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Allan Rosenbaum
Allan Rosenbaum
My practice is a visual inquiry in which I use labor and material to explore the intersection of craft, painting and sculpture. I am focused on the way the hand can slow the eye to create an experience.
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My current body of work began with a desire to repurpose an inherited collection of neckties and fabric scraps from family sewing projects—materials that speak about who we are and what we do. Accumulated over decades, the scraps are a memorial—to time spent on selection, the labor of execution, and the memory of use. Seeking to expand beyond personal associations, I built a collection of materials from diverse geographies and histories: feed sacks, quiltmaker ’s scrap, deadstock, vintage kimonos and dutch wax fabric. I have developed forms and processes in response to the patterns and shapes within these materials.
Through strategies of layering and accretion I seek out the unfamiliar and the mutability of beauty. As my work has evolved I continue to celebrate qualities associated with craft— material, texture, repetition and pattern—that have long been central to my artistic production.
Bio
Allan Rosenbaum is a full time studio artist and former Professor of Ceramics in the Department of Craft and Material Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. His grants, fellowships and awards include two Individual Artist Fellowships from the Virginia Commission for the Arts; two research leaves from the School of the Arts at VCU; two VCU faculty research grants; a Teaching Excellence Grant from VCU, a Distinguished Service Award from the Visual Art Center of Richmond and three project grants from the Wisconsin Arts Board. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented in public collections including the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, Arkansas Art Center Decorative Arts Museum; Madison Art Center; Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, the Mobile Museum of Art in Alabama, the City of Richmond Public Art Commission, and the Kamm Teapot Foundation. Additional information about his work can be found on Instagram.
@allanrosenbaumstudio
Stolen Moments; 19”h x 24”w x 9”d; resin, repurposed textiles, fabric, paint; 2021, $4000
Round About; 22.5h x 25"w x 7.5"d; epoxy clay, repurposed textiles, fabric, paint; 2021, $3000
Price List- Allan Rosenbaum
2. Floating Points; 42"h x 13"w x 7”d; resin, repurposed textiles, fabric, paint, gold leaf; 2021,$4200
