Press Release:
Andrea Rosenberg
Drawings
February 23 – March 30, 2019
Reception for the Artist Saturday, February 23, 5-7 pm
Moody Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new drawings by Andrea Rosenberg. Drawings will mark her second one-person exhibition at the gallery which will feature mostly large-scale works. Her work is comprised mainly of acrylic, watercolor, graphite, gesso, and crayon on paper, however the largest work in the exhibition will be a painting using the same materials on linen.
“What struck me first, upon seeing Andrea Rosenberg’s drawings a few years ago, was their expansive, graceful form, the result of an unstudied confidence, and their subject matter, the vitality of life itself. Without any preconceptions or preparatory studies, the drawings emerge spontaneously, spawned only by her past experience and the longevity of her practice. Energy, she told me, is the source and meaning of her drawn forms.” -Frances Colpitt, the Deedie Rose Chair of Art History at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, from the essay The Living Line, included in the exhibition catalogue Andrea Rosenberg: New Paintings and Drawings published by Barry Whistler Gallery in 2018.
Andrea Rosenberg was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1948 and currently lives and works in both Dallas, Texas and Fishtail, Montana. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1970 and a Master of Arts degree in 1971, both from Case Western Reserve University at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio. Her works are in the permanent collections of many institutions including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Texas, Brooklyn Museum, New York, and the Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio. Her work is also included in many private and corporate collections throughout the United States and Europe. Rosenberg’s work has been featured in many solo exhibitions in Texas including at the Amarillo Museum of Art, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Arlington Museum of Art, Tyler Museum of Art, and the Longview Art Museum.
Andrea Rosenberg: Drawings is on view at Moody Gallery Saturday, February 23 through Saturday, March 30, 2019. A Reception for the Artist will be held Saturday, February 23 from 5-7 pm. The exhibition catalogue Andrea Rosenberg: New Paintings and Drawings will be available.