Jim Rose Legacy Collection - Shaker Inspired Steel Rocker with Cotton Web Seat

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Jim Rose Legacy Collection - Shaker Inspired Steel Rocker with Cotton Web Seat

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This exquisite rocking chair is inspired by Shaker furniture. Its clear crisp lines and singular lightness unite and transcend both traditional and modern settings. What sets this rocking chair apart is its fabrication. Made from welded steel with a natural rust patina, this piece takes on an industrial aesthetic. Jim Rose Legacy Collection Rocker found steel with natural rust patina, cotton web seat 43 H x 25 W x 30d in 109.22 H x 63.50 W x 76.20 D cm JR0219 Jim Rose b. 1966 Bio Born in Indiana, Jim Rose lived in Europe until he returned to the United States to attend college. After one year at Bard College, Jim transferred to the School of the Art Institute in Chicago (SAIC) where he graduated in 1988 with a BFA. His skillful interpretation of the Shaker design is a result of intense research and field study of Shaker furniture, architecture, culture and history. After over two decades of dedicated work, he has mastered the minimalism of the Shaker technique and created his own unique visual vernacular. The quilts of Gee's Bend have become a monumental influence taking this artist's work to new levels of unique interpretation and artistry. His selection of aged steel results in a patina directly related to that of aged wood while his colored strips beautifully mimic worn cloth. Each piece of furniture is masterfully made and intended for daily use. Jim Rose’s steel furniture is featured every year at SOFA Chicago for the past 25 years. Jim Rose b. 1966, Wisconsin Education 1989 B.F.A., Sculpture, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL 1988 Student at Large, Welding Technology, Triton College, Chicago, IL 1985 Undergraduate, Photography, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Selected Exhibitions 2020 Unseen, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2019 SOFA Chicago 2019, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2018 SOFA Chicago 2018, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Art Market Hamptons, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Bridgehampton, NY Art on Paper, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, NY 2017 SOFA Chicago 2017, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Coming Attractions: Inaugural Exhibition, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Living with Art: The Newman Collection, 108 Contemporary, Tulsa, Oklahoma New Work, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2016 SOFA Chicago 2016, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Form Follows Function: The Intersection of Art and Craft, The Hardy Gallery, Ephraim, Wi 2015 SOFA Chicago 2015, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL NEO, Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI ICFF, Furniture Society, Javits Convention Center, New York City, NY 2014 SOFA Chicago 2014, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2013 Vahki Revisited, The Enduring Spirit of a Craft Collection” Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ SOFA Chicago 2013, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Fearless Furniture, Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites, Indianapolis, IN Inaugural Exhibition, Museum Wisconsin of Art, West Bend, WI 2012 SOFA Chicago 2012, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Sitting Pretty: Furniture from RAM’s Collection, Racine Art Museum, WI Simply Steel, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI 2011 Hiding Places: Memory in the Arts, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, WI SOFA Chicago 2011, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 Living with Art, Strohl Art Center, Chautauqua Institution, NY SOFA Chicago 2010, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2009 Summer in Wisconsin, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI SOFA Chicago 2009, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL High Honors, James Watrous Gallery, Madison, WI 2008 Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Art and Design, NY SOFA Chicago 2008, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2007 Transformation 5: Contemporary Works in Found Materials, Art Association, Jackson, WY SOFA Chicago 2007, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Variation, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Transformation 5: Contemporary Works in Found Materials, Houston Ctr for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX 2006 SOFA Chicago 2006, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Show us Your Drawers, Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN Marriage of the Minds, Fairfield Center for Contemporary Art, Sturgeon Bay, WI 27th Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ Containers of All Dimensions, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ 2005 SOFA Chicago 2005, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Transformation 5: Contemporary Works in Found Materials, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA 2004 SOFA Chicago 2004, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Right at Home: American Studio Furniture, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Am Art Museum, Washington, D.C. American Collections, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI More Than Drawers-Wisconsin Cabinets, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI Objects of Wonder, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI 2003 SOFA Chicago 2003, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Planting, Potting and Pruning, Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI New Work, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Men at Work, Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, WI 2002 SOFA Chicago 2002, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Case Pieces: Contemporary Studio Furniture, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Univ of WI-Madison Sitting Pretty: Contemporary Wisconsin Chairs, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI 2001 SOFA Chicago 2001, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Anything with a Drawer - Award Recipient, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ 23rd Annual Contemporary Crafts - Award Recipient, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ Shaker in Steel / New Work, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2000 SOFA Chicago 2000, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL New Talent in Craft, Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, Wisconsin Who Knows Where or When, Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, Wisconsin Shaker in Steel / New Work, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 1999 SOFA Chicago 1999, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL The End is Near! Artists look at the 20th Century, Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI Hands and Heart to Steel III, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Selected Collections Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, Arizona The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin Kohler Company, Kohler, Wisconsin Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites, Indianapolis, Indiana The Chipstone Foundation, Fox Point, Wisconsin Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin Awards 2008 Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship Award, Madison, WI 2005 Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA 2003 Grant Recipient for Shaker Interpretations in Cast Iron, PA Arts Assoc / WI Arts Board 2003 Arts/Industry Residency Program for Visual Artists, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI Publications “Selected Artists of Door County” Stonehill Publishing, 2016 “Galvanized Chest” Door County Living Magazine, Autumn 2012 “100 Artists of the Midwest” Schiffer Books, 2012 “Piecework” American Craft Magazine, February 2012 “Hiding Places, Memory in the Arts” John Michael Kohler Arts Center, June 2011 “Second Lives, Remixing the Ordinary” Museum of Arts and Design, NY, August 2008 “Studio Furniture” Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, DC, May 2008 “Discoveries by Designers” Architectural Digest, December 2005 “Contemporary Metal Furniture” Metalsmith Magazine, Winter 2003 “Studio Case Furniture: The Inside Story” American Craft Magazine, October 2002 “Contemporary Studio Case Furniture: The Inside Story” Elvehjem Museum of Art, 2002 “Chicago Style” House and Garden Magazine, June 2001 “Portfolio” American Craft Magazine, December 2000.

