Relief
Joyce Robins, Harry Roseman
We are enormously pleased to unite the work of Joyce Robins and Harry Roseman in a two person exhibition devoted to the idea of sculptural relief. The artists, who are friends of long standing, have nonetheless pursued very different aesthetic concerns from one another in their respective careers. A contrast in sensibility is immediately apparent. But so too are significant common bonds: Both work fearlessly in fired clay with indifference to the perjorative craft connotations that medium might carry in some circles. And more crucially, each explores in his or her own way the pictorial condition in sculptural relief, sensing the way in which relief is a tension-filled region on the borders of sculpture and painting.
This exhibition was organized at relatively short notice, so we are especially grateful to the artists for their cooperation and good will. Special thanks are extended to Thomas Nozkowski and Benjamin Busch for their technical assistance to the artists in installing their works. From the New York Studio School, thanks are due to Jennifer Junko Cooke, gallery captain, and Ariel Churnin, assistant to the gallery director, for their hard work. Thanks are also due to Meg Crane of Ponzi and Weill for her sensitive graphic design of supporting materials. Unless otherwise indicated, photography is the work of Christian Carone to whom we are grateful.
Joyce and Harry are, by conincidence, co-exhibitors of a partially concurrent exhibition at the Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, with Will Mentor and Gary Stephan, which runs at 30 East 92nd Street through November 18, 2006. We are delighted to salute that exhibition.
Graham Nickson, Dean, New York Studio School
David Cohen, Gallery Director, New York Studio School
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South Gallery, clockwise. JOYCE ROBINS Green Circle 2006 clay, glaze, paint, 17 inches diameter x 1-1/4 inches Courtesy the Artist JOYCE ROBINS Bending Rectangle 2006 clay, glaze, paint, 9 x 17 x 2 inches Courtesy the Artist JOYCE ROBINS Red/Blue Bending Circle (Slipped Circle) 2006 clay, glaze, paint, 13 x ...
About Joyce Robins »
Joyce Robins was born in Greenville, South Carolina. She was educated at the Yale Summer School of Art, The Cooper Union (B.F.A., 1966) and at The City University of New York (B.S.L.A., 1995). She has had nineteen one-person shows of her art work, most recently at the Rebecca ...
About Harry Roseman »
Harry Roseman was born in Brooklyn, New York. After receiving a B.F.A from the Pratt Institute he worked as an artist’s assistant for Joseph Cornell for three years and for Tony Smith for one year. He has had one person exhibitions at The Menil Collection, Houston, TX; The ...
Curator's Statement »
A flashpoint between the senses Low or bas-relief represents a kind of intermediary position between modes of seeing. This has long been understood: to the nineteenth century theorist Adolf von Hildebrand, for instance, relief was a half-way house between things seen fully in the round and things compressed within a ...
Media Release »
Relief: Joyce Robins, Harry Roseman October 26 to December 9, 2006 Reception for the artists: Thursday, November 2, 2006 Gallery open every day, 10-6 pm NEW YORK: The New York Studio School is to present a two person exhibition of sculptural work, “Relief: Joyce Robins, Harry Roseman,” in its ...