Rose Burlingham Art

In 2024 I went back into the studio, starting with watercolors and small oils. My main  interest is in forms turning in and out of the picture plane, whether abstract, figurative or some hybrid in between. I love the spontaneous idea formation that happens in drawing  and have tried to translate that onto canvas. Matisse, Morandi, Giacometti’s drawings and Guston are twentieth century inspirations for placing a figure in space.

I began exhibiting large pastel and charcoal drawings in New York while I was a graduate student at Hunter College in the early 1980s as Roseanne Generalli. In the mid-1990s I represented other artists as a private dealer and later opened several galleries. During those years I continued painting always with the intention of returning to it full time. For the past ten years I’ve been in Cleveland. In 2020 I started Abattoir Gallery with Lisa Kurzner. 

The recent series titled “Heaps” are about the precariousness of the physical body, an attempt  to convey the sense of a soul trapped in matter– that we are essentially a pile of disintegrating parts.