Nationality United States Great-grandparent David Rose | Occupation Artist | |
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Parents Jonathan F.P. Rose, Diana Calthorpe Rose Books Rachel Rose. Palisades: Serpentine Gallery Grandparents Frederick P. Rose, Sandra Priest Rose | ||
Rachel Rose (born 1986) is an American artist known for her video installations that merge moving images and sound within nuanced environments connecting them to broader but related subject matter. Rose has presented solo exhibits at the Serpentine Galleries and the Whitney Museum of Art.
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Early life and education
Rose is the daughter of Diana (née Calthorpe) and Jonathan F. P. Rose. Her father is an urban planner with a focus on sustainable housing, and her uncle is architect Peter Calthorpe. She grew up on a farm in upstate New York. She earned a B.A. in art from Yale University; a M.A. in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art; and a M.F.A. from Columbia University. She entered graduate school as an abstract painter where she studied under Rirkrit Tiravanija.
Work
Rose produces video installations juxtaposing images and sounds demonstrating that life is complex and intricate. Whitney curator Christopher Y. Lew approved of “how she was able to gather such a mix of images, and of content as well, and weave it into a unique narrative. She pulled some kind of order out of our whirlpool of information, without ever denying the flood". Rose's videos consist of original footage and found material combined to depict an autonomous perspective using language and technology. Her experiential pieces work to convey sensorial aspects of ideas by manipulating sound and image. Her imagery depicts "humanity's shard current anxieties and their multi-layered interconnectivity" as well as humanities' relationship to the natural world, advancing technology, mortality, and history. Each video is driven by an intense period of research centered on a subject, theory or belief.
The Taipei Biennial exhibition featured Rose's 2013 video, Sitting Feeding Sleeping, which debuted at the artist's graduate thesis exhibition.
Rose's 2014 video Palisades in Palisades focused on the human relationship with the natural world and was shot in Palisades Interstate Park in New Jersey. Her video A Minute Ago focuses on Philip Johnson's Glass House and was shown in Rose's exhibition, Palisades, at Serpentine Gallery in London in 2015. Palisades featured both A Minute Ago and Palisades in Palisades.
In October 2015, Rose presented Everything and More, a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Rose projected the video on a semi-transparent screen and covered the windows of the gallery's black box with opaque scrim to achieve an out-of-body feel. Everything and More was inspired by David Wolf's experience of a space walk. The 11 minute and 30 second film was partially shot in a neutral buoyancy pool at the University of Maryland.
Rose will be participating in the 2017 Venice Biennale, Viva Arte Viva, May 13 - November 16, 2017.
Exhibitions
Awards
Rose won the illy Present Future Prize at Artissima 2014 and the Frieze Artist Award for site-specific installations by emerging artists at the London fair.