Posted / Turning by Maya Frodeman Gallery

POSTED / TURNING JANE ROSEN

02 AUG — 08 SEPT 2024

JANE ROSEN

POSTED / TURNING

MAYA FRODEMAN GALLERY

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Heartfelt thanks to Sebastian Ages. Ross Richmond, Shannon Belardi, Gustavo Gutierrez, Edith and Eduardo Marin, and Linda Renaud at Stone Creations for their incredible work on the sculpture on view in “Posted / Turning”. Without this team the show would not be possible.

To Mei Rose, Bookie, the ravens, Garfield, and the animal life that we share this place with, I give my gratitude and love.

I give deep thanks for the amazing effort of Maya and the Maya Frodeman Gallery and the great staff for making this show possible.

- Jane

RED SHOULDERED HAWK ON BEAUMANIÈRE , 2024

Grey linen Provençale stone on hand carved Beaumanière Provençale stone

70 x 8 x 16 inches

BRIGHTNESS, 2023

Handblown, rolled in marble, and carved pigmented glass 17 x 6 x 4 inches

DARKNESS, 2023

Handblown, rolled in marble, and carved pigmented glass 18 x 6 x 4 inches

SAHARA WALL BIRD, 2024

Handblown and carved pigmented glass

15 x 5 x 4 inches

Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see; these are, darkness and brightness, color and substance, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.

- Leonardo Da Vinci

Handblown and carved pigmented glass on Beaumanière stone 67 x 8 x 15 inches

SAHARA FALCON , 2024

Like two golden birds perched on the selfsame tree, intimate friends, the ego and the Self dwell in the same body. The former eats the sweet and sour fruits of the tree of life, while the latter looks on in detachment.

- The Mundaka Upanishad

SEAL ON ROCK, 2024

Black Portuguese marble on three elements of recycled Beaumanière carved stone 42 x 46 x 16

RITA (FOR HAYWORTH), 2023-2024

Handblown, rolled in marble, and carved pigmented glass on Beaumanière carved stone

68 x 10 x 14 inches

AVA (FOR GARDNER) , 2024

Handblown, rolled in marble, and carved pigmented glass 15 x 5 x 4 inches

POSTED RAVEN , 2023

glass and Beaumanière limestone

57 x 8 x 13 inches

Handblown

TURNING RAVEN , 2023

Handblown glass and Beaumanière limestone

57 x 8 x 13 inches

All I have produced before the age of seventy is not worth taking into account. At seventy-three I have learned a little about the real structure of nature, of animals, plants, trees, birds, fishes and insects. In consequence when I am eighty, I shall have made still more progress. At ninety I shall penetrate the mystery of things; at one hundred I shall certainly have reached a marvelous stage; and when I am a hundred and ten, everything I do, be it a dot or a line, will be alive. I beg those who live as long as I to see if I do not keep my word. Written at the age of seventy five by me, once Hokusai, today Gwakto Rojin, the old man mad about drawing.

