Statement

Recently, my work has moved in a direction that more fluidly references the mystifying "realness" of the world and offers an alternative reality. These seemingly diverse narrative, still and landscape works, which move between representation and abstraction, are really about the big things and small, and often the usual: love, loss, mortality, imagination, poetry and music. 

What I find most interesting in the creative process is the making of the piece, and the role chance plays in the outcome. The work that I am currently involved with is the most important to me, because it is the one that is uncertain, unresolved, and therefore alive.

Summary

Rosanne Retz resides in Amherst, Massachusetts.  She received a B.A. and an M.A. from the State University of New York and an M.F.A. degree from Southern Illinois University.  She is a Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Rosanne Retz: From a Private Place, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2005, Rosanne Retz: Graffiikkaa, Lahden Taidepanimo Hiivahuone, Lahti, Finland, 2004; Filtered Light: An Exhibition of Recent Prints, R.H. Renlund Museum, Kokkola, Finland, 2003.

Recent Group shows include: Sixth Annual International Miniprint Triennial, Lahti Art Museum, Finland, November 2007 - February 2008, State of the Art 2007: An Exhibition of Art Work from Massachusetts State Colleges and University Art Department Faculties, November 5 - December 21, 2007, The Art Gallery at Bunker Hill Community College, Ma., The Small Print Show, 297 Gallery, Bristol, Rhode Island, May 5 - 31, 2007, New Landscape, The Boston Printmakers Show, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts, 2006, The Boston Printmakers 2005 North American Print Biennial, 808 Gallery Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts; Made in Finland: An Exhibition of Gravure Prints, Hanoi University Gallery of Art, Hanoi, Viet Nam , 2003; Fourth International Miniprint Triennial, Lahti Art Museum, Lahti, Finland; Boston Printmakers 2001 North American Print Exhibition, 808 Gallery at Boston University; VI International Art Triennale Majdanek 2000, Droga Meczennikow Majdanka Museum, Lublin, Poland; 23rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Art in Sarajevo, Gallery Collegium Artisticum, Bosnia/Herzegovina; International Biennial of Graphic Art, Jakopic Gallery, Ljublijana, Slovenia; 11th Tallinn Print Triennial, Rotermann's Salt Storage Arts Centre, Tallinn, Ahtri, Estonia;  Under Pressure: Prints and Books from the Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, California.