Mia Westerlund Roosen - Artists (original) (raw)

Image of Foam Head coming out of concrete base

Mia Westerlund Roosen

Foam Head I, 2015

Concrete and foam

17 x 28 x 11 inches

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Right half has blue swirls on white background and left half has white swirls on blue background

Untitled (Diptych), 2008

Oil stick on vellum

12 1/8 x 18 in.

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Concrete pillar with peels coming off

Hoosick Falls, 2005

Felt and resin

81 x 77 x 72 in.

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Rectangular open concrete box

Mia Westerlund Roosen

Architectural folly 8, 2015

Concrete and steel

60 x 60 x 30 inches

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Two parallel concrete slabs, one laying across the middle of them

Mia Westerlund Roosen

Spanning time, 2015

Concrete

5 x 108 x 78 inches

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Lower half has light red circles on dark red background, top half has light red circles on white background

Untitled (Diptych), 2008

Oil stick on vellum

18 x 12 in.

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Left half has curved white lines on black background, right half has gray curved white lines on light green background

Untitled (Diptych), 2008

Oil stick on vellum

12 x 18 in.

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Concrete rounded cone with pieces of concrete draped over it and resting on concrete dowels

Magdalena, 2003

Concrete (Fiber glass reinforcement)

56 x 40 x 32 in.

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Thin pieces of concrete haphazardly piled

Carmelite, 2004

Felt and resin

55 x 85 x 74 in.

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Two slabs of concrete and one larger one resting on top to make a rectangle

Mia Westerlund Roosen

Bedding Down, 2014

Concrete

5 x 32 x 59 inches

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Light gray rectangle on left side, dark gray rectangle in middle, light gray rectangle with dark gray curved vertical lines on right

Mia Westerlund Roosen

Gray Series III, 2015

Pastel and oil stick on paper

15 x 18 inches

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Abstract foam head coming out from concrete base

Mia Westerlund Roosen

Foam Head II, 2015

Concrete and foam

20 x 21 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches

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Dark metallic gray of varying heights and lengths emerging horizontally from wall

Mia Westerlund Roosen

Stud II, 2015

Plaster and graphite

16 x 12 x 19 inches

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Born in New York with Cuban heritage, Westerlund Roosen considered two careers, one as a dancer the other as an artist. She cites her interest in dance as the reason her sculpture often refers to the body, its sexuality, its flow and its movement.

Emerging as a sculptor in the late 1960’s when Minimalism was the dominate, artistic movement, Westerlund Roosen chose the organic over the industrial, geometric aesthetic and held on tightly to her commitment to the hand made object.

Mia Westerlund Roosen has received several prestigious awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and a Fulbright Fellowship. Her work can be seen in numerous public collections, most notably the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; and the Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY. She divides her time between New York City and Buskirk, NY.

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