About
Alyse Rosner holds a BFA from the University of Michigan and an MFA from The American University. Rosner is recognized for her large-scale abstract paintings acknowledging the contradictions within the natural and synthetic world and the loss and regeneration continuing around us. Each of her series are informed by an arc of life experience, personal and collective grief, and the process of painting. Her most recent work has a deep connection to nature and the cascading environmental and health crisis shaping the 2020’s.
Rosner exhibits nationally. She has had seven solo shows with Rick Wester Fine Art since 2012. Other solo exhibition venues include ARC Fine Art, Mark W. Potter Gallery, Artspace, The Gallery at Three Rivers, Westport Arts Center, and Washington Art Association. Her work has been included in group exhibitions such as Unfamiliar Again: Contemporary Women Abstractionists, Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University, New Orleans; Venus Fly, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, Connecticut; Bigger Bolder Better, a Chashama show in Brooklyn; as well as The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (Ridgefield, CT) Art in Embassies (Geneva, Switzerland), University of Connecticut, BravinLee Programs, Odetta Gallery (Harlem and Brooklyn) Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT) Artspace (New Haven, CT) and Barbara Krakow Gallery (now Krakow Witkin Boston, MA)
Rosner’s work is in the collections of Google Ventures, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Eastern Connecticut State University, NYU Langone Health, The Fine Art Collection at Montefiore Einstein, The Kirkpatrick Bank Collection, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Aramco Americas, The Connecticut Artist Collection, as well as selected Private Collections in the United States, Europe and the Middle East.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Bracing Against the Wind, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY
2021
Trusting the River, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY
2019
Day to Day: Recent Drawings 2017-2019, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY
Regeneration, ARC Fine Art, Fairfield, CT
Time Release, Mark W. Potter Gallery, Taft School, Watertown, CT
2018
Alyse Rosner: A Little Bit of Time, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY
2016
Alyse Rosner: Recent Paintings, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY
2013
Alyse Rosner: 7 Paintings, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY
Premonitions, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY
2012
Alyse Rosner: Large Scale Work, Curated by Harry Philbrick, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2011
Presence / Presents, The Gallery at Three Rivers, Norwich, CT
2006
Alyse Rosner: New Paintings, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
2001
Alyse Rosner: Recent Works, Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Invincible Summer, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY
When Mind Leaves Body: Elisabeth Condon, Susan Luss & Alyse Rosner, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2023
Art in Embassies Exhibition, United States Embassy, Geneva, Switzerland (UN Conference on Disarmament)
Dear March Come in, curated by Alexandra Rutsch Brock, The Birdhouse, Brooklyn, NY
2021
Magic, Metaphor Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Color Cure: Women in Abstraction, Alexey Von Schlippe Gallery, University of Connecticut, Avery Point, Groton, CT
Love Devotion Surrender Dedication, curated by Mary Shah, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY
If 6, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY
Flow to Form, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT
2020
With the Grain curated by Patricia Fabricant, Equity Gallery, New York, NY
Suburban Salon, BAM Art Advisory, Larchmont, NY
USPS Art Project Traveling Exhibition, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY; ELY Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT; InLiquid Art Philadelphia, PA
HomeMADE, BAM Art Advisory, Larchmont, NY
2019
Ornament: Ho-Hum All Ye Faithful, BravinLee Programs, New York, NY
Turner’s Patent Yellow, ODETTA Gallery, New York, NY
Circles and Squares, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY
Among Friends, organized by Alexandra Rutsch Brock, Beth Dary & Patricia Fabricant, The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center, New York, NY
2018
Among Friends, organized by Alexandra Rutsch Brock, Beth Dary & Patricia Fabricant, DUMBO Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2017
UNFAMILIAR AGAIN: Contemporary Women Abstractionists, Curated by Monica Ramirez-Montagut including Anne Vieux, Barbara Takenaga, Amy Ellingson, Morgan Blair, Brittany Nelson, Alyse Rosner and Rachel Beach, Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Excessive Frugality, ODETTA Gallery, Bushwick, NY
