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Battlo/Luz: La Luz # III
Free Fall Lover
Ecstasy
Re-Bound
Chairman of the Painting/Printmaking department at Kansas City Art Institute, Rosser moved to the United States from South Wales in 1972. Although trained as a painter, he has spent many of his productive years as an artist constructing sculptures and assemblages. However, in 1998 he returned to painting due to an unfortunate mishap in his studio. During a thunderstorm he was trying to make some repairs in his studio and fell from a stepladder. Rosser received a severe concussion and broke his wrist. These injuries put an end to his sculptures and assemblages since he could no longer use his power tools to create these works. In the fall of 1998 he took a year long sabbatical and began focusing on painting once again. During the past couple of years he has produced more than forty paintings. These new paintings are fresh and not overworked, but visually pleasing. He used palette knives, stencils, squeegees and masking tape in lieu of paintbrushes.
Poser’s Decoy
A former resident of Sedalia, Missouri, Thomas now serves as the Director of the Library Art Gallery on campus at Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas. He is also an Instructor of Art at the college. In 1998 he was included in Who?s Who Among American Teachers. His art can be found in numerous corporate and private collections throughout the United States. In the early 90’s Thomas underwent several major surgeries that greatly affected him and had a major influence on his work. While enduring his own medical hardships Thomas also suffered the loss of an uncle whom he had a close relationship with. At this time he became interested in biotechnology and questioned the benefits and drawbacks of extending life and the quality of life through medical intervention. He admits he still remains very interested in this topic and continues reading books on the subject. Thomas has always liked drawing and painting heads. He recalls that in Dance the head relates to technological issues since he had recently undergone kidney transplant surgery. It asks questions about our relationship with technology and our increasing reliance on it. The arrangement of various objects on the border compliment this interesting work. Thomas states that, ?interpretation of his heads may vary because his intent is to allow the viewer to discover on his own what his intent may be or make up their own narrative or even create a completely new meaning.
Untitled (2K)
Before studying with Josef Albers at the renown Black Mountain College in North Carolina Rauschenberg studied art at the Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, Missouri and also in Paris at the Academie Julie and the Academie de la Grand Chaumier. His numerous exhibitions include the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York and Staatliche Kunstahalle, Berlin, Germany. Considered by most scholars as a transitional artist between Abstract Expressionism and Pop art, Rauschenberg challenged the formalism of Abstract Expressionism. He is known for his ?combine paintings? that combine found objects with painting. This untitled work exemplifies Rauschenberg?s unique way of combining different things. Photographs of American middleclass life are juxtaposed in a narrative form. Even though this work was completed decades after the 1960s, the images appear to be from America during the 1960s.