April
15 - July 8, 2001
The Noyes Museum of Art
Oceanville, New Jersey
Roslyn Rose, Hoboken, N.J.
Roslyn Rose is a master printmaker who is well versed in the technique and history
of printmaking. She recently turned to photo transfer as her primary artistic
medium. This relatively novel technique allows her to create a manipulated impression
by altering and/or juxtaposing contrasting images into a single framework. Therefore,
like photomontage, the new composition often emanates a sense of surrealism with
a great variety of spatio-temporal attributes.
Close Up is comprised of an array of head shots from ancient Egyptian, pre-Columbian,
modern European and contemporary Indian cultures. In this work, Rose unites and
examines varied physiognomies that otherwise would be separated by geography,
ethnicity, and time. She states, “When I worked on Close Up, I was intrigued
by the shape of the faces and the the most prominent parts.......I like the combination
of the depiction of living people with facsimiles of earlier interpretations
of the human face.”
Rose’s repertoire of images is well stocked with numerous slides she took
on her extensive travels throughout the western United States, Europe, and Asia.
Technically, the photo transfer is done by projecting an image from a slide onto
an emulsion-coated, light-sensitive piece of polaroid paper. The photographic
emulsion is then lifted onto watercolor paper. Watercolor or acrylic is applied
during the last step for a cosmetic touch-up or to smooth the transition from
the photographic medium.
Hsiao-Ning Tu, Curator
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