Creator:
Jim Rose (Artist)
Dimensions:
Height: 43 in (109.22 cm)Width: 25 in (63.5 cm)Depth: 30 in (76.2 cm)
Style:
Folk Art (In the Style Of)
Materials and Techniques:
Steel,Welded
Place of Origin:
United States
Period:
2000-2009
Date of Manufacture:
2000
Production Type:
New & Custom(One of a Kind)
Estimated Production Time:
Available Now
Condition:
Seller Location:
Chicago, IL
Reference Number:
Seller: JR02191stDibs: LU4511119955022

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Jim Rose

Bringing lively newness to weathered and worn found materials, artist and furniture designer Jim Rose mined scrap heaps and junkyards for the metal he used in his furniture, collages and decorative objects. He kept his eyes open for the ideal scraps of aged steel that could be bent and shaped into a base, frame or surface of his next piece, hand-picking off-colored bits to serve as inlays and accents.

Rose was long associated with the American Studio Craft movement, and many of his one-of-a-kind works can typically be characterized as a venturesome fusion of folk art and modernist design. Each piece, crafted by hand and with fastidious care in his Wisconsin studio, is representative of his work ethic and boundless imagination.

Born in Indiana, Rose studied briefly at Bard College in New York City and earned his BFA in sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1988. A couple of years earlier, he established his design studio, along with his wife Suzanne — an award-winning photographer — as his partner. During the 1990s, Rose and Suzanne traveled the American Northeast, where he became enamored with Shaker furniture.

When Rose returned home, he read every piece of literature he could about the history of the Shakers. The name derives from the popular moniker for an all-but-vanished American religious sect, whose members crafted honest, modest household furniture and objects as part of their belief in purposeful living and simplicity in all things. Rose incorporated Shaker methods into the production of his own designs. Rather than utilize the unpretentious hardwoods that the Shakers preferred, however, Rose worked with discarded materials, fashioning tables, case pieces and decorative objects from repurposed steel and other metals.

In the late 1990s, Rose began to include multi-colored metal into his works — adapting methods used by colonial quiltmakers. His furnishings began to take on a mosaic look, bringing a substantial amount of visual appeal and new charm to each of his distinctive creations. Rose also produced a body of work that drew on Ming dynasty designs.

With numerous showings at Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair in New York City and Chicago, Rose made a name for himself throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s. He had solo and group exhibitions throughout his career, including in Palm Beach, Florida, and Mesa, Arizona — as well as at many other galleries in New York and Chicago. Rose’s work is held in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Racine Art Museum and other institutions.

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