Bienvenu Steinberg & C is pleased to announce Variegated Stones, an exhibition of sculpture and works on paper by Jane Rosen. On view from Thursday, March 6 to Saturday, April 5, 2025, this marks Rosen’s most significant and in-depth presentation in New York in many years.

Balancing between the two dominant themes of Rosen’s endeavor - the natural environment that surrounds her studio in Northern California and her ongoing fascination with the imagery of Giorgio Morandi - the selected works manifest the full range of her vision as well as the complex physicality that informs her practice. Frequently combining materials such as carved and pigmented limestone, marble and hand-blown glass, Rosen’s sculptures simultaneously embody a unique personal aesthetic and a deeply reflective meditation on modernist sculptural traditions.

Among the works on paper is a hand-colored multimedia print incorporating a text by Leonardo da Vinci: "If you look at any walls soiled with a variety of stains, or stones with variegated patterns, when you have to invent some location, you will therein be able to see a resemblance to various landscapes graced with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, great valleys and hills in many combinations…And what happens with regard to such walls and variegated stones is just as with the sound of bells, in whose peal you will find any name or word you care to imagine." 

The gallery is also pleased to announce that three of Rosen’s sculptures in the exhibition will be included in The Ark, curated by Eric Fischl at The Church in Sag Harbor, New York. This exhibition, which runs from June 21 to September 1, 2025, will also feature works by Louise Bourgeois, Maurizio Cattelan, Sarah Lucas, Bruce Nauman, and Rosemary Trockel.

Born in New York in 1950, Jane Rosen relocated to a rural coastal property in San Gregorio, Northern California, where she has been living and working. Her sculptures, drawings, and prints often focus on animals—particularly birds—using them as a key to understanding human nature and the balance between culture and the natural world. 

Rosen’s work is featured in numerous public and private collections including the Brooklyn Museum, Scottsdale Museum of Art, Luso American Foundation, and the US Embassy in Tunis, Tunisia. Her credentials include a professorship at University of California at Berkeley, Senior Faculty Member at the School of Visual Arts in New York and visiting Consulting Professor at Stanford University. Rosen has received the Full Award in Sculpture from the National Endowment for the Arts (1980) and the Full Award in Sculpture from CAPS (1982). She has been honored by the Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City, the Pilchuck Glass School as an Artist in Residence (1999), and is a recipient of the Madein/Luso American Foundation Grant (1988).

Please email contact@bsandcgallery.com for a preview of the exhibition.