Rose Anderson: Relics of Industry, Nature as Sanctuary

R O SE AN D ER S O N: R E L I C S O F I N DUST RY, N ATU R E A S S A N CT UA RY

Rosenberg Gallery

Rose Anderson gathers photographic specimens while searching wild, untouched places for whispers of humanity in nature. She combines moments captured in different times and places to illustrate a story outside the time, space, and social constructs that enclose the human narrative. Her work imagines a world in which all of today’s conversations have gone silent, and non-human characters have usurped human roles. Relics of human society and industry as we understand them—as separate from and dominating over nature—are incidental, relegated to the background. Suspending our awareness of the constructs we build to inoculate ourselves against the inevitability of time and the forces of nature, we are left to contemplate the human condition in a larger context. We can gaze into nature without fear, see ourselves in it, and find sanctuary in something larger than ourselves.

Image: Chesapeake Bird, 2017, archival pigment print, 32” x 25”

The Wren Sings a Hymn in the Forest 2017 archival pigment print 18” x 32”

Among the Asters 2016 archival pigment print 18� x 23�

Rebirth of the Business District 2017 archival pigment print 18� x 32�

Rose Anderson was born in the late 1970s to a poor and extremely religious family in southern Maryland. Seeking to resolve her internal struggle with the indoctrination and isolation that defined her early life, Anderson secretly studied nature, history, and the arts. As a young adult in the early 2000s, she broke away from her religious community to enter mainstream society and build a career in the software industry. She began experimenting with digital photography and Photoshop to create a visual representation of her inner world and in 2014 began exhibiting as a professional artist.

Anderson now lives just outside Baltimore, using her property adjacent to Gunpowder Falls State Park as a center for building community around nature and the arts.

February 28 – April 9

(Please note Goucher College will be closed March 17-25 for Spring Break)

Artist’s reception:

Thursday, March 8, 6-8 p.m.

Rosenberg Gallery GALLERY HOURS 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday – Friday 410-337-6477

DIRECTIONS

Baltimore Beltway, I-695, to exit 27A. Make first left onto campus.

The exhibit is free and open to the public.

The Rosenberg Gallery program is funded with the assistance of grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the state of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the Baltimore County Commission on the Arts and Sciences.

www.goucher.edu/rosenberg

18443-7114 02/18

Cover image: Formerly Cathedral Street, 2017, archival pigment print, 18” x 32”