Stephanie Rose (painter)

Stephanie Rose (born April 23, 1943 in New York City), is an American painter known for dramatic non-narrative abstract paintings composed of diverse passages including representational imagery and for portraiture in which the intensely recognizable subjects act out settings associated to her proceed in abstraction; both, she has said, involve a "combination of historical and existential perspectives". Rose’s reputation was traditional as an abstract painter; her sham in portraiture began late in her career in 1996. Exhibitions of her show typically include both modes of painting of which she has remarked, "Overall, the pivotal aspect for communicating meaning in my produce a result is the investment of a theatrical wisdom of psychological presence in the paintings."

"The astonishing art of Stephanie Rose occupies a essential place in Modern/Postmodern art history. Utterly original, her style effects a absolute synthesis in the company of these two opposing philosophies of art….. Content is intimately bound to form. These paintings, like the plays of Shakespeare, can never be exhausted – they are at all times renewed as every other aspects tune themselves to the experienced observer. Perhaps the most "Old Master" aspect of Stephanie Rose’s pretend is the quite savory surface treatment. Her rich brushwork can be combined to the paintings of Titian or of Rembrandt, or to the brushed metal of David Smith’s late sculptures in stainless steel. In her paintings Stephanie Rose achieves Cezanne’s proclaimed ambition; she has created a great art that is ‘like the art of the museums.’ In any museum it could support its own next to any art of the past."
James K. Kettlewell, Curator Emeritus, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY; Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, Skidmore College.