Artist's Statement:

      Spontaneity propels my process. I often start with words and swathes of delicious color. The words are eventually partially obscured by figures, faces, line, landscape. I form an alliance with my materials, be they acrylics, oils, watercolor, collage elements, to express the mystery of connection between interior and exterior. My paintings play with space that alternates between surface and three dimensions, between imagination and observation.
      With an unconscious wish for a dialogue between my work and the observer of the piece, I paint freely, imagery that seems to emerge as the work progresses. I surprise and beckon myself into the piece as I sprinkle my abstractions with the in and out of broken line and space to further the illusion of falling into a new world.
      Creating these works is for me an artistic-spiritual betrothal. As for all people who want to give meaning to life by working creatively or intimately with the raw materials at hand, making art is a merging that joins worker, work, and observer in a new reality that transcends the everyday and escorts us into an inexplicable realm. It is that realm that I express in my art.

Artist's Bio:

      Rosalind Brenner is owner and president of Manor Art Glass Studio in East Hampton, New York. Her unique designs and master craftsmanship have won her continuous commissions, including new work and restorations in ecclesiastic settings, homes and department stores throughout the country. Her art glass is in landmarks buildings in New York, such as The Chrysler Building, as well as the New School, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, and others. Her paintings and art glass are in many fine homes. She runs a busy studio where there are many works in progress, new as well as restorations.
      Rosalind has painted on glass and created gouache presentations for her stained glass since the inception of her studio in 1972. She worked under two mentors, Benoit Gilsoul and Robert Cariola, who shared their knowledge of glass art and painting with her and she had a three-year apprenticeship at The Greenland Studio in New York City, where she worked on the restoration of stained glass from the Cloisters and the Metropolitan Museum.
      In 1992 Rosalind began painting in watercolor, oils and acrylics, and experimenting with collage.
      Rosalind's art pushes painting into the realm of the contemporary by blending her own re-purposed artwork and materials and experimenting with techniques to explore concepts and ideas. The work is a fusion of the observed and the purely imaginative. She enjoys painting inner landscapes, which range from luminous and evocative abstraction to forms from nature, women, calligraphy, figures, creatures and music. Her stained glass background is evident in her use of color, line and shape. Rosalind received her MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and often begins a visual work with a verbal concept drawn onto the support that becomes partially obscured as the image emerges
      Rosalind is a published poet currently creating books with her images and her poetry.

      Painting award: First prize and publication of "Possibilities" painting: "2009 Sarah Lawrence College Commencement" -- ticket, invitation and program.
      Selected one woman shows: The Unitarian Gallery, Plandome, NY; Estia, Amagansett, NY; The Great Neck Arts Center, Great Neck, NY; Gallery Eclectic, Southampton, NY.
      Selected group shows: Deborah Davis Fine Art, Hudson, New York; Prudential, Amagansett, NY; The Women’s Show, East Hampton, NY; the Hector deCordova Gallery, Greenport, NY; Gone Local, Amagansett, NY; Now and Then Gallery, Great Neck, NY; Rebecca Cooper Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY; National Art League, Douglaston, NY, where she won first prize for collage.
      Selected poetry publications: Poetrybay, Long Island Sounds, Southampton Review, The Cortland Review, Walt’s Corner in The Long-Islander.
      Selected awards for writing: New Millennium National Poetry Contest-honorable mention, 2008; New Millennium National Essay Contest-honorable mention, 2008; The North Sea Poetry Scene-2nd. prize, 2006.

      Paintings and glass are in the collections of Alec Baldwin, the Gund family and Marci Klein.