Cade Tompkins Projects

Jessica Rosner

American, b. 1960

Reading and writing are closely related to Rosner’s art making process. In her recent work The Ulysses Glove Project, Rosner refers to the 265,000 words by James Joyce in his epic text that was considered filthy and obscene in the United States and originally unfit for publication in the United Kingdom. Yellow rubber gloves become the clean, simple substrate for the myriad of calligraphic characters that represent the once-perceived muck of Joyce’s literature. On a personal level, Jessica Rosner’s journey with this impressive and ambitious work, is an ode to her late father whose favorite book was Ulysses and whose content and meaning Rosner struggled to grasp until this adventure and journey.

Jessica Rosner currently lives and works in Rhode Island. She received an artist residency and fellowship from the McDowell Colony, NH, and a Bishop Frances S. Merrit Scholarship from the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, ME. Rosner was awarded first prize by juror Judith Tannenbaum, Curator of Contemporary Art, RISD at the Center City Gallery for Contemporary Art.

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