The following information was provided by the artist unless otherwise noted.

New York artist Gerda Roze was born in Riga, Latvia and came to the United States in 1950. This year she looks back on a 35-year career in painting and printmaking, alongside a business career launch in this country after earning a bachelor's degree in socio-economics from Columbia University in 1960.

While she earned a living as a research consultant during the day, she enrolled at the Art Students League and studied painting with Sid Dickinson at night. Little did she realize at that time that this was the beginning of her formal art training and the beginning of her "second" career.

Independently, Roze has studied painting with Alton Tobey, Donald Pierce, and Harriet FeBland in New York, and at the Chelsea College of Art in London, England. Over the years her painting styles evolved from realism to cubism to abstract expressionism.
For the last ten years, she has been exploring the challenging world of graphics, mainly monotypes and collagraphs. She studied printing with Dan Weldon, Roberto De Lamonica, and Clare Romano at the Silvermine Guild of Artists, and at Pratt Institute in Venice, Italy.

Roze's works have been widely exhibited, including twelve solo shows, and are in private and corporate collections in the US, Canada, and overseas.

Artist's Statement:
Non-objective art is my language of expression. It involves an alteration of all previously held notions of artistic creation and expression, because it does not necessarily present familiar objects and ideas. it requires an "act of faith" on the part of the viewer to accept pure form and color as subject matter as well as style.

Museums and Collections

National Museum, Riga, Latvia
Dani Siegel, NYC & Southampton
MetroMedia Corp., White Plains, NY

 

Galleries and Shows

Vanderbilt Museum, Centerport, NY
Art Mode Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Mamaroneck Artists' Guild Gallery, Larchmont, NY

 

Awards and Foundations

Northeast USA, Silvermine, CT
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, Grant-Resident Printmaker
Art Show, Bedford, NY, Louise H. Renwick Memorial Award

 

Educational Institutions

Columbia University, BS
Chelsea College of Art, London, England
Pratt in Venice, Italy

 

Professional Affiliations

American Society of Contemporary Artists
National League of American Pen Women
New York Artists Equity

 

Reviews and Publications

New York Times, 2000 & 2001
"Latvian Art and Architecture," Encyclopedia, 1995/1996
Art Academy of Latvia, induction in its archives, 2000

Regina Stewart, Executive Director