Rosebraugh seeks to find connections between man and nature, exploring how humans and the environment affect each other. Her artwork explores human’s quest for comfort versus our need for mankind to live mindfully on this earth. Her practice is based on the exchange of ideas and resources, sometimes with direct participation of people as possible vehicles for social change. Her work nurtures a discourse on human existence as a whole, its kinship to systems of control, time, and nature. Through painting, sculpture, video, and installation, Rosebraugh’s creations attempt to transcend the ruins of the past and the wounds of the present, by offering a context that facilitates the analysis of our responsibility and needs in a future unknown.
Rosebraugh attained her MFA in Florence, Italy and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California and Marnay Sur Seine, France. In 2016, her work was accepted into 3 group exhibitions in City Hall in Paris, France in conjunction with the International Summit on Climate Change. Rosebraugh’s artwork is part of the Permanent Collection of the Museo de Arte Contemporanea di Florina in Greece and was installed into the Natural History/State Darwin Museum in Moscow,
Russia for an exhibition on ecology titled “Now & After.” In 2018 her work was featured in a special issue of ACCESS Cultural Platform magazine published in Soul, Korea highlighting young artists of the year in contemporary arts. Her artist residencies have included sailing the Arctic Circle, creating work based on the importance of water at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, Italy, and researching water from the River Seine at the Camac Foundation in Marnay Sur Seine, France. She has created public art pieces in Los Angeles, California, Gearhart, Oregon and Paris, France. Currently she is the director of L’Expressoir Artist Residency in Marnay Sur Seine.
Keri Rosebraugh
American artist, lives and works in Marnay Sur Seine, France
Education
Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy, Masters in Studio Arts, 2016
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors, 1989
Public Art
Trantler, Wood and Bronze, Gearhart, Oregon, June 2020
Virus, 100 Terra Cotta Bricks, Los Angeles, California, April 2020
An Ankh For Paris, 200 Baguettes, Paris, France, 2015
One Beach Mural, Venice, California, 2012
Recycled Billboards, Los Angeles, California, 2008 - 2009
One Person Exhibitions
Thoughts On Water, The Sweet Shop, Gearhart, Oregon, November 2019
Nature and Man, Neutra Institute Gallery & Museum, Los Angeles, California, May 2016
Nature and Man, Cartavetra Galleria, Florence, Italy, April 2016
Gods’ Logos, Co-op Gallery, Los Angeles, California 2011
Selected Group Exhibitions
Corona and Climate Crisis, Group Global 3000 Gallery for Sustainable Art, Berlin, Germany, October 2020
Home As Situation, Bolivar Art Gallery, University of Kentucky School of Arts, Lexington, Kentucky 2020
GAMMA Young Artist’s Exhibition, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 2018
Office Hours, Beta Main Museum, Los Angeles, California, November 2017
Plantarium, Casa de Carraresi, Treviso, Italy, October, 2016
Now & After‘16, The State Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russia, October 2016
U Turn, Biagiotti Galleria, Florence, Italy, April 2016
Artclash 2016, Sala d’Arme Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy, April 2016
Gaia III, City Hall, 2nd arrondissement, Paris, France, March 2016
Gaia II, Galerie Amarrage, Paris, France, January 2016
Gaia I, La Maison Bleue, Paris, France, November 2015
Here & Now, La Corte Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy, November 2015
Contemporary Expressionism - The Creative Spirit, San Diego Museum of Art, California, September 2013
Eco-Art, The Malibu Lumber Yard Gallery, Malibu, California, 2013
Navigating LA, The Studio for Southern California History, Los Angeles, California, 2011
SHFT, The Continental, Los Angeles, California, 2010
Satsuma 7, Satsuma Gallery, North Hollywood, California, 2009
Recycled Billboard Show, Eco-logical Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 2008
Collections, Residencies, Awards
Strategic Investment Fund Grant, Oregon Coast Visitors Association - Public Sculpture, 2019
Director of L’Expressoir Artist Residency, Marnay Sur Seine, France, 2019 - present
Assistant Resident at the Museum of Glass, Seattle, Washington, 2018
Artist Residency with The Camac Foundation, Marnay Sur Seine, France, 2017
Artist Residency with the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy, 2017
Permanent collection of Museo d‘Arte Contemporanea di Florina, Florina, Greece, 2016
Artist Residency with thearcticcircle.org - three week expedition sailing around the Arctic Circle,
Longyearbyen, Norway 2015
First place award in the San Diego Museum of Art Artist’s Guild’s juried exhibition: Contemporary
Expressionism - The Creative Spirit, San Diego, California, 2013
Board of Directors, Eco-Logical Gallery of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 2008 - 2014
President, Society of Illustrators Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 2003 - 2005
Articles, Press
Los Angeles, Most Inspiring Stories, Voyage LA Magazine, 2020
Trantler Goes Live at Sweet Shop, The Seaside Signal newspaper, Seaside, Oregon, 2020
Virus Artwork Represents Everyone, The Downtown News, Los Angeles, California, 2020
Solidarity Art in Paris - Strength in Baguettes, The Florentine newspaper, Florence, Italy, 2015
Campus Italia - editione 2015 seconda serie, RAI television interview, RAI World, 2015
First Place Award of Excellence - Artist Profile, San Diego Museum of Art Artist’s Guild, 2013
Beautiful Sign Is Made From Garbage, Mother Nature Network, 2013
G Word, television episode on billboard artists re Eco-LA Gallery, Discovery’s Planet Green, 2012
One Beach Mural Video, Barefoot Wines, 2012
Keri Rosebraugh’s Eco-Art Tackles Themes of Destruction, Reuse, Mother Nature Network, 2011
21st Century Gargoyles Drawn on Found Paper, Treehugger 2011
Lectures, Artist Talks
The Wisdom of Nature, Keynote speaker, Clatsop County Arts Summit, Seaside, Oregon, November 2019
Our Broken Planet, Artist Talk, Studio Art College International, Florence, Italy, October 2016
Nature and Man, Artist Talk, Neutra Institute Gallery & Museum, Los Angeles, California, May 2016
Nature and Man, Artist Talk, Cartavetra Galleria, Florence, Italy, April 2016
Teaching
Rome Art Program, Rome, Italy, 2016:
- Painting Professor and Administrative Assistant to Artistic Director Carole Robb
Studio Art College International, Florence, Italy, 2016:
- Teacher Assistant to John Taylor, Beginning and Intermediate Sculpture
Studio Art College International, Florence, Italy, 2015:
- Teacher Assistant to MFA Director Karen Yurkovich, Graduate Seminar in Studio Art
Balthazar and Rosetta Getty, Malibu, California, 2013 - present:
-Art tutor/mentor for family
Barnsdall Art Park, Hollywood, CA, 1997 - 2009:
-BACSAC Program, teaching foundation and intermediate drawing classes to adults
Cultural Affairs Department of Los Angeles, Hollywood, CA, 1997 - 2014:
-Junior Arts Center, teaching drawing, painting, and sculpture to ages K-8, 1997 - 2014
-Barnsdall Art Center, managing adult arts program, 2012 - 2014
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon, 1992 - 1994:
-Illustration Program, teaching illustration/portfolio prep classes to undergraduate students