Rose Burlingham is a painter based in Cleveland and New York. During graduate school at Hunter College in the early 1980s she began exhibiting in the East Village and at Hal Bromm Gallery under the name Roseanne Generalli.
In addition to painting, in the mid-1990s she represented other artists and later opened several galleries. In 2020 she started Abattoir gallery with Lisa Kurzner in Cleveland, and in 2024 went back into the studio full time.
Her most recent series titled Heaps, about the precariousness of the physical body, is an attempt to convey the sense of a soul trapped in matter – that we are essentially a pile of disintegrating parts. In the series Stacks, space is filled with toppling forms, body parts and stones. Both series were done after a visit to Morandi’s studio in Bologna.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I’m interested in forms turning in and out of the picture plane, whether abstract, figurative or some hybrid in between. I love the initial spark of an idea in formation that happens in drawing and have tried to translate that onto canvas. Matisse, Morandi and Giacometti's drawings are twentieth century inspirations for placing a figure in space – transparent figures layered into indicated interiors.
Education
Hunter College Graduate School, New York
B.A., Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Columbia University Art School in Romeana.
One Person Exhibitions
1996 • Wing Gallery, New York
1988 • Street, Boston
1986 • Sea Monsters, David Wright Gallery, Wellfleet
1983 • Hal Bromm Gallery, New York
1982 • Hal Bromm Gallery, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 • ALS Benefit
2023 • Hildebrandt Collective Open Studios (yearly)
2010 • Friends Seminary
2012 • Thorntree Benefit (yearly)
2003 • I 20 Gallery, LREI Benefit (yearly)
2002 • I 20 Gallery, LREI Benefit
2002 • Nassau County Museum
2002 • Grace Church School
2001 • Nassau County Museum
2001 • Threadwaxing Space, LREI Benefit
1999 • Paper+, Dieu Donne Papermill Gallery
1998 • Postcards, Dieu Donne Papermill Gallery
1997 • New York Academy of Art, Take Home a Nude
1995 • Red Windows, Barneys, New York
1993 • Monotypes, Museum Editions, New York
1993 • Anna DeBriano, New York
1991 • Salon Show, OIA
1990 • Hal Bromm Gallery
1989 • Tribeca Alert, Neo-Persona Gallery
1986 • "Fresh Fish", David Wright Gallery
1984 • Hal Bromm Gallery
1984 • Post Modern Man, PS 122, Robert Costa, Curator
1984 • PS1, New Wave, New York
1983 • Hal Bromm Gallery, The Agitated Figure
1982 • The Agitated Figure, Hallwalls, Buffalo, Richard Flood curator
1981 • New Work, New Talent, Hal Bromm Gallery
1981 • CAPS Show, Hunter College Gallery
1980 • Patricia Field
Collections
John and Tracy Valko, Cleveland
E. Gugggenheim & R. Wilkinson, Princeton
George F Kennan, Princeton
Patricia Field, New York
David McDermott & Peter McGough
Ronald Kutchta, Syracuse
Trey Speegle, New York
Robin Tewes
Gary Marotta, Boston
General Mills
Hunt Slonem
Bob Gottesman
Paul Bridgewater
Jonathan Schell
M. Farber
Christopher Kennan
Publications
"Hot Properties", Metropolitan Home, Volume XXI, April, 1989.
"Reviews", Donald Kuspit, Art Forum, October 1982.
"Emoting Over the Figure", Grace Glueck, The New York Times, May 30, 1982.
"The New Emotionalism at Hallwalls Gallery", R.J. Smith, Buffalo, April 18, 1982.
"Spiritual Art that Rises Above the Ordinary", Anthony Bannon, April 6, 1982.
“A January Guide to Gallery Hopping", Grace Glueck, The New York Times, January 15, 1982.
"Agitated Figure: The New Emotionalism", Richard Flood, Hallwalls Pub. January 15, 1982.
English Section, Anthony Shugaar, Il Progresso, New York, December 6, 1981.
"Art Picks", Gerald Marzorati, Soho News, June 10, 1981.