Main Gallery, Nyack NY
2016 Ceres Gallery, NY, NY
2016 Solco Gallery at ArtExpo , NY, NY
2015 Wheels of Chance, solo exhibit Green Light Gallery, Cornwall on Hudson NY
2015 Fragments, solo exhibit Hopper House Museum & Art Center, Nyack, NY
2014 New work, solo exhibit Rockland Center for the Arts, Nyack, NY 2014 Hudson Valley Art Association, 82nd annual, Salmagundi Club, NY, NY
2002,04,05,14 Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
2013 Small Matters of Great Importance, Hopper House, Nyack NY
2012 Black and White- Drawings, Salmagundi Club, NY, NY
2012 Enduring Brilliance: Pastel Society of America at 40, Noyes Museum of Art, NJ 2007-10 Broome Street Gallery, NY, NY
2007 Figure in Pastel, Butler Institute of American Art invitational, Youngstown, OH
2004 Solo exhibit Walter Wickiser Gallery, NY, NY 2003 Figurative Phases Invitational, Walter Wickiser Gallery, NY, NY
2002,03 SUBTEXT: REALISMplus, Curator/exhibitor, National Arts Club, NY, NY
2001 Art du Pastel en Normandie, Salons d'International, Yvetot/ Vernon, FRANCE
1997-03 S.E. Feinman Fine Arts Ltd, NY, NY
1995-02 Mark Gruber Gallery, New Paltz, NY
1995 Hammond Museum Invitational, North Salem, NY
1995 Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993,94 ARTSQUAD Contemporary Fine Art, The Contemporary Nude, Easton, PA
1991-94 Gallery Stendhal, NY, NY
1991 Gallery David, NY , NY
1990-91 Z Gallery, NY, NY
1985 Galerie Falco, Paris, France
1983 Marie Pellicone Gallery, NY, NY
1981 16 Artists 16 Viewpoints, Organization of Independent Artists, NY, NY
1980 Drawing Defined, National Arts Club, NY, NY
1980 Solo exhibit Bard College Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
SELECTED AWARDS
2023 Juror Award, 1st International Pastel Plus, CMPS, MA
2022 Yang Family Award, 50th Annual Pastel Society of America Exhibition, Nat'l Arts Club, NY, NY
2021 Blick Award. Distinctive Accomplishment in Pastel, PSA Annual, Nat'l Arts Club, NYC
2021 First Place Award, Take Flight InsideSmall online exhibition
2020 Honorable Mention, 15th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers, Juror: Elizabeth Avedon
2018 Founders Award- First place, Pastel Society of America (PSA), NY, NY
2015 Blick Award: Distinctive Accomplishment in Pastel, PSA, NY, NY
2014 Art Spirit Foundation Gold Medal Award, PSA, NY, NY
2010 Sindlinger Award for Excellent Writing on Education, Columbia University, NY 2009, 10 CLWAC Award, Pastel Society of America, NY, NY
2008 First Place for Mixed Media, CLWAC, Broome Street Gallery, NY, NY
2007 Huntington A ward, First for Painting, Broome Street Gallery , NY , NY
2006 H.K. Holbein Award, Pastel Society of America, NY, NY
2005 Bernhard Prize for Pastel, Butler Institute of American Art, OH
2003 Elected 'Master Pastelist' of Pastel Society of America, NY, NY
2003 Bernhard Gold Medal Award for Pastel, Allied Artists of America, NY, NY
2002 Salmagundi Club Award, CLWAC, NY, NY
1995 A & A Giffuni Purchase Award, PSA, NY, NY
1993 Pen and Brush A ward, Pen & Brush Club, NY , NY
1992 President's Award, Pastel Society of the West Coast, CA
1981 French Government Painting Fellowship, one-year study in Paris, France
Selected PUBLICATIONS
Listed: Who's Who of American Women, Who’s Who in American Art
2018 Chaos & Classicism, Pastelagram, Journal of Pastel Society of America, Vol. 45 2015 Local Arts Index, Interview by B. Batson, Nyack News and Views
2012 Rosen Paints the Figure, D. Neilsen, Hook Magazine
2006 Pure Color: The Best of Pastel, North Light Books, Eds. J. Markle, M. Bloomfield2005 Between Figure and Ground, L. Crouch, The Pastel Journal
2003 Diane Rosen, catalog essay by Edward Lucie-Smith
2000 Remembering Adam in Noho, K. Crandell, The Villager
1998 Best of Pastel 2, North Light Books, ed. Kristina Feliciano
1994 New Voices, A.C Lipton, Artspeak
1992 Renaissance in Contemporary Art, E. Exler, Manhattan Arts
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Pastel Society of America; International Association of Pastel Societies; American Artists Professional League; Allied Artists of America; Salmagundi Club; Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club
EDUCATION: Art Students League NYC, National Academy of Design NYC; E?cole des Beaux Arts, Paris, France; Columbia University, NYC (M.A.); Goucher College, Towson, MD (B.A.)
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