Biography and CV
Two Artists (detail) 2018
Rosemary Sloggatt was born in Munich, Germany in 1959, the youngest child of a military family. She grew up in Asheville, North Carolina. The city’s thriving arts community offered stimulation as she began to draw and paint the world around her.
The artist attended the North Carolina School of the Arts as one of seven students accepted into the Visual Arts program in 1975. An intensive 2-year immersion into the visual arts followed. The opportunity to be engaged in art all day and often in the open studios in the evening confirmed her commitment to be an artist.
Rosemary studied Fine Art at Parsons School of Design and Otis Art Institute, living in both Los Angeles and New York. During her time in New York City she worked as a page in the Art, Prints, and Photographs Division of the New York Public Research Library. Access to such material as the Gutenberg Bible, early Warhol folios, Japanese pillow books and Audubon’s hand-tinted Birds of America, expanded her vision of the scope and meaning of art.
Following undergraduate studies she enrolled at Bank Street College, completing a Master’s Degree in Museum Education. While pursuing a ten-year museum career, she married and started a family. She joined the Great Neck Public Schools in 1995 and has taught art there for more than 25 years.
The time constraints imposed by motherhood and teaching made the book format ideal as a way to continue to make art. Her Japanese-style books – designed to be interrelated, depending on the number of pages seen at a time – were exhibited in Islip Art Museum’s The Art of the Book juried exhibition in 1991. Her print work on the subject on family, ‘Trinity’ was included in the museum’s exhibit All in the Family in 2010.
Rosemary began work on her Fairy Tale series during a mono-print workshop in Philadelphia with printmaker, Christine Stoughton. 'Rapunzel Writes a Letter' is a series of prints reflecting on how Rapunzel might have spent her time in the tower. As part of this exploration she created work based on The Wizard of Oz, Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood and Portraits of a Witch. ‘Little Red Riding Hood, A Cartography’ was included in Islip Art Museum’s New York Bound: International Book Arts Biennial in 2013.
In 2016 she exhibited Ogre Vases at the Bay Shore/Brightwaters Public Library. Based on a royal family of ogres, the sculptures are meant to be handled and opened. Two of the works, 'Pan' and 'Dora,' were selected for Private Viewing: For Your Eyes Only at the Islip Art Museum in 2016.
In November 2016 Rosemary mounted a solo exhibition, Growing Up, in the gallery of the East Islip Public Library. The exhibit included 42 works, created over a two-year period: paintings, prints, and shadow boxes, based on family photographs from her childhood. The artist used traditional painting techniques to interpret the family images. The paintings reflect both the photographic processes prevalent at the time the photos were taken and the subsequent aging of the pictures, complete with fingerprints, creases and stains.
Many of the images in the Growing Up series were of children. Rosemary’s subsequent work expands on the theme, reflecting her experiences – personal and professional – with young children. This work was exhibited in a solo exhibition, Among Children, in the gallery of the East Islip Public Library in November of 2018.
EDUCATION: Bank Street College of Education
Master’s Degree, Museum Education, 1988
Parsons School of Design
Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1984
Otis Institute, College of Art and Design
Fine Arts Major, 1981
North Carolina School of the Arts
High School Diploma, 1977
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
A Book About Death 10th Anniversary Exhibition
Islip Art Museum
September 2019
Collaborations
with Constance Sloggatt Wolf
Islip Art Museum
June 2019
Piebald Patches, Juried Members Exhibition
Museum of Contemporary Art, Long Island
July 2019
Time, Juried Exhibition
STAC Mills Pond Gallery
May 2019
59th Long Island Artists Exhibition
Art League of Long Island
January 2019
Winners Showcase
STAC Mills Pond Gallery
January 2019
Among Children, Solo Exhibition
East Islip Public Library
November 2018
The BIG Picture
Art League of Long Island
May 2018
Spring Migration
Second Avenue Firehouse Gallery
April 2018
Something Blue
The Art Guild at Elderfields Preserve
March 2018
Face and Figure
The Art Guild at Elderfields Preserve
September 2017
Growing Up, Solo Exhibition
East Islip Public Library
November 2016
Private Viewing: For Your Eyes Only
Islip Art Museum, April 2016
New York Bound: International Book Arts Biennial
Islip Art Museum, 2013
All in the Family
Islip Art Museum, 2010
The Art of the Book
Islip Art Museum, 1991
COLLECTIONS:
Private Collection, Thousand Oaks, CA
Private Collection, Bay Shore, NY
Private Collection, Sayville, NY
Private Collection, Jersey Heights, NJ
Private Collection, San Francisco, CA
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS:
STAC Arts Council, Members Show, Winner, 2018
National Association of Women Artists Induction, 2017
Long Island Arts Alliance ‘Artist of the Month’ November 2017
PRESS:
Art Teacher Accepted into National Association
Great Neck Record, Nov. 8, 2017
Creativity Abounds at STAC Member Showcase
The Times of Smithtown, Heidi Sutton, Nov. 2, 2017
Printed Books Are Alive and Sometimes Weird
New York Times, Aileen Jacobsen, Nov. 17, 2013
New York Bound, Islip Art Museum
Berkshire Fine Arts, Jay Schuck, Nov. 26, 2013