The Carlos Reid Gallery

Rose Masterpol

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Artist Staement

I work in a series format using a convergence of color, shape, stroke, line and Emotion. I seek to build something from nothing, and, sometimes, in the process symbols and images reveal themselves. I do not analyze, strategize or conceptualize; rather, I construct and deconstruct until I unravel an abstract “portrait of the moment.” I paint, build, layer, letting the painting happen and follow it. With this, I hope to give the work a presence that will grip rather than release the viewer after a glance. The work should catch the viewer in a web of revealing imagery and emotion. Viewers are dependent on their own perception and experience, thus leaving each with their own idea of what they have seen, felt and thought. Among my most gratifying tasks as a painter is to instigate such interpretation in my audience.

I relate to the thought and process found in the work of Joan Mitchell, Pollock, De Kooning, Kline, and Motherwell: the painting is a record of its making. While a photographer captures single moments on film or digitally, I paint moment on moment until I have all the right moments of raw human emotion captured on canvas. At that point, I see a grid-like abstract depiction of things I have not seen before. I won’t allow myself to transfer image, object, or idea to canvas. I am not interested in borrowing given imagery. I am interested in allowing something to happen, something that had not been happening before, that did not already exist. The work then is intuitively formed, breathing with a presence of its own.

About Rose Masterpol

Rose Masterpol was born in New York and currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She received a B.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts. She has been exhibiting regularly throughout California and the American (and Mexican) west since the 1990s, including one-person shows in Los Angeles, Provincetown and Santa Barbara.

Her career has blossomed leading to many yearly sales as well as being published in many featured articles in Blogs, and magazines, etc.


EDUCATION (ARTS)
California Institute of the Arts, CA (BFA)
Wright State University, OH
Orange Coast College, CA
Syracuse University, NY – 2 years graphic design/illustration
Onondaga Comm. College, NY (AAS) - 2 year degree in fine arts

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015/July Kobalt Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts “Dogmata”
2014/March Artamo Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, 11 W. Anapamu St “WHITE”
2012/June Hadid Gallery, 8933 Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles “Deliberate and Unintentional”
2012/May Artamo Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, 11 W. Anapamu St “Emoticon”
2011/April Artamo Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, 11 W. Anapamu St “Catharsis”
2011/Aug Artiste Winery & Gallery, Los Olivos, Ca (exhibited my art/ winery used my work on label)
2006/Nov Deja Design Gallery, Pico Blvd. Los Angeles
2004/March ARTFront, 1648 S. La Cienega, LA “Essence”
2002/Nov LA Brewery Art Walk, LA (showed in a loft space)
2000/April LA Brewery Art Walk, 2100 N Main St, Los Angeles
1999/Nov LA Brewery Art Walk, LA
1995/July BOVA Gallery , 8303 W. 3rd Street, Los Angeles “Summer Color”

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015/Dec. ARTAMO Gallery, Santa Barbara "MASTERPOL & GYÖRFI: IN CONTRAST"

2015/Dec. Miami Spectrum-Artblend 2015/Oct. Cambridge City Art Fair-UK 2015/August Kobalt Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts “Kobalt Celebrates 10 Seasons”
2015/July ARTAMO Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA “Artamo Summer Exhibit”
2015/June Affordable Art Fair in Hampstead Heath, London
2015/May Kobalt Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts “Twenty Fifteen Season Preview”
2015/April Glave Kocen Gallery, Richmond Virginia “Natural Surroundings”
2015/March Battersea AAF (London)
2014/August Kristin Johnson Fine Art, 323 Palace Ave. Santa Fe, NM “EQUUS ANNUM”
2014/August Artamo Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA 11 W. Anapamu St “Summer Mix”
2014/Jan. Artamo Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, 11 W. Anapamu St “Into a New Year”
2013/Sept. Ian Ross Gallery, San Francisco, CA, “Urban Influences in Contemporary Art”
2013/Oct. O Gallery, “The O Show” Alvaro Obregon 1-A, San Jose del Cabo, BCS
2013/March Factory West Gallery, Red Bull Curates “Canvas Cooler Los Angeles”, Santa Monica Blvd. LA
2013/March Broadway Art Space, Santa Monica, CA “WOMEN MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND”
2013/March Artamo Gallery , Santa Barbara, Ca, “ARSGEOMETRICA”
2012/Dec Red Dot Miami, FL with Pippin Gallery
2012/Aug Pippin Contemporary Canyon RD. Santa Fe “What’s this Journey all about”
2012/July Artamo Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, “Summer Mix”
2011/June Gallery 825, La Cienega, LA “Out There”
2011/April Create Fixate, LA – DTWN LA 613 Imperial Ave “Liberate Your perception”
2011/April The Advocate & Gochis Galleries, Mansfield Ave., LA 2-woman show “Raw Sophistication”
2011/Nov Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, Colorado Blvd. CA “Form vs. The Abyss” 2-woman show
2009/April Art Dimensions Gallery, 1326 Westwood Blvd. Westwood, CA
2009/Dec Gallery 1018, LA – Santa Fe Ave. DTWN LA
2009/WallSpace, LA – continuously hanging
2009/Aug. City of BREA Art Gallery, 1 Civic & Cultural Circle, Brea, CA 92821 “For love or Money”
2009/Spring Arts Collective, Spring Street– one night exhibit downtown LA
2007/Farmini Gallery, LA Pico Blvd. Current location
2007/Aug The Whole 9 Gallery, Culver city Main Street “Women Rock”
2005/January The Solaris Gallery, A Don O’Malvey gallery/closed 9013 Melrose Ave., W. Hollywood, CA 90069 “Electric Art Show”
2004/June Track 16 Gallery/Bergamot Station, LA “Hollywood Bowl Frank Gehry Sphere Art Project”
2003/Desert Art Source Gallery, Palm Springs - represented by gallery - Palm Desert, CA
2001/Oct. BGH Gallery/Bergamot Station LA – Fundraiser for 911-one night event “Art Heals”
1994/Downtown Arts Development Association “DADA Downtown Lives 94”, LA 1895 Bay Street
1992/Out of Darkness Gallery, Long Beach CA
1991/CALARTS Main Gallery, Valencia, CA “Raw” 2-person show
1990/July Double K Gallery, 318 N. La Cienega Blvd. LA
1989/May Mothra Gallery, Columbus Ohio “Wrapped in Black”

MUSEUM
2007/Nov Palm Springs Museum, “Artists Council 39th National Juried Exhibition”

TV/FILM
2012 American Express Commercial (Azizi Ansari)
2012 Budweiser - Eternal Optimism Super Bowl
2011 Rules of Engagement (tv show)
2012 Two and a Half Men (tv show)
2011 Time Warner Cable Commercial
2011 Old Spice Commercial
2010 Apple Commercial
2010 Charter Communications Commercial
2007 “Ocean’s 13” (2 paintings featured)
2004 Lexus Advertisement (print ad)
2004 AT&T Commercial
2002 Bernie Mac show
2001 New Dramatic Series (TV) “HMO”
1992 Art-House Film “The Pros & Cons of Breathing” - By Robert Munich

Masterpol in the studio

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