The Gathering Place Art Galleries

Barbara Rosene

Simple Joys

Barbara Rosene Bio
 

Barbara Rosene is a committed, dedicated and self taught painter who has also been a jazz vocalist for many years. She lives and works in New York City and in her small town in Ohio, and has drawn on her life in the jazz clubs of New York for inspiration and also in the countryside and historic buildings of Ohio. For many years her art took the form of folk art expression, but after nursing her mother through the final stages of dementia and a subsequent escape to an artist’s residency in France, Rosene emerged with a penchant and passion for abstracts. She uses a palette of colors which she hopes will bring a sense of calm, joy, and a determination to pursue what feels authentic and beautiful. 

She has performed at Dizzy’s, Birdland, The Iridium. Mezzrow’s and Smalls as well as The Montreal Jazz Festival, and many jazz clubs in the US. She has had a recording career, and has toured with The Harry James Orchestra, for many years. Throughout the decades, she has painted. 

Rosene has built a body of work spanning from primitives to colorful abstract paintings. She is constantly reinventing her style, working on a range of work from primitive landscapes, New York street scenes and jazz club interiors (where she has performed) to exploring the styles of color field painting, and of abstract landscapes. 

Career highlights include 2016’s X Contemporary Fair at Art Basel Miami, her relationship with The Hiromart Gallery in Tokyo which started in 2017, and the December 2022 and 2024 exhibitions with The George Billis Gallery at The Red Dot Fair at Art Basel Miami.

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Contact Barbara: barbararoseneart.com | @barbara_rosene on Instagram | Facebook

 

 

Barbara is donating 30% of her proceeds to TGP.

 

Ken Long

Molto Varie: Assorted Works

Ken Long Artist Statement and Bio
 

Ken Long is a digital artist who specializes in creating processed and composite photographic images.

Sometimes it’s as simple as changing or highlighting certain colors, or eliminating them altogether when they distract. Other times, it involves combining two or more images using neural style transfer software or altering them using AI software to give them a painting-like quality.

His work combines analysis, an artistic sense, and a sometimes-lengthy trail-and-error process to produce a final image. Ken uses computer software to enhance the original photo, add interest to it, and help the viewer see the world around them in a new way.

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Ken is a self-taught artist. He began to create photodigital art a few years before he retired from a career in market research in 2019. The combination of increased free time, digital photographic technology that allowed him to instantly review what he had taken, and publicly available “deep dream” neural net software began him on his journey.

Ken has had two solo gallery shows at the Cleveland Metroparks Rocky River Nature Center, exhibited and sold his work at BAYarts, and won two first place awards for his digital art at the Westshore Arts Council annual juried show.

He wrote a brief history of his artistic journey in “The Accidental Artist,” published in the January 2024 issue of Zebra Ink, and explained the production process he uses in a presentation to the Gallery Group, an art organization that awards scholarships at the elementary, high school, and college levels. Ken’s artwork has also been used as cover illustrations in Inspirational Art Magazine and the Rocky River Resident Reference.

He operates his own fine art business, River PhotoCraft.

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Contact Ken: riverphotocraft@outlook.com | see more of Ken's work on Facebook

 

 

Ken is proud to support the mission of the Gathering Group by donating 50% of the proceeds of the sales of all artwork displayed in this exhibit to help keep its services free of charge. He has a personal connection to this place and its mission. One of his sisters wore a wig she got at the Gathering Group when she was battling cancer. Another of Ken’s sisters is a cancer survivor, as is he.