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  Laura Von Rosk's paintings depict an experience of a landscape. Memories or impressions are refined: a sand ditch along the highway, a gravel pit, a cultivated field, or just a peculiar bend in the road.  "There is a tension between form and what's going on in the real world.  And the form (dips, ditches, open fields, etc.) isn't just a product of what I see, but combines what I know about constructing paintings with some deep and as yet unconscious memory system with what I see in the landscape. There may be a story hidden in the painting, which I myself am still only vaguely aware of."

 

Laura Von Rosk received her M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and her B.F.A. from the State University of New York at Purchase, NY.  Her paintings have been exhibited nationally in both solo and group shows.  Her awards include a New York Foundation for the Arts 2004 Fellowship in Painting, grants from the Pollack-Krasner Foundation, the Bernheim Foundation in Clermont, KY, a Full Fellowship residency at the Vermont Studio Center, and residency fellowships at Yaddo, Blue Mountain Center, The Millay Colony, Centrum, and Dorland Mountain Arts Colony. 

 

3 Philosophers, oil on wood, 12 x 12 inches, 2007. Road to Lake, oil on wood, 12 x 12 inches, 2007.  Shepard's Hill, oil on wood, 12 x 12 inches, 2007.   

      

 The Fourth Place, oil on wood, 14" x 12", 2007. Severance Hill, oil on wood, 16 x 14 inches, 2007. Untitled, oil on wood, 16 x 14 inches, 2008.