Katherine Steichen Rosing

medium: painting
portal wisconsin featured artist

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Requiem 2001-2002 Painting	Kurasawa's Forest 2000 Painting	Monsoon 2002 Painting
Firehole River (Geyser Series) 2001-2002 Painting	Measures of the Millennium 1999-2000 Painting	Measures of the Millennium: Mohammed's Vision (detail) 1999-2000 Painting
Measures of the Millennium: 18th c, Dawn's Early Light, Bach's Cantata (detail) 1999-2000 Painting	Cascade 2002 Painting	Flowage 2002 Painting
Black Rain 2002 Painting

Contact information
Artist resides in: Madison, WI
Email Address: katherine@studioKSR.com
Web site: www.studioKSR.com

Artist statement
I am fascinated by the painted surface, and the juxtaposition of color and texture. The content of my abstract, symbolic paintings plays a pivotal role in determining surface and composition. Transparent glazes, inscribed to reveal a shimmering underpainting, in a body of work informed by modalities of precipitation, allowed me to explore transparent color, patterns and inscribed marks. The play of reflective, transparent surface is sometimes juxtaposed with opaque textures, like water at the edge of an arid land. Frequently I build textured under-paintings, which are then layered and scumbled. The raised textures cast rhythmic shadow patterns, and allow the layered color more interaction, offering a glimpse into previous strata, like a physical history of the painting. These textured surfaces continue to be important in recent scroll-like paintings, including "Black Rain," "Cascade," and "Flowage."

Water is a constant in the ebb and flow of life, and is an important symbol in my work. The water cycle became a metaphor for tears shed with the rise and fall of civilizations, in a large piece commemorating the millennial "hoopla" experienced in recent years. Twenty-one small, square paintings comprise "Measures of the Millennium," each reflecting the character of a century. The center square of each painting has a distinct surface with a grid of one hundred marks symbolizing the rain/tears of a particular century. Inscriptions in the borders of each of painting in "Measures," chronicle human events of each century, denote corresponding dates from other calendar systems, and records population growth.

Biography
Rosing's exhibition record includes numerous solo and group exhibitions across the United States, Germany and China. Her work will be exhibited in Tokyo, in a two-person exhibition, in October 2002. Rosing has taught studio art courses for over ten years at universities, colleges and art centers in the Chicago area and in Madison. She holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from Northern Illinois University-DeKalb.

Rosing's work in the nonprofit arts sector includes two years as Exhibition Curator and Vice-President of A.R.C. Gallery/Educational Foundation in Chicago. In 1995, she represented A.R.C. Gallery on a panel of artists at the NGO Forum of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing (Huairou) China. Rosing was born in Appleton, Wisconsin.

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

Arts Club of Washington, Washington, D.C., 2002
ACME Art Company, Columbus, Ohio, 1999         
De Ricci Gallery, Edgewood College, Madison, Wis., 1999
A.R.C. Gallery, Chicago, 1996, 1994, 1992
Contemporary Art Center, Arlington Heights, Ill., 1995