- Hokusai

PRAYING

RAVEN , 2012-2013

Handblown glass, marble mix and ink

17 1/2 x 6 x 4 inches

MAMA RAVEN MOULTING , 2021

Charcoal, ink, casein and coffee on paper

50 x 42 inches

SUMMER RAVEN, 2023

Unique print with hand-painted pigment and coffee on paper 52 x 42 inches

TREE OF LIFE, 2020 - 2023

Charcoal, Sumi-e ink and coffee on paper

60 x 42 inches

WHITE RAVEN BLACK RAVEN, 2016

Sumi-e ink, ink and casein on paper

22 1/2 x 30 inches

BABY BEAR, 2024

Italian marble and French recycled stone

41 x 12 x 16 inches

MINI PET FINDERS, 2013 -2020

Handblown and carved pigmented glass

2 x 21 x 3 inches

UNTITLED FORM, 2014-2022

57 x 16 x 16 inches

Limestone and marble

THE IDEA BEHIND MY WORKS

What is the idea behind my works and what appeals to people about them? It is the pivot on which all art turns--equilibrium, a counterbalancing of masses which gives rise to movement. That is the crux of art, whether those who conceive art as something different from “crass reality” like it or not. Art is like love. For many people it is a dream, an event of the soul, a palace, a sweet odor, a jewel. But none of these are the real thing. What is essential in love is union. Everything else is detail--delightful, thrilling maybe, but detail. The same is true of art. If someone comes and praises my symbolism, my power of expression, still I know that the only important thing are the surfaces. Respect the surfaces, depict them correctly from everyside,andmovementwillcome;shiftthemasses,andcreateanewequilibrium. The human body can be compared to a striding temple; and like a temple, it has a center of gravity around which the volumes of the body are distributed and ordered. Once you have realized this, you know everything. It is simple, but you have to see it. Academic artists don’t want to see it. Instead of realizing that this is the key to my method, people call me a poet...They say my sculpture is the sculpture of an enthusiast. I do not deny that it contains much of a violent nature, but this overwroughtqualitydoesnotcomeoutofme,itispartofnatureitselfanditsmotion.

The works of God are by their nature exaggerated; I am only true to them. Nor is my temperament overexcited; it is tranquil. Nor am I a dreamer, but a mathematician, and if my work is good, then it is because it’s geometric...

When you follow nature, you follow everything...It is not a matter of creating “The New”;thewords“creating”and“inventing”aresuperfluouswords. Revelationcomes only to those who perceive with their eyes and minds. Everything is contained in what surrounds us. Everything is given in nature, which is imbued with eternal, uninterrupted movement. A woman’s body, a mountain, a horse are one and the same thing in terms of conception, and they all are built according to the same principles.

- Auguste Rodin

MARBLE HORSE , 2023

Portuguese white marble and limestone

57 x 15 x 10 inches

WHITE MARBLE HERON , 2023

Portuguese white marble and twelfth century Provençale limestone 39 x 25 x 9 inches

When you see a fish, you do not think of its scales do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water…. Well, I’ve tried to express just that. If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement and hold you by a pattern or a shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.

- Brancusi

GLASS WALL OWL, 2024

Handblown pigmented glass 14 x 5 x 4 inches

LARGE MERLIN , 2023

Handblown pigmented glass, Chinese sandstone and limestone

63 x 8 x 7 inches

WAVE THEORY, 2013-2021

Portuguese black marble 12 x 96 x 9 inches

MALLET

MORANDI , 2022

Handblown pigmented glass, kiln cast crystal, and limestone

42 x 63 x 24 inches

He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.

He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.

- Saint Francis of Assisi

GAME OF THRONES (G o T) , 2020

46 x 16 x 13 inches (each)

Beaumanière stone and limestone

GAME OF THRONES , 2023

Ink, chalk, coffee and sanquine on paper

28 x 39 inches

LEONARDO , 2004

Handpainted etching with lithography 44 x 30 inches

RAPHAEL

I shall not refrain from including among these precepts a new device for the imagination which, although it may seem rather trivial and almost ludicrous, is nevertheless extremely useful in arousing the mind to various inventions. And this is, if you look at any walls spotted with stains, or with stones of various patterns, if you have to invent some setting, you may be able to see therein a resemblance to various landscapes, graced with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, great valleys and hills in varied arrangement; or, again, you may see various battles and figures in action; or strange faces and costumes, and an endless variety of things which you can distill into well drawn forms. And what happens with regard to such walls and variegated stones is just as with the sound of bells, in whose jangle you may find any name or word you choose to imagine.

- Leonardo da Vinci

LA TOYA , 2004

Etching, lithography, hand coloring, varied edition of ten 28 x 39 inches

100

BRONZE CASH CUT OUT (SUMI-E) ON STONE BENCH, 2023

Unique Sumi-e ink patina, bronze and limestone

16 x 26 x 4 inches

102

MARSH TRIPTYCH, 2018

Coffee, Sumi-e ink, and ink wash on paper 22 x 30 inches each

GREY CALLIGRAPHIC GOSHAWK ON STONE, 2019

Handblown pigmented glass and limestone

58 x 8 x 20 inches

110

HAWK CROSS, 2024

Sumi-e ink, ink and casein on limesotne

15 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches

LANDSCAPE HILLS, 2024

Sumi-e ink, ink and casein on limestone 15 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches

BIRDMAN, 2011-2018

Limestone and pigment

55 x 8 x 15 inches

114

DIAMOND BACK, 2024

Handblown and carved pigmented glass on limestone

42 x 8 x 12 inches

118

BEAR, 1999-2024

Handblown pigmented glass 9 x 7 x 7 inches

HONEY

IMMATURE, 1999-2024

Handblown pigmented glass 9 x 7 x 7 inches