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Installation view 1 –
“Folded Space”
Installation view 1 – “Folded Space”
Installation view 2 –
l to r, “Re-formed Curve” and “Folded Space”
Installation view 2 – l to r, “Re-formed Curve” and “Folded Space”
Installation view 3 – “Re-formed Curve”
Installation view 3 – “Re-formed Curve”
Installation view 4 – l to r,
“Folded Space” and “Slippage – Space #2”
Installation view 4 – l to r, “Folded Space” and “Slippage – Space #2”
Installation view 5 – l to r, “Sentinel #1” and “Sentinel #2”, “Stacked spaces – Imaginary places #4”
Installation view 5 – l to r, “Sentinel #1” and “Sentinel #2”, “Stacked spaces – Imaginary places #4”
Installation view 6 – l to r, “Stacked spaces – Imaginary places #4”, “Passing Over”, “Fictive Monument #3” and “Slippage – Space #1”
Installation view 6 – l to r, “Stacked spaces – Imaginary places #4”, “Passing Over”, “Fictive Monument #3” and “Slippage – Space #1”
Installation view 7 – l to r, “Stacked spaces – Imaginary places #4”, “Passing Over”, “Fictive Monument #3” and “Slippage – Space #1”
Installation view 7 – l to r, “Stacked spaces – Imaginary places #4”, “Passing Over”, “Fictive Monument #3” and “Slippage – Space #1”
Installation view 8 – l to r,  “Slippage – Space #1” and “Re-formed Curve”
Installation view 8 – l to r, “Slippage – Space #1” and “Re-formed Curve”
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Transitions: Color + Space, Smaller Works by Warren Rosser

Rosser’s work analyzes a vocabulary of abstraction, defined by transition. Architectural forms move through space, sometimes omitted altogether. The capacity of color to be “quiet” or “aggressive” within and between the work, invite the viewer to navigate the space in a new way.
Joseph Nease Gallery
Jul 27th – Sep 22nd 2018
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, 'Re-formed curve,' 2017, Joseph Nease Gallery

Warren Rosser

Re-formed curve, 2017

Joseph Nease Gallery

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, 'Sentinel #1,' 2014, Joseph Nease Gallery

Warren Rosser

Sentinel #1, 2014

Joseph Nease Gallery

$1,600

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, 'Passing Over,' 2014, Joseph Nease Gallery

Warren Rosser

Passing Over, 2014

Joseph Nease Gallery

$850

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, 'Folded Space,' 2014, Joseph Nease Gallery

Warren Rosser

Folded Space, 2014

Joseph Nease Gallery

$850

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, 'Sentinel #2,' 2014, Joseph Nease Gallery

Warren Rosser

Sentinel #2, 2014

Joseph Nease Gallery

$1,600

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, 'Fictive Monument #3,' 2012, Joseph Nease Gallery

Warren Rosser

Fictive Monument #3, 2012

Joseph Nease Gallery

$1,450

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, 'Slippage –Space #2,' 2017, Joseph Nease Gallery

Warren Rosser

Slippage –Space #2, 2017

Joseph Nease Gallery

$1,450

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, 'Stacked spaces – Imaginary places # 4,' 2014, Joseph Nease Gallery

Warren Rosser

Stacked spaces – Imaginary places # 4, 2014

Joseph Nease Gallery

$1,450

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, 'Slippage – Space #1,' 2017, Joseph Nease Gallery

Warren Rosser

Slippage – Space #1, 2017

Joseph Nease Gallery

$1,450

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Press Release

MEDIA RELEASE
July 19, 2018

Joseph Nease Gallery: Show of Rosser work opening in Gallery B.

“Transitions: Color + Space”

Joseph Nease Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of a showing of smaller works on paper and one recent painting by Warren Rosser in Gallery B. The opening will take place on Friday, July 27, from 5 to 8 PM, in conjunction with the Downtown Duluth Arts Walk.

Rosser’s work “examines an abstract language, exploring architectural forms and constructed space with particular attention to color, its transitions and subtleties.” (“Warren Rosser Biography,” Haw Conteporary, July 2018.) Related to this exploration are investigations of the "space" an art work occupies as compared to the space in which the works are seen.
Rosser’s long-time interest in the relationship between the work of art and the viewer, and that a "painting" does not always have to be vertical on the wall facing a viewer at eye level, comes through in these vivid smaller works, and the way we have chosen to display the works in Gallery B.

This show also illustrates Rosser’s interest in printmaking, as a way of examining color through the multi-layered hand-printed process he uses in creating monoprints. Each monoprint is a unique work of art, a printed painting, created with “multi-layered color transparencies creating deep implied space.” (“Warren Rosser Biography,” Haw Conteporary, July 2018.) Rosser’s monoprints also serve as color studies for his larger oil paintings.

Warren Rosser recently retired as Chair of the Painting Department at the Kansas City Art Institute after 28 years. Born in South Wales in the UK, Rosser moved to the US in 1972.

Selected solo exhibitions have included: Parade: Parallel Tracks at University of Leeds, England, and Jan Weiner Gallery in Kansas City; Repeat Offender at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Counterpoint at Epsten Gallery, Kansas City Jewish Museum; Hybrid View at Albrecht Kemper Museum, St Joseph, Missouri; and Alternate Tracking at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art at Omaha, Nebraska.

Previously he has exhibited his work at the Tate Gallery, London, the KunstMuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany; the Galleria Del Cavallino, Venice, Italy; and at the Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland.

For further information please contact the gallery’s manager, Amanda Hunter, by email at [email protected] or by phone at 218.461.8380.

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