BIGGER, BOLDER, BETTER, curated by Jaynie Crimmins, Christina Massey and Etty Yaniv, Chashama at 470 Vanderbilt, Brooklyn, NY
Venus Fly, curated by Tracy McKenna, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich CT
Tremolo, curated by Carolanna Parlato, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY
Colormania Featured Flatfile artist, ODETTA Gallery, Bushwick, NY
Rhyme and Reason, The Gallery at Constitution Plaza, Hartford, CT
2016
Surface Work, Curated by David Borawski, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
The Art of Now, Curated by Betty Levin, Hearst Galleries, New York, NY
2015
Surfacing: Carolanna Parlato and Alyse Rosner, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT
Connecticut Bound: Navigating the Flatfile, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2014
TEMPEST, Curated by David Borawski, The Institute Library, New Haven, CT
2013
Looking Forward Looking Back, Curated by Don Kimes, Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, Chautauqua, NY
2012
It's Your Nature, Curated by Susan Classen-Sullivan, Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT
Summer Invitational, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY
Alyse Rosner & Geoffrey Detrani, Seton Gallery, University of New Haven, New Haven, CT
2011
Out of Line, Curated by Leslie Nolan, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2010
Everything but Paper Prayers, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Aldrich Undercover, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Conspectus I, Curated by Laura Marsh, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Chautauqua: A Continuum of Creativity, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY
2009
After Narrative, Curated By Laura Marsh, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Full Circle, Curated by Regine Basha, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
House Project, Curated by Terri Smith, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
12 x 12 x 100, Strohl Art Center, Chautauqua, NY
Soft Serve, Curated by John O’Donnell, The Gallery at Constitution Plaza, Hartford, CT
2008
Everything but Paper Prayers, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Aldrich Undercover, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Intricacies, Curated by Debbie Hesse, Haskins Laboratories Gallery, New Haven, CT
2007
Everything but Paper Prayers, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Radius, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY
Introducing… Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
Group exhibition, Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT
2006
Group exhibition, Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT
Aldrich Undercover, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2005
Works on Paper Invitational, Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA
2004
Radius, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum/RGA Gallery, Ridgefield, CT
PRESS
2023
Riad Miah, Two Coats of Paint, Gale Force: Alyse Rosner at Rick Wester, March 21, 2023
Meg Hitchcock, IN THEIR STUDIOS: Alyse Rosner, March 25, 2023
2021
John Yau, HYPERALLERGIC, Painting Abstractly in the Midst of Unending Crises, June 26, 2021
Christina Massey, Artist Spotlight, USPSartproject Newsletter, February 7, 2021
2020
Paul Schott, Connecticut Insider, Once the site of a Kids Foot Locker, this Stamford storefront now hosts art you can engage with, September 2, 2020
Etty Yaniv, Art Spiel, Christina Massey’s USPS Art Project, June 3, 2020
Etty Yaniv, Art Spiel, Artists on Coping: Alyse Rosner, May 2, 2020
Ann Landi, Vasari21, What is a drawing? Part 8, April 19, 2020
2017
Alexandra Villarreal, Greenwich Time, Artists showcase female strength at the Flinn, Dec 15, 2017
Harper’s Magazine blog, Browsings, Dec 18, 2017 https://harpers.org/blog/2017/12/all-at-once/
Karen Sheer, Greenwich Free Press, New Exhibit: “Venus Fly” Soars with Abstract Works by Three Women at Flinn Gallery, Dec 18, 2017
Liz Daly Culture Digest, Bigger Bolder Better in Brooklyn, http://www.lizdalyculturedigest.com/2017/06/bigger-bolder-better-in-brooklyn/
Fjords Review Women’s Edition, September 2015. Featured artist. http://www.fjordsreview.com/womensedition/index.html
2016
John Arvanitis, Take Magazine, Women of Abstraction, August 1, 2016 https://thetakemagazine.com/women-of-abstraction/
Susan Dunne, Eclectic Mix of Abstract, Off-Kilter Exhibits at Real Art Ways, Hartford Courant, July 26, 2016
2015
365Days365Artists.com. Alyse Rosner. August 10, 2015 https://365artists365days.com/2015/08/10/alyse-rosner-westport-connecticut/
Allen Appel, TEMPEST Strikes Library. New Haven Independent. January 9, 2015
2013
Anthony Bannon, At Fowler-Kellogg, Surprise and Invention Far Outside the Norm. Chautuaquan Daily. July 6, 2013.
