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Dear Friend,
It's mid-January already, so I'm looking forward to what's coming up this year. (I know . . . it's tinged with dread for many of us.) I'm going to take my cue from the title of the two-person show that opened this week: Strength in Delicacy, which may be a good mantra as many of us approach the coming year. Let's keep our inner strength and core beliefs strong and focus on the positive where we can find it. Nature and art are my go-to sources for healing and keeping my spirits high.
I'm excited to share a two-person show with Sherri Denault at Christopher Art Gallery at Prairie State College in Chicago Heights, Illinois, that runs through the end of January. Rooted and Restless, a vibrant group show with four artists focused on the environment, is open for one more week in Madison, Wisconsin. I'll share photos and details below, and a little about a recent trip to Spain.
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Strength Through Delicacy
January 6 - 30, 2025
Sherri Denault & Katherine Steichen Rosing
Christopher Art Gallery | Prairie State College, Chicago Heights, Illinois
202 S. Halsted St., Chicago Heights, IL, 60411 | Monday - Thursday, 9 - 5
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Rooted and Restless
Basia Kroll, Meg Lagodzki
Katherine Steichen Rosing, Sheri Rush
through January 24, 2025
Class of 1925 Gallery
Memorial Union, University of Wisconsin-Madison
800 Langdon St., Madison, WI 53706 | open 7 days a week
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Inception, acrylic canvas-wrapped panel, 36 x 46 in., 2024
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2024 HIGHLIGHTS
I am grateful for so many opportunities to share my work this past year
and for those of you who shared the year with me!
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Atmospheric Intricacies
James May Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
solo exhibition
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5-10-100: Women Artists Forward
Watrous Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin
group exhibition of 5 years of Forward Prize recipients
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WISCONSIN VISUAL ARTISTS BIENNIAL 2024
Museum of Wisconsin Art
West Bend, Wisconsin
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In the Clearing Blooms a Memory
acrylic on linen, 48 x 72 inches
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Working on this commission for a truly lovely collector was a joy. Inspired by an earlier painting, working on this was like a visit with an old friend amidst a forest in all its glorious colors. What a treat to have a photograph in its new home!
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S P A I N: A LIFE LONG DREAM!
Since high school I have dreamed of visiting Spain. I speak a little Spanish, I taught myself flamenco guitar in high school, and I love the architecture and culture. Finally, late October, Mike and I spent two and a half weeks there. Here are a few highlights. What you won't see is the hundreds (thousands?) of paintings, installations, and other art we saw at the Prado, Reina Sophia (my favorite), Thyssen-Bornemeisza, MACBA, and more. I saw Guernica, cried in front of a luminous Fra Angelico annunciation, saw so many Goyas, and fell in love with Soledad Sevilla's work (contemporary Spanish abstract painter.) So much art and so little time.
I NEED and want to see the museums, but I LOVE to see the architecture and experience everyday life when I travel. I finally saw the Alhambra, its gardens, La Mezquita in Cordoba, and several of Gaudi's buildings, including the Sagrada Familia Cathedral. And I was converted from my olive phobia to an olive aficionado! Here are just a few of my thousands of photographs.
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Images from left to right, top to bottom:
Part of the Alhambra Gardens -- I was obsessed with the stonework on the paths!
Mike and me at the Alhambra during a thunderstorm - same day as the deluge that hit Valencia, but we didn't know at the time.
Pomegranites bursting open above our heads in the Alhambra Gardens, detail of a path
A view of the Nasrid Palace at the Alhambra
La Mezquita in Cordoba (a mosque surrounded by a cathedral, and built with roman columns)
room at Casa Vicens, a house redesigned by Gaudi. The ceiling reminded me of the ornate ceilings at the Alhambra
interior of Gaudi's Sagrada Familia--impossible to convey the magnificence and spirituality of this modern cathedral. The columns are abstract tree trunks culminating in abstract foliage crowns supporting the roof.
Finally, if you have ever seen the Milwaukee Art Museum, it's impossible to ignore Gaudi's arching hallway design at Casa Batlo--a small scale that must have inspired Santiago de Calatrava's magnificent hall in Milwaukee. Sorry, no photos of olive, I was too busy eating them in ecstasy!
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I would love to hear from you.
You are always welcome to visit my studio in person or on Zoom.
In the meantime, I hope you will check out my website.
For the nitty-gritty details in my studio, follow me on Instagram at @KatherineRosing
608-609-5583
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