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About the Artist
Barbara Rosene is a committed, dedicated and self taught painter who has also been a jazz vocalist for many years. She lives and works in New York City and in her small town in Ohio, and has drawn on her life in the jazz clubs of New York for inspiration and also in the countryside and historic buildings of Ohio. For many years her art took the form of folk art expression, but after nursing her mother through the final stages of dementia and a subsequent escape to an artist’s residency in France, Rosene emerged with a penchant and passion for abstracts.
She uses a palette of colors which she hopes will bring a sense of calm, joy, and a determination to pursue what feels authentic and beautiful. She has performed at Dizzy’s, Birdland, The Iridium. Mezzrow’s and Smalls as well as The Montreal Jazz Festival, and many jazz clubs in the US. She has had a recording career, and has toured with The Harry James Orchestra, for many years. Throughout the decades, she has painted.
Rosene has built a body of work spanning from primitives to colorful abstract paintings. She is constantly reinventing her style, working on a range of work from primitive landscapes, New York street scenes and jazz club interiors (where she has performed) to exploring the styles of color field painting, and of abstract landscapes.
Career highlights include 2016’s X Contemporary Fair at Art Basel Miami, her relationship with The Hiromart Gallery in Tokyo which started in 2017, and the December 2022 and 2024 exhibitions with The George Billis Gallery at The Red Dot Fair at Art Basel Miami.
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