Laura Von Rosk
128 Burgey Road
Schroon Lake, NY 12870
(518) 532-7207
laura@lauravonrosk.com
www.lauravonrosk.com
Statement:
My paintings may be about a specific place, or a certain experience of a place. Some are in inspired by
other artists, most recently, works by European early Renaissance masters. The images are not actual
landscapes, but are constructed. Forms are repeated, emphasized, manipulated, or invented. There is a
tension between form and what’s going on in the real world, and the form (lakes, dips, ditches, open
fields, etc.) isn’t just a product of what I see, but combines what I know about constructing paintings
with some deep and as yet unconscious memory system with what I see in the landscape.
The paintings are oil on wood panel, and are small in scale (average dimensions 12 inches). My goal is to
create an intimate experience of vast, expansive space. By using the elements of the landscape I hope to
create a new reality, where memory is mixed and intertwined with an emotional response, to produce a
different psychological experience, a new interpretation of place.
Biography:
Laura Von Rosk received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA,
and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from SUNY at Purchase. Her paintings have been exhibited nationally in
both solo and group shows. Her awards include a New York Foundation for the Arts Painting Fellowship;
an Individual Artist Support Grant from the Pollack-Krasner Foundation; an artist Fellowship Grant from
the Bernheim Foundation in Clermont, KY; and residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT;
Centrum, WA; Dorland Arts Colony, CA; NY Mills Cultural Center, MN; Acadia National Park, ME; and in
New York: Yaddo; Blue Mountain Center; and the Millay Colony.
During the fall of 2011 Von Rosk spent three months in Antarctica with Biologist Dr. Samuel Bowser and
his scientific research team as “field/research assistant and art/science liaison”. The focus of Dr.
Bowser’s work is the single-celled organisms known as Foraminifera. The team conducted studies from
a remote field camp at Explorers Cove, situated at the base of the Taylor Valley, in the Dry Valleys, west
of McMurdo Station in Antarctica. Dr. Bowser and Von Rosk plan to collaborate on Art/Science projects
resulting from this research season.