Current projects of Herb Rosenberg
Review - Dr. Elaine Foster
Your Rockaway Beach sculpture is so handsome! You are so versatile! When I remember your sculpture over the years it has explored so many avenues! All of them; you do well, but this one is so pure, so simple and so sophisticated that it stands out and is very moving!
For me there is a sense of rising upward towards the heavens with joy! It's the color that elicits the joy. I made a pin after 9/11 with a bursting upward thrust, towards the heavens. A sense that we will rise again.
Booth 112
champagne opening reception: May 8th 4-8pm
from atop a 14’ high chair of aluminum and brass
Invitational, Sculpture Garden of the City of Leonia, New Jersey
National boundaries are slowly becoming faint as a global economy slithers through the myriad of cultures around the world. The unique indigenous flavors, colors, habits, sounds and ideas, which have peppered the earth, can no longer be protected by distances. Cultures are being assimilated, diluted and sometimes ingested or coerced. The digital world might be seen as having created an atmosphere, a WAVERING TWILIGHT, of the distinctions that have been the origins of cultures.
[The start of an introspective series]
The 15-year-old set up a large mirror on the ledge of a wide easel. Enthusiastically, the iPod was set to play loud, mesmerizing music he always used as ritual to be morphed into the zone.
He was startled by the staring eyes of a 70-year-old man introducing himself. Speaking of a reality check!
15-year-old features had installed themselves for 70 years in his mind's eye. They materialized every time he shaved.
It was difficult to continue working on the portrait. Staring at the person through the third person needed to be transformed into a first person experience.
There seemed to be a great many barriers to deal with. The shock of not having looked at the ‘real’ person for so long was disturbing to say the least. Perhaps my blindness had contributed to the many comments which have described me with youthful personae. For weeks I stared at many storefront windows introducing myself to myself until I was able to go back into the studio to face a real truth. I had grown to like the looks of the guy in the mirror.
2012 Tour Locations
Chicago, IL May 3rd-5th Hyde Park Art Center
Portland, OR May 11th-13th The Cleaners at the Ace Hotel
Vancouver, BC May 15th-16th W2 Media Cafe
Los Angeles, CA May 24th-26th am8bit
San Francisco, CA June 2nd-June 23rd Pop-Up Shop
Boston Area July 6th-8th LynnArts
Portland, ME July 11th-14th SPACE Gallery
Toronto, Canada July 18th-22nd The Gladstone Hotel
Philadelphia, PA Aug 23rd-25th The Painted Bride with InLiquid
Atlanta, GA Aug 29th - Sept 1st MASS Collective
Austin, TX September 8th-16th Co-Lab Project Space
Melbourne, Australia* November 10th-25th NGV Studio
Gallatin Art Crossing, Bozeman, Montana,>
Here is a monument to awareness of our vulnerabilities: to that which we take for granted which can slip away or be taken from us while we are going about living our lives. VIGILANT takes in its peripheral world. It can ingest the signals of danger. It senses the world around; stretching upward and upside down with its dynamic fluid form is in constant motion. Stainless steel shimmering flat surfaces appear as bold linear forms in space that have the strength to illuminate the many camouflages which are nonchalantly enveloping us all. It is hoped that experiencing silent words of VIGILANT, the viewer might recognize the impact of egos and greed that surrounds them.
She and he aught to pay attention to the birth of the flame, which at present might seem smallish but can, in an instant, be harnessed to extinguish the vital human treasures which we cherish.
Finally, something has emerged trying to trump the greed of Wall Street… Groups of people simply standing, talking to each other and [not to my surprise] others beganing to listen. This piece reflects the simplicity of speaking the complex in a universal voice.
8’x4’x1” Aluminum
The Visual Arts Gallery at New Jersey City University, New Jersey
A couple of years after the numbing shock of watching the two planes fly into the World Trade Center across the Hudson River from my studio I was again able to work on making beautifulness. The ecstasy was short lived. The studio became four walls of agony the night George W. Bush started murdering Bagdad. The nonstop alighting of the city with militarily surreal fireworks and the television coverage of it infuriated me.
The anger of that night poured out into THE NIGHT BAGDAD EXPLODED in JERSEY CITY. The ferocity of the bombing ignited the furious creation of the eight-foot by four-foot aluminum panel. The small wide-angle mirror in the piece is placed to establish the ownership of the events of that evening on every person who experiences the sculpture.
Alunimum and Glass 18”x24”x6”
Governor’s Island, New York City
14 Sculptor’s group has been selected for participation in the 4th Annual Governors Island Art Fair. Across from Governors Island is the Statue of Liberty. This public monument can be interpreted as a self portrait of Lady Liberty herself, in an abstract way. As a symbol of welcome and greeting, the artists of 14 Sculptors Gallery have created an exhibition titled HEAD TO TOE: images of themselves to introduce to the public. In this intimate indoor setting at the art fair, the sculptors choose to reveal parts of themselves, not necessarily dealing with their likenesses. >Thus spoke Herb Rosenberg through words of Zarathustra as his contribution to the ‘Head to Toe’ exhibition. ”What you see is the whole me, from head to toe through organized chaos of light, color and shimmeringnesses.”
Lemmerman Gallery
New Jersey City University
Jersey City, New Jersey>Two Pieces
‘Penalality’ 9’x3’6”x18” Aluminum [a section of “Dialogue” Installation].
Oh My! 3’6”x3’6” Fabric Dye on Silk
Flesh Form celebrates contemporary interpretations of the body.
Curated by: The Noyes Museum
Oceanville, New Jersey >‘Vigilant” 9’x4’x2’ Stainless Steel
An fine art exhibition inviting the visitors experience the work through the splendor of physical contact as well as visual aesthetics
See pictures of the exhibition "Dialogue with an Ancient Forest" in New Jersey, March-April 2008, The Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University
Its very possible that ancient forests around the world house the silent history of life's survival techniques from which, if we are to endure, we should learn to listen or perhaps, listen to learn. Eavesdropping on these chroniclers of healing we just might not land up destroying ourselves and the world we love.
Come and walk through an environmental awakening of thirteen, nine-foot columns within an amazing sound-filled space.
The installation consists of thirteen nine foot columns on wooden bases in which a wireless speaker system emanates a sound composition created by Andrew Rosenberg, Herb's son.
See pictures of the exhibition "Dialogue with an Ancient Forest" in New Jersey, March-April 2008, The Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University
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CALENDER OF EVENTS
- November 2011, Lecture tour of Brazilian Museums TBA.
- September 2011, From Head to Toe an exhibition on Governor’s Island, New York City.
- September 2011, ‘Bombing of Bagdad” in Afterwards & Forwards, New Jersey City University.
- February 4th- May24th 2011, Touch:Beyond Sight, Noyes Museum, MUSEUM.
- April 2011, Inducted in to American Academy of Contemporary Artists.
- March 2011, SCULPTURE MAGAZINE, review, Dialogue with an Ancient Forest.
Herb on the web
http://www.14sculptors.comhttp://www.artnet.fr
http://www.sculptureforneworleans.org
Herb's favorite links
Exhibitions in New-York
http://www.moma.org/Friends
www.graphitit.fr/www.graphiste-thierry-palau.fr