Exhibitions

Rittenhouse Square Fine Arts Festival
Philadelphia, PA
juried entry: June 2011, 2010, September 2011, 2010, 2009,
2008 and 2007

Bruce Museum Outdoor Arts Festival
Greenwich, CT
juried entry: October 2010, 2009

Paragon Fairfax Fine Arts Festival
Fairfax, VA
juried entry: April + October 2011

Silver Spring Fine Arts Festival
Silver Spring, MD
juried entry: May 2011

Paradise City Arts
Philadelphia, PA
juried entry: April 2009,
2008, 2007

Artrider - Lyndhurst
Tarrytown, NY
juried entry: September 2006

Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival
Reston, VA
juried entry: May 2006

National Museum of Women in the Arts
Washington, DC
group exhibit: December 2005

Celebration of the Arts
Fairfax, VA
curated entry: March 2009,
2008, 2007, 2005

ArtBaltimore `04
juried entry: October 2004

Pierre-Paul Art Gallery
Ann Arbor, MI
solo show: October 2001
group show: January 2002

Collections

Freddie Mac Corporation
Tyson's, VA
Chicago, IL

The Artist

I am often asked the source of my inspiration. It is an easy answer but often disbelieved. Happiness inspires my paintings...the colors, the energy, the play of asymmetry and balance. When I am happy, relaxed and rested, my paintings form themselves. I paint in the morning, best on sunny days. Flowers in the garden can influence the palette.

Sometimes, I plan triptychs/diptychs to carry a single emotion, a desired vision, across multiple surfaces, playing with the negative space between canvases. However, I cannot plan a painting. It evolves between thoughts, if I am attuned to the process and not trying to force a solution.

The work is not political, offers no statement, no defined imagery. Instead, a finished painting is balanced, with multiple layers of materials and colors, evident strokes and energized forms. The art of happiness.

Commissioned Work

An extensive collection of artwork has been developed for both residential and commercial clients. Given my interior design background, commissioned artwork is easily developed for a proposed location from site visits or construction drawings. Artwork is sensitive to the proposed environment, materials and lighting.

Often proposed artworks can be in the form of multiple images, diptychs or triptychs, single elongated pieces or series. Sizing ranges from 12"x12" to multiples of 40"x60".

Biography

Born in Detroit, Michigan. Graduated from the University of Michigan, School of Art and Architecture, with a BFA in interior design and fine art in 1983.

Reviews

"Rosenstein's work bears the unmistakable influence of Josef Albers and Joan Miro. Rosenstein crafts harmonious fantasies of fractured space and overlaid color."

"The dense, firm boundary lines and brashly, colorful works depict layers of dissected space, parceled out and brilliantly balanced."
Gallery director, Soho/Chelsea