Monotypes by Claire Rosenfeld

Revelation Gallery
224 Waverly Place
April 5-28, 2022
Hours: Monday-Thursday, 11AM-3PM (and by appointment, contact the artist)
(Closed April 14 and 18)

The Changing Earth focuses on phenomena dramatically shifting our physical reality: forest fires, melting glaciers, and erupting volcanos. These changes to the planet are real, symbolic, and visually profound.

As a longtime painter of dramatic natural images, Claire Rosenfeld’s work draws attention to the rhythmic movement of nature, evoking specific moments of time and place.
The exhibit’s monotypes (unique painted prints) utilize both ink and encaustic (wax and pigment). Many are painted into or collaged, with the subject being suggested rather than stated.
Claire Rosenfeld is a New York City-based visual artist working in painting and experimental printmaking. Her figurative expressionist work utilizes imagery that moves between figuration and abstraction. Additional work can be viewed on her website: www.clairerosenfeld.net

“Claire Rosenfeld’s paintings and drawings have the brilliance of Fauve colors and glare with the stark emotion of German Expressionism, but most of all, they distinguish themselves with a complexity and evolution of mood that are strictly individual… Her way to apply paint—bright over dark over bright—in some instances—shows how she reaches into the darkness to pull out the light. And just as the colors come at the viewer in flashes, the figures gesture with poignancy. The climate of anxiety and the anticipation resolve themselves in the bright/dark stillness where time is congealed: the dynamics are becoming more important than knowing what will take place. Medievalists felt this way—anticipating the place being not mine, but becoming its own.”
Laura Sue Schwartz, Arts Magazine

Claire Rosenfeld, a New York City-based painter, holds an MFA from Queens College, a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, and studied at the New York Studio School. Her paintings, drawings and prints have been exhibited in museums and galleries, nationally and abroad in numerous solo and group shows. Rosenfeld has been awarded artist residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Millay Colony for the Arts, Ossabaw Island Project, and others, in the United States, and Karolyi Foundation, France; Fundacion Valparaiso, Spain; and Fundacion Centro Cultural, Dominican Republic. She has taught at the Cooper Union, School of Visual Arts, New York University, and Silvermine School of Art, amongst others.