Mia Westerlund Roosen | |
|---|---|
| Born | Mia Westerlund 1942 (age 82–83) New York City, New York, United States |
| Education | Art Students League of New York |
| Known for | sculptor |
| Movement | Postminimalism |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship, Anonymous Was A Woman Award, Fulbright Program |
Mia Westerlund Roosen (born 1942) is an American sculptor known for largely abstract, often monumental works that reference the body, eroticism, and primal forms.[1][2][3]
Westerlund Roosen emerged as a sculptor during the male-dominated ascendancy of minimalism, and was one of a handful of women represented by renowned art dealer Leo Castelli in the 1970s and 1980s.[4][5][6][7] Critics such as Saul Ostrow and Lilly Wei characterize her art as postminimalist and feminist-influenced, noting its privileging of organic form, handmade processes and surfaces, and evocative possibilities.[8][5][9] Wei placed Westerlund Roosen among a pioneering group of women that "breached the barricades of Minimalism," individually producing work whose "distinctive, even eccentric forms and wide range of materials served as a rebuttal to the rational geometries, serialization, coolness, and crushing industrial scale" of that movement.[5]
Westerlund Roosen has had solo exhibitions at the Castelli Gallery,[6] New Museum,[10] and Storm King Art Center,[11][12] and appeared in shows at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,[13] Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal,[14] and SculptureCenter,[9] among others. She has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship,[15] Anonymous Was A Woman Award,[16] and Fulbright grant.[17] Her work belongs to the public art collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[18] National Gallery of Canada,[19] and Albright-Knox Art Gallery, among others.[20]
She lives and works in New York City and Buskirk, New York.[16]
- ^ Koplos, Janet. "Mia Westerlund Roosen at Lennon, Weinberg," Art in America, May 2002.
- ^ Cohen, David. "Mia Westerlund Roosen at Lennon, Weinerg," The New York Sun, March 18, 2004. Retrieved March 18, 2022.
- ^ Kandel, Susan. "Restoring Ceremony to the Experience," Los Angeles Times, February 23, 1995. Retrieved March 18, 2022.
- ^ Borum, Jenifer P. "Mia Westerlund Roosen," Artforum, January 1992, p. 105–6. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
- ^ a b c Wei, Lilly. "Beauties and Beasts: A Conversation with Mia Westerlund Roosen," Sculpture, September 1, 2014. Retrieved March 18, 2022.
- ^ a b Rubinfien, Leo. "Mia Westerlund, Castelli Gallery", Artforum, September 1977, p. 79–80. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
- ^ Butler, Sharon. "Jerry Saltz’s special request," Two Coats of Paint, June 1, 2009. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
- ^ Ostrow, Saul. "Mia Westerlund Roosen's Studies, 1972–2012: Surface, Structure, and Form in Scale," Mia Westerlund Roosen: Sculptures 1976-2012, New York: Betty Cuningham, 2012. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
- ^ a b Brenson, Michael. "'American Beauties': Images of Softness Rendered in Concrete," The New York Times, March 15, 1991, p. C26. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
- ^ Glueck, Grace. "Mia Westerlund Roosen," The New York Times, March 8, 1985. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
- ^ Prince, Kathy. "Mia Westerlund," Vanguard, October 1978.
- ^ Goodman, Jonathan. "Mia Westerlund Roosen: The Storm King Art Center," ARTnews, December 1994, p. 142.
- ^ Karmel, Pepe. "The Stuff of Dreams and the Natural World," The New York Times, January 5, 1996. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
- ^ Stich, Sidra. "Bridges and Grays," Mia Westerlund Roosen, Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College, Hopkins Center for the Arts, 2016. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
- ^ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Mia Westerlund Roosen, Fellows. Retrieved March 18, 2022.
- ^ a b Anonymous Was a Woman. "Awards 2017." Retrieved March 18, 2022.
- ^ Fulbright. Mia Westerlund Roosen, Grantees. Retrieved March 18, 2022.
- ^ The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mia Westerlund Roosen, Collection. Retrieved March 18, 2022.
- ^ National Gallery of Canada. Mia Westerlund Roosen, Artist. Retrieved March 18, 2022.
- ^ Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Mia Westerlund Roosen, Person. Retrieved March 18, 2022.