Trix's PixPlease join the artists at the opening of the exhibition on
Friday, September 8, 5-7 pm
SEPTEMBER 2017 EXHIBITIONS
Posted on September 5, 2017
I’ve been so fortunate to be asked to add my work to these two exhibitions opening in early September.
Please join me at the artist reception for:
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Hebrew Union College Museum -HUC College of Religion,
Sept 7th 5:30 -7:30 pm
One West Fourth St, New York City
Walking on Broken Glass_03.16.17
“Walking on Broken Glass,” (2016) is a collaged documentary image that depicts one destructive event during years of terrorism by my landlord before I was gentrified out of my loft in NYC. Homes can often be a place of terrible pain and violence.
“Trix Rosen’s ‘WALKING ON BROKEN GLASS’ conveys the violence that attempted to evict her from her house.” Laura Kruger, curator
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My historic and endangered architectural site work will be featured in:
Camera’s Vision: Archaeology | Architecture |Landscape
Fine Arts Gallery, Saint Peter’s University.
The gallery is located at 47 Glenwood Ave, 5th Floor, Jersey City, NJ.
Admirals Row and Timber Shed-Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn NY, Historic Row Houses
K. Hovnanian Hilltop Project. Essex County State Penitentiary, Main Prison Building dates from 1872 – masonry structure. Includes Women’s Wing, Hospital Wing, New Wing, Warden’s House, Power House, PSE & G, Machine Shop, Store House, Paint Shop, Root Cellar, Pump Shed, Sign Shop, Vehicle Maintenence Shop, Laundry. HABS Large-Format (4×5) Level 3 Photography Documentation before demolition.
The Sexuality Spectrum
Posted on September 19, 2012
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I am very proud to have two of my fine art photography projects included in the groundbreaking exhibition The Sexuality Spectrum at the Hebrew Union College – JIR Museum in New York City.
Opening Reception:
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 from 5:30 – 7:30 pm ∙ Program at 6:30 pm
RSVP & Photo ID Required: hucjirmuseum@huc.edu or 212-824-2298
FAUST’S STUDY 
1997, Edition 3/9
Archival Pigment Print
13.3 inches x 16 inches
Framed 24.5 x 26.5 inches
Enter into Faust’s Study, a trompe l’oeil painted room, and be confronted by a fearless man who is empowered and transformed by the duality of his sexuality. His starkly lit, painted face and figure emerging from the shadows are a tantalizing contrast to the painted Adam and Eve on the rear wall. Faust’s Study directs the viewer’s attention to the relationship between the interior details and the subject, suggesting a narrative in which the gender performance artist, Frédéric Koenig, who can so naturally appear both handsome and beautiful, dares the viewer to cross over boundaries of imagination and desire. Faust’s Study, like much of my gender imagery, blurs the traditional definitions of maleness and femaleness.
WRESTLING WITH LEVITICUS #2,
2012, 36 inches x 26 inches,
Archival Pigment Print spot mounted on black plexiglass
ABOMINATION: WRESTLING WITH LEVITICUS 18:22 is my first artistic collaboration with Susan Kaplow. Our installation explores the damage done by this biblical passage (“Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind: it is abomination”) and its homophobic legacy. The first to wrestle with the meaning of this verse were the early Rabbis and so the chosen text here is the Talmud page where their commentary is recorded.
Because this abhorrence of her lesbian sexuality made Susan feel “dead,” she had the Talmud text printed on fabric like that used in the traditional Jewish burial ritual and then hand-sewed it into shrouds (tachrichim). Susan asked me if I would photograph her in these shrouds and, together, we began the process of exploring the physical and emotional dynamics of being enclosed in the garments. We came to realize that the images represented our own commentary on the text, reflecting the impact on those who suffer this curse. Through the constitutive role of photography, we transformed and transcended the pain, ultimately retiring the shrouds to a geniza, in which sacred texts and objects which have outlived their ritual use are placed.
The Sexuality Spectrum is a groundbreaking exploration of diverse sexual orientations through the creativity of fifty international contemporary artists. The exhibition explores a broad range of subjects, including the evolving s
ocial and religious attitudes toward sexuality; issues of alienation, marginalization, and inclusion; the impact on the family, child-rearing, and life stages; violence and persecution; AIDS/HIV; and the influence of the LGBTQI community on the Jewish and larger world. This exhibition exemplifies the spirit of the College-Institute’s and the Reform Movement’s commitment to free and open inquiry, inclusivity and outreach, and advocacy on behalf of human rights and the eradication of sexual discrimination.
September 6, 2012 – June 28, 2013
Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion Museum
One West Fourth Street (between Broadway and Mercer Street)
New York, NY 10012-1186
Curator: Laura Kruger
‘The Built Environment’
Posted on December 26, 2011
Opening Dec 27th 2011 – January 21 2011
Reception – Jan 8th 2012
Dark Room Gallery
12 Main Street, Essex Junction, VT 05452
Included in the ‘The Built Environment’ Exhibition is my print from the
Essex County Penitentiary series:
Title: Essex County Penitentiary, New Wing Corridor. North Caldwell, New Jersey.
Medium: Fine Art Digital Inkjet Paper with Archival Pigmented Inks
Size: 10 inches x 15 inches
Framed: $700.00 – 16 inches x 20 inches
As both a historic-preservation and fine-art photographer, I am drawn to the timeless nature of a historic site; it is a repository of collective memories like those etched and concealed within the interior walls of this rusting prison ruin.
It was a cold December day in 2007 when I first walked through the Essex County Penitentiary. My assignment was to photograph the 32-acre jail complex as part of a required HABS (Historic American Buildings Survey) documentation before the institutional structures and outbuildings, built between 1872 and 1929, could be demolished to make way for luxury condominiums. Photographing the “New Wing Corridor” was not part of the job, but the gritty prison hallway pulled me into an evocative still life of decaying iron bars and unhinged doors that allowed the silent voices of those once incarcerated to escape.
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