A native New Yorker, Terry Rosen began painting and drawing formally at the 92nd Street Y when she was six. She received a B.A. in art history from Cornell University where she studied fine art and architectural design. With a knack for making the inanimate look alive—and the reverse—she started out as an advertising illustrator for Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s.
Rosen originated a whole trend—creating the well-known conversational prints of ticket stubs, fortune cookies and personal ads—for Nicole Miller, and also designed prints for Oleg Cassini. Rosen’s corporate clients include Absolut, Charles Schwab, Chesebrough Ponds, Gourmet and People.
Recently, Rosen has been developing collages. Her quilt-like images are culled from city streets—evidence of commerce and the time and place they were collected: ticket stubs, sales receipts, matchbooks, and gum wrappers are the artifacts she combines in journalistic fashion.
Rosen’s paintings have been exhibited in Boston and New York. She received an M.A. from New York Institute of Technology where she studied computer graphics. Rosen’s digital art has been in publications, and shown in galleries and museums in the US and Europe.
Linda Eckstein
Carl Van Brunt
Alan Weiss
Iris Gallery
Ross Lewis
Thaddeus Rutkowski
Scott Sandvik
Petria May
Madeline Tolins
Commonplace
The Quilts of Gees Bend
After seeing this show at the Whitney Museum in 2003, these quilts riveted me, as they were abstract collages of memorabilia, made from factory scraps and the inanimate remains of deceased loved ones—their clothes. |
Josef Frank
On trips to Stockholm I was taken to Svenskt Tenn,, where I was introduced to Frank’s textile prints that reflect an observation of the lyrical in nature, and a fascination with maps. An architect and designer, Frank also created furniture and objects for the home. |
Saul Steinberg
His use of line, wit, ephemera, still life, and text-cum-images, have always delighted me, especially since his perspective is mostly that of a city-dweller. |
M.C. Escher
One of my earliest fascinations and inspirations, especially his symmetry prints many derived from nature. |
Kurt Schwitters
His Merz collages of found paper objects inspired the collage that would become a textile print, “Ticket Stubs.” and legitimized my collecting ephemera from the streets, advertising and media. |
John Robshaw Prints: Textiles, Block Printing, Global Inspiration, and Interiors
John Robshaw (Author), Elizabeth Garnsey (Contributor) An illustrated memoir of another of my idols, detailing his quest. |
1984: Collages
John Evans (Author), John Strausbaugh (Contributor) A dense and colorful collection chronicling one year of collages by my idol, John Evans—in paperback.
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Escher – His Life and Complete Graphic Work
F. H. Bool (Author), J. R. Kist (Author), J. L. Locher (Author, Editor), F. Wierda (Author)
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Love That Dog
Creech Sharon
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Route 22
Benjamin Swett
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Design Research The Store That Brought Modern Living to American Homes
Jane Thompson and Alexandra Lange Foreword by Rob Forbes
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Seydou Keita : African Photographer
Seydou Keita (Author, Photographer), Youssouf Tata Cisse (Author), Andre Magnin (Author, Editor), Charles Akin (Translator)
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