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Thomas A. Rose
(American sculptor and installation artist, born 1942)
American, b. 1942
Thomas Rose, a preeminent Minnesota sculptor and installation artists, was born in Washington D.C., in 1942. He received a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain in 1965 and a master’s in sculpture from the University of California, berkeley, in 1967. Following a year’s postgraduate study in Sweden and three years as an instructor at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, he joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota, where he has taught sculpture for more than thirty years. Rose’s strong sense of place has informed his work from the beginning. He explores the psychological associations that physical spaces can have, creating environments that often recall earlier memories, say of childhood or a family home. His early work resembled dollhouse-sized stage sets. Other pieces incorporated household objects (ladders, coat hangers) into wood and wire mesh constructions. Later work has included chairs, tables, and desks using the forms and materials of an architect. The associations that Rose’s domestic imagery evoke in the viewer as are important as his own, which he traces to memories of his childhood home in Milwaukee, designed by his grandfather.
Rose has received numerous grants including several National Endowment for the Arts fellowships; a Rockefeller Foundation residency in Bellagio, Italy, in 1992; a mcKnight Research Fellowship for 1993-96; and grants from the Bush and Jerome foundations. He also won a McKnight Foundation photography fellowship for 2001; in a series of 2005 assemblages, he made significant use of photographs. Sites for his architectural sculpture commissions include a zoo, a library, and a sports arena. He has shown ath the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, in addition to solo exhibitions in Miami, New York, Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis, where he lives.
Vermillion Editions Limited: A History and Catalogue 1977-1992
University of Minnesota Press
(American sculptor and installation artist, born 1942)
American, b. 1942
Thomas Rose, a preeminent Minnesota sculptor and installation artists, was born in Washington D.C., in 1942. He received a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain in 1965 and a master’s in sculpture from the University of California, berkeley, in 1967. Following a year’s postgraduate study in Sweden and three years as an instructor at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, he joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota, where he has taught sculpture for more than thirty years. Rose’s strong sense of place has informed his work from the beginning. He explores the psychological associations that physical spaces can have, creating environments that often recall earlier memories, say of childhood or a family home. His early work resembled dollhouse-sized stage sets. Other pieces incorporated household objects (ladders, coat hangers) into wood and wire mesh constructions. Later work has included chairs, tables, and desks using the forms and materials of an architect. The associations that Rose’s domestic imagery evoke in the viewer as are important as his own, which he traces to memories of his childhood home in Milwaukee, designed by his grandfather.
Rose has received numerous grants including several National Endowment for the Arts fellowships; a Rockefeller Foundation residency in Bellagio, Italy, in 1992; a mcKnight Research Fellowship for 1993-96; and grants from the Bush and Jerome foundations. He also won a McKnight Foundation photography fellowship for 2001; in a series of 2005 assemblages, he made significant use of photographs. Sites for his architectural sculpture commissions include a zoo, a library, and a sports arena. He has shown ath the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, in addition to solo exhibitions in Miami, New York, Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis, where he lives.
Vermillion Editions Limited: A History and Catalogue 1977-1992
University of Minnesota Press
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