Maya Frodeman Gallery is pleased to present Aviary, integrating brand new work from Jane Rosen’s California studio with a continuation of the artist’s immersive solo exhibition Posted / Turning from the summer of 2024. In the sunlit gallery, Aviary cogently displays the immense range of the artist’s scope, following over forty years of the study, emulation, and immersion of herself in nature. If da Vinci’s Codex on the Flight of Birds (1505 – 1506) brought us the concept of human flight, Rosen’s Aviary brings us rather to the aerie of the self; the artist’s lifelong pursuit of the sublime, something that speaks to the better nature found within us all. Three towering, watchful owls, one in carved French limestone and two in hand blown and pigmented glass, Burgundy rose marble and limestone, perch alongside a curated selection of work from this monumental exhibition. Two introspective Paterson Wall Birds in rough limestone take their names from both a William Carlos Williams longform poem and the Jim Jarmusch
