ROSALIND BRENNER, Artist & Poet

Rosalind Brenner is the owner and president of Manor Art Glass Studio in East Hampton, New York. Her unique designs and master craftsmanship have won her continuous commissions, including new work and restorations in ecclesiastic settings, homes and department stores throughout the country. Her art glass and fixtures may be found in such notable landmark buildings as The Chrysler Building in New York City, as well as the New School, Nordstroms, Neiman Marcus and others. She runs a busy studio where there are many works in progress, new as well as restorations.

Rosalind has painted on glass and created gouache presentations for her stained glass since the inception of her studio in 1972. She worked under two mentors, Benoit Gilsoul and Robert Cariola, who shared their knowledge of glass art and painting with her and she had a three-year apprenticeship at The Greenland Studio in New York City, where she worked on the restoration of stained glass from the Cloisters and the Metropolitan Museum.

In 1992 Rosalind began painting in watercolor, oils and acrylics, and experimenting with collage.

Rosalind's art pushes painting into the realm of the contemporary by blending her own re-purposed artwork and materials and experimenting with techniques to explore concepts and ideas. The work is a fusion of the observed and the purely imaginative. She enjoys painting inner landscapes, which range from luminous and evocative abstraction to forms from nature, women, calligraphy, figures, creatures and music. Her stained glass background is evident in her use of color, line and shape.

Rosalind received her MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence

College and often begins a visual work with a verbal concept drawn into the support that becomes partially obscured as the image emerges.

Brenner's paintings and art glass may be found in many

fine homes, including the collections of: Alec Baldwin,

the Gund family and Marci Klein.  

POSSIBILITIES/ENERGY PAINTINGS

Images & Poetry by Rosalind Brenner

 

A solo exhibition of Ms. Brenner's interdisciplinary work entitled "Possibilities/Energy Paintings" is currently on view through June 6th 2012 in the Esther Raushenbush Library Gallery of Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY.  

On exhibit are a selection of figurative abstract paintings, collage and poems as well as the artist's debut book of paintings and poems, All That's Left: Poems and Paintings by Rosalind Brenner, published by Art House Press.

The show fuses Brenner's visual images with her poems, coalescing the two elements into a third art, in which the words complement the pictures or vice versa, depending on how the viewer-reader responds.

 

ABOUT THE BOOK

Pulitzer Prize winning author Stephen Dunn writes, "In this compelling and beautiful book, Rosalind Brenner demonstrates through her poems and paintings that the "all" of ALL That's Left is considerable, while acknowledging the difficulty and fragility of the world she inhabits." 

Brenner's poetry has been published in The Cortland Review, Poetrybay, Long Island Sounds, The Southampton Review, Walt's Corner in The Long Islander, Taproot Journal, Performance Poets Association, Literary Review, Ontologica and in Arroyo Literary Review, among others. 

Rosalind Brenner will read from All That's Left and her newest book, Omega's Garden, at the following venues:

Friday, May 25th, from 5-6pm: Canio's Books, Sag Harbor, NY

Saturday, June 23rd, from 1-2pm, East Hampton Library, East Hampton, NY

 

Saturday, August 11th

from 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

 

Poems for Pollock

Pollock-Krasner House 

East Hampton, NY

 

Produced by artist and poet, Rosalind Brenner, a group of noted poets, including: Rosalind Brenner, Lucas Hunt, Teri Kennedy, Grace Schulman, George Wallace, Maxwell Corydon Wheat Jr. and Michelle Whittaker will read poems inspired by the artist and his world. A reception and viewing of the Men of Fire exhibition will follow.

 

The occasion commemorates the 56th anniversary of Pollock's death on August 11, 1956

 

ARTIST STATEMENT   

Spontaneity propels my process. I often start with words and swathes of delicious color. The words are eventually partially obscured by figures, faces, line, landscape. I form an alliance with my materials, be they acrylics, oils, watercolor, collage elements, to express the mystery of connection between interior and exterior. My paintings play with space that alternates between surface and three dimensions, between imagination and observation.

With an unconscious wish for a dialogue between my work and the observer of the piece, I paint freely, imagery that seems to emerge as the work progresses. I surprise and beckon myself into the piece as I sprinkle my abstractions with the in and out of broken line and space to further the illusion of falling into a new world.

Creating these works is for me an artistic-spiritual betrothal. As for all people who want to give meaning to life by working creatively or intimately with the raw materials at hand, making art is a merging that joins worker, work, and observer in a new reality that transcends the everyday and escorts us into an inexplicable realm. It is that realm that I express in my art.

 
For more information on Rosalind Brenner, visit her website at Rosalind Brenner and her Facebook page at Rosalind Brenner on Facebook

 

Media Contact: Andrea Gurvitz, KG Media, [email protected], 631.324.0195.