Paper cutout collages, like Festival of Lights, or drawings that illustrate the Jewish Festivals and holidays of Passover, Hanukkah and the Jewish New Year were created especially for licensing as illustrations for publications. Currently there are 45 “Flora Rosefsky” colorful and joyful artworks that are presented for licensing. Other artworks, outside of the three holidays […]
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While browsing through local antique shops, I often find interesting vintage textiles, like this red and white checkerboard tablecloth whose blank white spaces became the perfect support to draw whimsical ways of how one finds sanctuary when one enters his or her home. The people depicted seem safe and secure amid an outside world of
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Soccer is known by its growing loyal fans as being called “the beautiful game.” This paper cutout collage celebrates the joyful moment in time when one accurate strong kick scores a goal. This is the newest paper cutout collage created as an addition to my Athletes Series, saturated in vivid colors which capture the exuberance
Life Chapter 40 is one of nine “life chapters” seen as one large installation, starting with Life Chapter 5 up through Life Chapter 75. These visual autobiographies explore the personal journey of my early and adult life. Life Chapter 40 highlights my return to college to explore drawing and painting, while my children were receiving
Chosen in 2013 as the cover for a catalog for Diaspora, a national juried exhibition presented by the Jewish Women’s Art Network/Women’s Caucus for Art at New Century Gallery, New York, NY, the collage Disentangled 2 manifests Mother Nature unleashing her unrelenting fury. Photographs transform into floating cutouts; familiar faces and places are no longer
LIFE CHAPTER 5 is one of nine “life chapters” seen as one large installation, starting with LIFE CHAPTER 5 up through LIFE CHAPTER 75. These visual autobiographies explore the personal journey of my early and adult life. Life Chapter 5 highlights early childhood weekend visits to adoring grandparents, where I played cards, licked hand-dipped ice
A painted cardboard mail priority flattened box becomes the perfect support for the paper cutout text which expresses a hopeful message in what has become a more divisive and polarized political United States of America. Often accredited to an unknown author, the quote “There is one race…the human race” has been used by famous people
In 2018/2019, this work is part of the show TERRA inFIRMA, at the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, “an art exhibition that focuses on climate change and global warming through the lens of Jewish values and contemporary social activism.” Respect for ongoing scientific research related to global warming
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Using my collection of family glossy photographs to repurpose them as cutouts, original images become abstract shapes without knowing the connections once made between the faces and places. The cutouts, integrated into a support using store bought hand made paper with exposed fibers, punctuate the theme of the tragedy of sex and human trafficking in
One of four in a series, TREES: The Four Seasons, the work was especially created in 2016 for Atlanta’s Blue Heron Nature Preserve Gallery show, “Hidden Gem/Haven,” co-sponsored by WCAGA. The process to create the trees used the traditional Polish paper cutting method called wycinanki, using folded paper to from symmetry patterns and compositions by