Work Details
Kinship
2019
Ceramic & steel
38 X 12 X 12 inches
Inventory ID: #16295
About Rose B. Simpson
Most of Rose B. Simpson's artworks shown below are sold pieces that represent turning points in her career. For more information about currently available pieces please contact the gallery through any of the images below.
Artist Statement: “My life-work is a seeking out of tools to use to heal the damages I have experienced as a human being of our postmodern and postcolonial era— objectification, stereotyping, and the disempowering detachment of our creative selves through the ease of modern technology. These tools are sculptural pieces of art that function in the psychological, emotional, social, cultural, spiritual, intellectual and physical realms. The intention of these tools is to cure; therefore, my hope is that they become hard-working utilitarian concepts.”
Chiaroscuro has represented Simpson since 2007 and featured her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions over the years, as her artistic vision developed and her artwork made meaningful connections to more and more viewers. Some early major turning points in her career came with her 2011 solo exhibition “Thesis” which featured new work created in her New Mexico studio after her recent RISD graduation, as well as pivotal pieces she made at RISD during her 2 year MFA program. Simpson’s 2014 solo exhibition, “Finding Center” was anchored by the recently finished 1980s El Camino lowrider “Maria” and the five “Directed” pieces that would later become the basis of her 2018 solo museum exhibition “LIT” at the Wheelwright Museum of Indian Art, Santa Fe. Since the Wheelwright show her national visibility has expanded as curators starting including Simpson in important museum shows such as “Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists” which originated out of Minneapolis Institute of Art in 2019.
Simpson has a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Art, an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in Ceramics, and an MA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Recent solo exhibitions include: Wheelwright Museum (Santa Fe, NM), the Nevada Art Museum (Reno, NV), and SCAD Museum of Art (Savannah, GA). Simpson has forthcoming solo exhibitions at The Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia, PA), and the ICA Boston. Museum collections include the Denver Art Museum, ICA Boston, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Nevada Art Museum, Pomona College Museum of Art, Portland Art Museum, Princeton University Art Museum, Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
All Works by Rose B. Simpson
Kinship
2019
Ceramic & steel
38 X 12 X 12 inches
Inventory ID: #16295
Black Beads
2022
Ceramic, steel, lava beads, disc brake, grout
53 X 12 X 12 inches
Inventory ID: #16923
Grace
2022
Ceramic, steel, shell beads, lava beads, grout
29 X 8.50 X 7.5 inches
Inventory ID: #16931
Let Story Go
2022
Lithograph
60 X 28 inches
Inventory ID: #16934
Storytellers I (basket)
2018
Ceramic, leather, wood
19 X 24 X 22 inches
Inventory ID: #16122
Tamarind: Maria, Ed 30/30
2021
Lithograph, (2 prints18 x 46 each)
18 X 46 inches Framed
Inventory ID: #16686
Self Portrait
2016
Ceramic, steel, leather, wire
40 X 16 X 16 Inches
Inventory ID: #15578
Genesis Squared
2019
Ceramic, steel , mixed media
77 X 23 X 23 inches
Inventory ID: #16253
Mantle (Piece) I
2019
Ceramic & steel
21 X 15 X 4 inches
Inventory ID: #16299
Reclamation II
2018
Ceramic & mixed media
48 X 18 X 16 inches
Inventory ID: #16166
The Secret of Flight
2015
mixed media
33 X 18 X 19 inches
Inventory ID: #15258