McKenzie Fine Art: Jessica Deane Rosner 2022 Exhibition

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	Jessica Deane Rosner: Drawings January 7 - February 20, 2022
	Jessica Deane Rosner’s detailed and intricate drawings are small-scale and intimate; in this show they range from roughly 7 inches square to 11 ½ x 8 inches. She works predominately in ink but also with gouache and pencil. The works in this exhibition are from her ongoing “Ruled Unruled,” series. In these works, Rosner begins with a single element, a “perfect” geometric shape or series of lines, executed with simple drawing tools such as a ruler, compass or templates. Subsequent lines, expanding on the initial element, are then added freehand. As they accumulate, the hand-drawn lines become increasing untidy, wavering and tilting. Richly patterned and dense, these labor-intensive works have a devotional focus and are completed over weeks and months, slowly and carefully. This simple process has provided infinite possibilities, ranging from densely patterned geometries to more intuitive arrangements of shapes. Rosner notes that she is “driven by the uncertainty of what the finished piece will become.” She cites Sol LeWitt, Bridget Riley, Annie Albers, and Jacob El Hanani as particular influences. For over twenty years, Cranston, Rhode Island-based Rosner has been exhibiting her work in galleries and museums, including the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA, the Rosenbach Museum in Philadelphia, PA, and in Providence at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art and the David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Smith College rare books collection and the R.I.S.D Museum of Art.