about rose
Documenting the lives of artists coupled with curating art exhibitions is not just a career but a passion. My desire to continually learn more and to further understand art is why I write and interview artists, and why I avidly collect art, as well as books about painters, sculptors, photographers, poets, and writers I admire.
Since graduating from Cal Poly more than twenty years ago and working for Carol Siple in her venerable downtown Denver gallery -- where I truly learned the ropes from one of the best -- I have worked with hundreds of artists in gallery, museum and art center settings, and have written about them and their work for magazines and catalogues. My experiences in the Colorado art community have been varied and, well...interesting. I once owned a gallery in the Golden Triangle near the Denver Art Museum (actually, it owned me), I hosted a cable T.V. show on art (think Wayne’s World), worked for a faux finishing company, juried numerous exhibitions, and given talks and moderated panel discussions on everything from smut to contemporary Western art. Over the years I have made a niche for myself curating art exhibits for fundraising purposes for non-profits.
Exhibitions Curated
Masterpieces of Colorado, a Rich Legacy of Landscape Painting, 2006-2008, traveling exhibition sponsored by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Colorado Council on the Arts, and the El Pomar Foundation; Catalogue available
Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale, Denver, Colorado, annual exhibition, Curator since 1997
Shooting the West: Contemporary Colorado Photographers, Arvada Center for the Arts, Arvada, Colorado, 2009. Catalogue featuring all 18 artists: Robert Adams, Robert, Benjamin, Drex Brooks, Stephen Collector, Scott Engel, Chuck Forsman, Hal Gould, Roddy MacInnes, Kevin O’Connell, Eric Paddock, Jessie Paige, David Sharpe, Barbara Sparks, William Sutton, Richard Van Pelt, Andrea Wallace, Charles Walters, and Loretta Young-Gautier; Catalogue through www.blurb.com.
Artists for Colorado’s Youth Sale and Auction, Public Education and Business Coalition, Denver, Colorado, 2001-2003
Colorado Mountain Club Landscape Exhibition, Golden, Colorado, 200-2004
Colorado Lawyers for the Arts Art Auction, Denver, Colorado, 2002
Third Canyon Gallery, Denver, Colorado, 1998-1999
Toma and Associates, Denver, Colorado, Special consultant on the William Berger Art Collection book, “100 Years of British Painting”1997
David Uhl Gallery, Denver, Colorado (part owner), 1996-1998
The Art Seen, Denver, Colorado, cable television, 1990-1996
Carol Siple Gallery, Denver, Colorado, 1991-1995
Douglas County Arts Council, Douglas County, Colorado, Director, 1989-1992
Numerous private collections
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Southwest Art Magazine
5280 Magazine
Ovation, Opera Colorado Magazine
Colorado Expressions
The Artist Magazine
ArtRevue
Awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Grant for the Masterpieces of Colorado, a Rich Legacy of Landscape Painting traveling exhibition in partnership with Foothills Art Center.
Numerous panel discussions include “Lush Life: Wayne Thiebaud’s Saturated Realism”, Loveland Museum of Art, Colorado; “Contemporary Landscape”, Foothills Art Center; and “Art vs. Smut, When Does Photography Cross the Line?”, Michele Mosko Fine Art Gallery, Denver.
I have juried exhibits for many local organizations such as the Rocky Mountain Plein Air Show, Estes Park, Colorado and the Arapahoe Community College student exhibition.
Member of the Association of Professional Art Advisors, APAA
Education and Interests
California Polytechnic University, B.S., Business, Marketing
I speak enough German to get myself and everyone around me in trouble, have traveled to many countries in Europe, and road-tripped through most of the United States. The above photo was taken in Homer, Alaska where my husband, Dave, talked me into flying to Katmai National Forest to 'hang out' with the grizzly bears. We've had many adventures together since getting married in 2002 – his photographs of some of those trips are on this website. Together we are having a truly amazing time raising our twin boys, Frank and Kyle.