Cosmologies: Mia Rosenthal and Jason Rohlf
October 17 - November 28 2021
Gallery Hours: 24/7
miniMAC (miniature Mount Airy Contemporary)
25 West Mt Airy Avenue, Philadelphia PA 19119
www.mountairycontemporary.com
MiniMac is pleased to announce Cosmologies, an exhibition of works by Mia Rosenthal and Jason Rohlf. Both artists work in modes that build connections to the universe through intimacy and scale.
In Rosenthal’s tiny drawings, made for this exhibition, her stellar mapping imagery provides a larger canvas for more local constellations, drawing from the pandemic vernacular practice of drawing and painting rainbows and placing them in residential windows.
Rohlf’s Shop Rag Project, a series begun in 2007 on the surfaces of used shop rags, connects to chance, weathering and process. These rag paintings are artifacts of a larger process unfolding over years.
Mia Rosenthal (www.miaonpaper.com) is a works on paper artist based in Philadelphia, PA. Her drawings are included in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Columbus Museum, Newfields (Indianapolis Museum of Art), Woodmere Art Museum, the Arkansas Arts Center, Texas State University and The New York Public Library. She holds an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and a BFA from Parsons School of Design. She was awarded a Leonore Annenberg Fellowship Fund Grant for the Performing and Visual Arts and a fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center.
She currently has a 27’ mural, Nighttime Rainbows, on view at the Philadelphia International Airport as part of Jawn 5. Recent exhibitions include: Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Earth, sky, present, past, DAVID RUBIN Land Collective, Philadelphia, PA, What’s going on?, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA, Innovation and Vitality: 150 Years of Alumni from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Avery Galleries, Bryn Mawr, PA, Holograph: Women on Paper at The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA, Spatial Flux: Contemporary Drawings from the JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey Collection, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, Referenced, Danese/Corey, New York, NY, Mia Rosenthal: Paper Lens, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA..
Jason Rohlf (www.studioassociate.com/artists#/jason-rohlf) is a Brooklyn-based artist working primarily in painting. His works range from his extensive Shop Rag Project to massive painted tarps up to 12 feet tall. His practice is heavily process-driven and reveals a deep understanding and investigation of materials and color. Each piece is the field for continued exploration as countless layers of collage, mediums and acrylic paint coalesce to become a finished painting. Conveying an urban palimpsest, elements of relief, affect, transformation, and time all become present in the work.
Rohlf’s work has been reviewed in Hyperallergic, Time Out Chicago, and Milwaukee Magazine among others. Notable solo and group exhibitions have taken place at Tory Folliard Gallery (Milwaukee, WI), ReInstitute (Millerton, NY), Rick Wester (New York, NY), Pentimenti Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), and Pelham Art Center (Pelham, NY), among others. He attended the Sam & Adel Golden Paint Foundation at Golden Artist Colors, New Berlin, NY, and produced a public arts project for the MTA Arts for Transit at Far Rockaway in Queens.
