VeneKlasen, London presents Ce Roser: Running with the Sun, Works 1961–2014, an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by the centenarian, New York-based artist (b. 1925, Philadelphia). Running with the Sun is Roser’s first solo exhibition outside the United States in over six decades, and her first in Europe, tracing her remarkable contribution to the language of abstract painting over more than five decades.
The exhibition brings together works that exemplify the distinctive visual vocabulary Roser began to develop after settling in New York in the 1950s. By then, she had lived across Asia and Europe–spending formative years in China, India, Pakistan, Thailand and the Philippines, before studying in Berlin at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste under Hans Uhlmann several years after the Second World War. These unusually expansive cultural and artistic experiences became the foundation of a painterly practice that feels at once contemporary and timeless, a synthesis of diverse visual traditions that forms a language entirely the artist's own. Roser's paintings are built from a combination of perception and invention.