RESUME

ALLAN ROSENBAUM

Instagram:  @allanrosenbaumstudio  email:  allan_rosenbaum@icloud.com

Selected Solo/Two-Person Exhibitions

2023               Substratum; IA&A at Hillyer Gallery, Washington, DC (solo,scheduled)

2022               A-Piece-A-Part: Regina Jestrow and Allan Rosenbaum; Artspace; Raleigh, NC 

2020               Memento; Quirk Gallery; Richmond, VA (solo)

2017               Kaleidoscopic Interchange; FAB Gallery, VCUarts Fine Arts Building,  Richmond VA (solo) 

2015               Binary; Mill Gallery, Pawtucket, RI (solo)

2014               Shaped Polarities:  Allan Rosenbaum and Fiona Ross, Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Gallery,

                       Norfolk, VA

2013               Dialogue in Black and White; Mclean Project for the Arts; Mclean, VA  (solo)

2000               Allan Rosenbaum, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

                       Poetic License:  The Sculpture of Allan Rosenbaum, Visual Art Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA

1999               Allan Rosenbaum: Ceramics and Drawings, Arkansas Art Center Decorative Arts Museum,

                       Little Rock, AR

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022                Hand Crafted; Blackrock Center for the Arts; Germantown, MD

                        Verso: A Virtual Sehnsucht Exhibition; Field Projects; New York, NY

2019                About Face/Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts,

                        Montgomery, AL (travelling to: The Art Museum of South Texas and the Figge Art Museum)                                                                                           

2018                Deep Flash: On Art and Transformation; VisArts at Rockville, MD

2016                Some Abstraction Required, Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC

                        Dredged/Drawn, Fed Gallery, Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI

                        Interpretations, Craft Alliance Center of Art and Design, St. Louis, MO

2015                Material World, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN 

                        A Journey from Realism to Abstraction and Nob-Obejctive Art; Charles H. Taylor Art Center,

                        Hampton, VA

2014                The Price of Freedom, Walker Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI

                        Good As Gold, Craft Alliance,Center of Art and Design St. Louis, MO

                        Material World, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN

2010                Crossing Lines, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Newark DE

                        Ceramica Multiplex, International Festival of Postmodern Ceramics 2009,  City Museum,

                        Varazdan, Croatia

2004                North American Ceramic Sculpture NOW, Visual Art Center, Richmond, VA

                        The First Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

                        Perchance to Dream, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA

2003                Now and Now, Second World Ceramic Biennale, Icheon World Ceramic Center, Icheon, Korea

2002                Big Head/Ceramic Sculpture on a Heroic Scale, Russell Hill Rogers Gallery,

                        Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, TX

                        Mastery in Clay, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA   

2001                USA/Clay, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian National Museum of        

                        American Art, Washington, D.C.

Selected Bibliography

2022               A-Piece-A-Part; brochure with essay by Hannah Lee published for the exhibition at Artspace Gallery, Raleigh, NC

                       Hand Crafted; catalog with statement by Rula Jones for the exhibition at Blackrock Center for the Arts,      

                       Germantown, MD

2019               Adamson, Glen, Jankauskas, Jennifer; About Face/Cotemporary Ceramic Sculpture;

                       Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (traveling)  

2018               Deep Flash:  On Art and Transformation; VisArts 30th Anniversary  Exhibition; Catalog Statement:

                       The Imbued Object, Nancy Sausser,  pgs. 35-40.

2012               The Best of 500 Ceramics:  Celebrating a Decade in Clay; Lark Press pg. 15

2008               Schwartz, Judith S; Confrontational Ceramics; A&C Black and University of Pennsylvania Press;

                        pg 166

2007                Risatti, Howard and Trapp Kenneth R.; A Theory of Craft: Function and Aesthetic Expression;

                        University of North Carolina Press

                        500 Ceramic Sculptures; Lark Press; Introduction by Glen R. Brown; p. 86

2006                Kangas, Matthew; Craft and Concept: The Rematerialization of the Art Object; Color Plate 3;

                        Midmarch Arts Press; 2006

2005                Meilach, Dona; Teapots: Makers and Collectors; Schiffer Publishing pg. 29

2004                Nicholas Roukes; Artful Jesters:  Innovators of Visual Wit and Humor; pgs.116-118

                        Peterson, Susan; The Craft and Art of Clay; fourth edition; pg. 294

                        The First Taiwan Ceramics Biennale 2004; Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum; pg. 89

                        500 Figures in Clay:  Ceramic Artists Celebrate the Human Form; Lark Press Introduction by

                       Leslie Ferrin; pgs. 36, 112, 115

2003               Now & Now: World Contemporary Ceramics; catalog published for The 2nd World Ceramic Biennale

                       Korea, 2003

                       Risatti, Howard; Allan Rosenbaum’s Eccentric Inventions; Ceramic Art and Perception,

                       issue 51, pp. 57-59.

2002               500 Teapots: Contemporary Explorations of a Timeless Design; Introduction by Kathy Triplett;

                       pgs. 134,188,360;

2001               Zakin, Richard; Ceramics:  Mastering the Craft; pg. 118; 2001

                       DeBoos, Janet. “Looking in the Mirror Aspects of Figurative Ceramics,”

                       Ceramics Art and Perception, No. 40,      

                       2000, p.52

                       Kangas, Matthew. "Allan Rosenbaum," American Ceramics, 12/2, p. 53

Selected Public Collections

                       City Museum, Varazdan, Croatia

                       Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

                       Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art

                       Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR

                       Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA

                       Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, AL

                       Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL

                       Madison Art Center, Madison, WI

                       Kamm Teapot Foundation

                       City of Richmond, VA Public Art Commission

Selected Grants and Awards

2015, 2013     Fellow, Virginia Center for Creative Art, Amherst, VA

2005               Individual Artist Fellowships: Virginia Commission for the Arts, Sculpture

1996               Individual Artist Fellowships: Virginia Commission for the Arts, Crafts

Academic Appointment

1986-2012       Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Education

1986                MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.

1978                BS, University of Wisconsin-Madison.