http://chqdaily.com/2013/07/06/at-fowler-kellogg-surprise-and-invention-far-outside-the-norm/
Patricia Rosoff, Alyse Rosner: Large Scale Work. Art New England, January 2013. https://artnewengland.com/ed_review/alyse-rosner-large-scale-work/
2009
All Things Connecticut. PBS television segment profiling artists in the exhibition Full Circle at The Aldrich Museum
Allen Appel, Obsessives of the World, Unite! New Haven Independent, January 12, 2009
Susan Hodara, Celebrating a Decade of Nurturing Artists on the Verge. The New York Times. January 4, 2009
2007
Randi Hopkins, Know When to Fold 'Em. The Boston Phoenix. June 5, 2007
Raggedy Ann’s Foot blog by Elisabeth Condon, Girls (and Guys) Just want to Have Fun, http://elisabethcondon.blogspot.com/2017/06/girls-just-want-to-have-fun.html
Abby Luby, Silvermine Guild Shows Off New Members. Stamford Advocate. June 11, 2006
2006
Harry Philbrick, Alyse Rosner: New Paintings, essay in exhibition publication, 2006. http://www.alyserosner.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Harry-Philbrick-Essay_Alyse4506.pdf
Nadia Lerner, It’s All For My Art. Stamford Advocate/Greenwich Time. June 11, 2006
2000
William Zimmer, Form, Color and More from 25 Artists. The New York Times, August 13, 2000
1994
Katherine Porter, Recent Work 1994, catalog essay
GRANTS & HONORS
2016
Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant Recipient
2015
Artist Fellowship, Connecticut Office of the Arts
2008
Artist Fellowship, Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism
2004
Radius, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Professional practice and curatorial review, Ridgefield, CT
1995
Audrey Lavine Glassman Award for Painting, The American University, Washington, DC
1994
Serge Sacknoff Memorial Sculpture Scholarship, The American University, Washington, DC
1991
Critic’s Grant, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
EDUCATION
MFA The American University, Washington, DC
BFA The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Magna Cum Laude
RESIDENCIES AND ADDITIONAL EDUCATION
2025
Pouch Cove Foundation Residency, Newfoundland, Canada.
2020
Clementina Arts Foundation, Sprouting Spaces Studio Residency, Stamford, CT including community engagement pandemic frottage project @object.surface.texture
1998 - 1999
The Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
1991
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
1990 - 1991
The Photography Center, 92nd St Y. New York, NY
1988 & 1989
The Chautauqua School of Art, Chautauqua, NY
ARTIST TALKS
2022
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Visiting artist zoom talk
2021
Clubhouse May 24, Ask a Painter hosted by Two Coats of Paint; Sharon Butler talks to EJ Hauser about Voyagers her solo show at Derek Eller & Alyse Rosner about Trusting the River her solo at Rick Wester Fine Art
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Visiting artist zoom talk
2020
Critical Creative Studies Virtual Seminar, Northwestern University, with Brenda Goodman & Michael Rose, moderated by Varia Serova
New Rochelle High School, New York, Zoom presentation and discussion with 250 students
The Developing Artist, CT, Zoom studio visit and talk
Smith College, Northampton, MA Visiting Artist talk
Eastern Connecticut State University, artist talk
2019
Transcender at Brooklyn Fire Proof, Bushwick, NY Presenter at monthly lecture series.
Smith College, Northampton, MA Visiting Artist talk/critiques
Hartford Art School, Hartford, CT Visiting artist talk/critiques
The Taft School, Watertown CT Visiting Artist talk for entire student body of 600
2018
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Visiting artist talk/critiques
Pratt, Brooklyn, NY Visiting artist critiques
2017
ODETTA gallery, Bushwick, NY, Excessive Frugality artist talk
Flinn Gallery, Greenwich CT, Venus Fly artist talk
ODETTA gallery, Bushwick, NY, Colormania artist talk
2017, 2016, 2014, 2013
Smith College, Northampton, MA Visiting Artist talk
1998
Yale University, New Haven, CT
COLLECTIONS
Aramco Americas, Houston TX
Brian and Diane Leyden Collection
The Connecticut Artist Collection
Credit Suisse, New York
Eastern Connecticut State University
Fine Art Collection at Montefiore Einstein
GV (Google Ventures)
The Kirkpatrick Bank Collection
Morgan Stanley, New York
NYU Langone Health
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Houston TX
Selected Private Collections: USA, Europe, Middle East