Jenny Rosen is from Oakland and grew up in the Bay Area. She draws on her experience of being bicultural, learning Spanish before English, while navigating an English-speaking environment. This has given her an innate understanding of living a dual existence in a world that still demands binary choices and a deep appreciation for non-verbal forms of communication.
As a sculptor, Rosen mines individual and collective memory to make work that serves both to explore meaning and as a means of being heard. Mold making and casting techniques form the basis of her practice, through which she fixes moments in time metaphorically and physically. By casting evocative objects, she seeks to capture and transform personal experience into one that is less particular and speaks to a shared, perhaps uncomfortable, human experience. Finding connection through a shared visual language and bridging divides between disparate perceptions are concepts central to her practice.
Rosen holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley, an MA from UCLA, and a BFA from the California College of the Arts. Her work has been shown at the Craft in America Center in Los Angeles, the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, California, the Oakland Museum of California, and the American Craft Council show in San Francisco. It has also been featured in Handful of Salt, a Bay-Area-based design magazine that explores the craft of modern design, and on the KCRW Design & Architecture blog curated out of Los Angeles.
EXHIBITIONS
2023 78th Annual Ceramics Exhibition, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, as a collaborator with Nancy Selvin; 2021 Sh1ft, Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, Lafayette, CA; That’s Effin Funny, Shoebox Projects (virtual; placed third), Los Angeles, CA 2018 Nancy Selvin Award Reception, Isabelle Percy West Gallery, Oakland, CA 2017 Commencement Exhibition, CCA San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; CACCAMade, The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA; Ceramics | Heart | Books, Meyer Library, CCA, Oakland, CA 2016 Sad, Quiet, and Loaded, BFA Exhibit, College Ave Galleries, Oakland, CA; Socks and Rocks, College Avenue Galleries, Oakland, CA; California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, Davis, CA; CCAMade, The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA; Lineage: Mentorship & Learning, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA; CCA Ceramics Guild Show, Isabelle Percy West Gallery, Oakland, CA 2015 Seeing Red, Icebox (solo), Treadwell, CCA, Oakland, CA; Rock, Silica, Soapbox, College Avenue Galleries, Oakland, CA; American Craft Council Show, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA; California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, Davis, CA; CCA Ceramics Guild Show, Isabelle Percy West Gallery, Oakland, CA, 2014 Artisan Trunk Show, The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA; Crafting the Cocktail, Craft in America Center, Los Angeles, CA; American Craft Council Show, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA; California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, Davis, CA; CCA Ceramics Guild Show, Isabelle Percy West Gallery, Oakland, CA 2013 Slipping Away, Icebox (solo), Treadwell, CCA, Oakland, CA; All the Small Things, The Rockridge Library, Group Show, Oakland, CA; California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, Davis, CA; CCA Ceramics Guild Show, Isabelle Percy West Gallery, Oakland, CA 2012 CCA Ceramics Guild Show, Isabelle Percy West Gallery, Oakland, CA; California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, Davis, CA 2011 CCA Ceramics Guild Show, Isabelle Percy West Gallery, Oakland, CA; California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, Davis, CA
Christopher Olin, Crafting the Cocktail: Handmade Objects for Modern Libations/Brandyn Tepper Talks, KCRW Design & Architecture (blogs.kcrw.com), February 12, 2015
Regina Connell, The Best of the ACC (San Francisco) (handfulofsalt.com), August 23 2013
Making the Invisible Visible: An Interview with Mildred Howard by Jenny Rosen. Face to Face: Artist Interviews by CCA Students, Volume II (2010): 1-6. Print