“At a time when big-scale abstraction was ascendant, Mr. Rose painted small, airy, light-filled views of skies and rooftops in an Impressionistic manner. He painstakingly constructed his pictures from countless little blurry squares and dabs of paint, producing an enhanced tension between the concrete substance of the paint on the canvas and the spacious and luminous illusion of reality the work projected.”
–Ken Johnson, New York Times, Dec. 28, 2007