Greetings!!!

 

After a short hiatus, I’m back! We moved to Dover, NH and I’m back in the part of the world that nurtured my art career from the very beginning! It’s so good to see so many familiar faces…

…AND my first solo exhibition back in my old neighborhood is at the new Winter Holben Building, with their newest venture: 3 Walker Contemporary, a gallery promoting contemporary artists. I can’t believe my good fortune!

 

Please join us Thursday, October 16th 5-8pm, for a fabulous party celebrating the new exhibit, new building, and all the good that is this part of the world!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Remember, the world is beautiful

 

Solo Exhibition by Rose Umerlik

3 Walker Contemporary, Kittery, ME

3walkercontemporary.com

 

On View Through December, 2025

 

 

Artist Statement for the Show:

 

To look at my artwork and see abstracted forms and a minimalist use of color, one might think this work is about gesture or the act of painting or impulse, but these layers and these lines and these forms are woven painstakingly from years of learning about my personal history, my humanness and the beauty of emotions.

 

As I paint, I engage in an extended series of decisions and revisions; tensions undulate on the painted surface, and the universal human forces of love, courage, play, insecurity or fear strengthen the forms struggling to find their place on the painted surface. Sometimes the forms hold each other, or gesture lovingly; sometimes their relationship is uncomfortable or uncertain; other times they strive for isolation. Each painting resolves as its own story or moment or feeling.

 

Through the act of creating and sharing my paintings, I am showing my deep respect for the beauty inherent in all of the emotions and the emotional struggles that are present in the collective human mind and heart. We are all complicated, thinking, feeling and profoundly connected in a beautiful way that can celebrate and heal our humanity. I hope this work resonates with you in whatever way is right for you.

 

 

“Remember, the world is beautiful

 

          … and

          I find that we are all here,

          holding each others’ hearts without even knowing it.

 

          We are not alone.

          Our humanity gives us each other.

 

          Our playfulness, our love, our sadness, our fears, our confidences,

          Our joy….

          they are all enmeshed in this shared life.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

-Rose Umerlik

  2025