Roberta Rose: On the Edge of urban

May 1 – June 26, 2021

Rose’s highly textured mixed media paintings are designed to change the perspective of the viewer. They are created with a combination of materials – most notably acrylic gels and mediums, wood, clay, encaustic, and rice paper. The sculptural aspects of the paintings –from keys to coins to tumbleweeds – are often created from stencils and molds and are never what they first appear to be. Roberta Lynn Rose is an award-winning artist originally from southeast Missouri and has a B.S. in both Industrial Arts and Art Education from Southeast Missouri State. Her residency as a studio artist at the Foundry Art Centre has allowed her to expand on her artistic boundaries, culminating in her current body of work. On the Edge of Urban is now open during regular hours in the Ameristar Gallery, the home gallery of the Foundry Art Centre’s studio artists.

Artist Bio

Roberta Lynn Rose was born in southeast Missouri. Throughout her life, she loved painting, pottery, woodworking, stained glass, sewing, and various other fiber crafts.  Entering university, she pursued art and science, obtaining a B.S. in Industrial Arts and a B.S. in Art Education at Southeast Missouri State. A few years after graduating, she moved to Michigan where she taught Instructional Graphics in the Television Production Department at Ferris State University. While in Michigan, she continued to paint in watercolor and experimented in combining textured glass with her watercolor paintings. She is an award-winning artist with her watercolors as well as her mixed media paintings. After moving back to Missouri, she began seeing the potential in utilizing the various skills learned from her past endeavors. She was accepted as a studio artist at the Foundry Art Centre in St. Charles, Missouri, which has enabled her to expand her artistic boundaries. The result being dimensional, textured, acrylic mixed media paintings.