Rose Burlingham Art

I’m a painter based in Cleveland and New York. During graduate school at Hunter College in  the early 1980s I began exhibiting in the East Village and at Hal Bromm Gallery under my maiden name (Roseanne Generalli).

In addition to painting, in the mid-1990s I represented other artists and later opened several galleries. In 2020 I started Abattoir gallery with Lisa Kurzner in Cleveland. In 2024 I went back into the studio full time.

I’m interested in forms turning in and out of the picture plane, whether abstract, figurative or some hybrid in between. I love the initial spark of an idea in formation that happens in drawing and have tried to translate that onto canvas. Matisse, Morandiand Giacometti’s drawings are twentieth century inspirations for placing a figure in space – transparent figures layered into indicated interiors.

My most recent series titled Heaps, about the precariousness of the physical body, is an attempt  to convey the sense of a soul trapped in matter– that we are essentially a pile of disintegrating parts. In the series Stacks, space is filled with toppling forms, body parts and stones. Both series were done after a visit to Morandi’s studio in Bologna.