biography
Shirley Rosenthal has been exhibiting her enamel wall-panels since 1965. She participated in national juried shows sponsored by American Crafts Council at Rhinebeck, NY and Baltimore for 14 years, working with galleries, private commissions and direct sales to the public.
Rosenthal has served on numerous juries, including One Hundred American Craftsmen, Kenan Center, Lockport, NY; East Aurora Art Festival; Allentown Art Festival, Buffalo, NY; and Roycroft Art Festival. Ms. Rosenthal's work is included in many public and commercial buildings, among them Blue Cross/Blue Shield lobby, Buffalo, NY; Moog, Inc., East Aurora, NY; Life Technologies, Grand Island, NY; Brylin Hospital, Buffalo, NY; Sisters Hospital Board Room, Buffalo, NY, as well as many private collections.
She has taught enameling at the Jewish Center of Greater Buffalo, at Kenan Center, Lockport, NY; at Elderhostel sessions in Lewiston, NY and has given numerous enameling workshops.
Ms. Rosenthal participated in the Kenan Center Craft Festival every year since its inception in l972 and was awarded Master Craftsman status and received Best of Show Award. She is also a member of Buffalo Society of Artists and has exhibited annually in its juried exhibitions and has been awarded numberous honors from that organization. Her work was exhibited in the Craft Art of Western New York at the Burchfield-Penney Gallery in 1990, 1992 and 1994. She is represented in the Charles Rand Penney Collection.
In the past two years Ms. Rosenthal has turned her attention from enamel wall-panels to mixed-metals wall-reliefs, in some cases combining enamels and various other mixed media objects.
Currently she works by commission only but in the past has had her work exhibited in many fine galleries throughout the country, primarily the Holsten Galleries in Palm Beach, Florida and Stockbridge, New York. Her work has been included in the books "Enamels, Enameling, Enamelists" and "Ecclesiastical Art".
artist's statement
Copper has always fascinated me and until recently, my wall-panels were created by using vitreous-enamel and fusing it to copper in a kiln. In the past two years, I have become enamored of texture and have been working with rusted metals, patinas and a variety of found metals. They have been combined as collages. It is very satisfying to work without a kiln and attempt to achieve surface-interest through a variety of methods for coloring and texturing to produce my current wall-structures.
description of each work
Altar , 16" x20", Mixed Media, Not for Sale (NFS)
From the Ashes, 24" x 16", Mixed Media, NFS
Homage to Cho-Cho-San, 19" x 26", Copper-NFS
Insight, 7" x 12", Mixed Media, $250
Pueblo, 19" x 24", Mixed Media, $450
Sentry, 14" x 16", Mixed Media, NFS
The Seeker, 7" x 42", Mixed Media, NFS
contact information
For more information about any work of art by Ms. Rosenthal and to find out about commissioning new work click the email link below:
or call: 716.929.5457 (USA country code 01)