Florida Artists Group

Dawn's Bio:

At a young age, Dawn began to draw in California where she was born and raised. She enrolled in private oil painting classes in middle school and throughout high school she attended a commercial arts high school. Dawn continued to study art in Chicago at the American Academy of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. After art school, she moved to Orlando where she became a Walt Disney World Sculptor. In 1989, she opened a Scenic Design company with her life partner. For the last ten years, Dawn has concentrated on her fine art full time. Dawn's art is collected throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. 

Artist Statement:

Dawn Rosendahl transforms books into lasting sculptures, resurrecting them as they become obsolete in this age of New Media. She carves books like blocks of wood, transforming them into surrealistic works of art. The altered books tell new stories; continents, countries, and highways in an atlas shift into another world; history books are rewritten with the stories they tell; and words in an encyclopedia are shifted and layered into new meaning.

Education:
American Academy of Art,   AA   Chicago, Illinois, 1980
Art Institute of Chicago,  Chicago, Illinois 1985

Exhibitions:

Selected Solo Shows:

"The Next Chapter"  Orlando Public Library, Orlando, FL 2012
La Vida Gallery, Orlando FL 2009
Skin Deep,  Gallery Q@ The Center, Orlando FL 2008
Heavenly Gay Bodies,  Gallery Q@ The Center, Orlando FL 2007
Solo Show at Stonewall Library and Archives,  Ft. Lauderdale, FL 2007
Solo Show at Storks,  Ft. Lauderdale, FL 2007

Selected Group Exhibitions:

From Start to Finish-Florida Sculptors Guild exhibition, The Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens,              Winter Park, FL June-July 2013
Women’s Works 2013, Northwest Area Arts Council, Woodstock, IL, Feb-March 2013
Second Annual Our Earth Exhibition, Flow Art Space, Saint Paul, MN, April-May 2013
"3rd Annual Juried Exhibition" Florida Museum For Women Artist, Deland FL, November 2012
61st Annual All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition    
              Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL, July 2012
7th Annual Juried Art Exhibition - Florida: New Visions, Innovations in Expression  
              The Elliott Museum, Stuart, FL, February 2012
The Art of Music    Flow Art Space, Minneapolis, MN, February 2012
7th Annual Artist Registry Members Juried Exhibit     
              Gallery at Avalon Island, Orlando FL, January 2012
Florida Biennial VI     Museum of Florida Art, DeLand, FL, November 2011
2nd Annual Judith Ryan Williams Nature & Wildlife Art Exhibition    St. Augustine FL, July 2011
 4th Annual Fall In Furniture Love     Scan Design, Orlando FL, March 2011
Our Tribes     Four person show, Gallery Q, Orlando FL, March 2010
Desire .10    Logsdon 1909 Gallery, Chicago IL, February 2010
ArtExplosion 10     Arts United, Ft. Lauderdale FL 2010
Our Stories- GLBT History Thru Art    Gallery Q, Orlando FL, October 2009
No Ordinary Love    Two-woman show, Gallery Q, Orlando, FL 2009
The Art of Chrome & Leather VI    Museum Of Florida Art, De Land, FL 2009
Behind The Rainbow    Gallery Q, Orlando, FL 2009
Nude Nite 2009    Orlando, FL 2009
Art Undressed   SOHO Studios, Miami FL 2008
NudeNite    Orlando FL 2008
Feminati    City Arts Factory, Orlando FL 2007-2008
Queer Arts Collective Group Show    Gallery Metro, Orlando FL 2007-2008
Red Ribbon for the Children    Fort Lauderdale Art Museum 2007
Family Three-Person Show    Fine Line Gallery, Atlanta, GA 2007
Black &White    Gallery Q, Orlando FL 2007
Strong Waves    Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA 2007
ArtExplosion 2007    ArtServe Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 2007
Journeys Comma Gallery, Orlando, FL 2007
Seasons of Light    Gallery Q, Orlando, Florida, 2006
Bacchanalia    Gallery Q, Orlando, Florida, 2006
Art Explosion    Arts United Ft Lauderdale, Florida, 2006
Las Olas Art Fair    Ft. Lauderdale, FL 2003
Lake Mary Heathrow    Lake Mary, FL 2003
Maitland Chamber Spring Festival    Maitland, FL 2003
Another Dimension    Ariel Gallery, New York City, NY, 1990
Randolph Street Gallery    Chicago, IL 1984
ARC Gallery/Raw Space    Chicago, IL 1983
Objects Gallery, Chicago, IL 1983
Whitehead Studios, Chicago, IL 1983

Awards:

United Arts Artist Development Grant 2013
2nd Place in the 7th Annual Juried Art Exhibition-Florida:
      New Visions, Innovations in Expression, The Elliott Museum 2012
Honorable Mention in the Florida Biennial VI  Museum of Florida Art 2011
1st place in the Scan Design 4th Annual Fall In Furniture Love Art Show, Orlando FL, March 2011
2nd Place, in "Seasons of Lights" Gallery Q, Orlando, Florida December 2006
Honorable Mention in  Behind The Rainbow, Gallery Q, December 2008, Orlando, FL

Publications:

Watermark. Issue 15.11 May 29-June 12, 2008    Review of "Skin Deep".
Watermark, Issue 14.10 May 17-30, 2007     Review of "Heavenly Gay Bodies"
411 Magazine, Volume 9/ Issue 9 February 26, 2009 "A Decade Of Art Without Taboo"
Orlando Arts Magazine, Jan-Feb issue, Cover and inside article

Affiliations:

Artist-In-Action at the Maitland Art & History Museums, Maitland, FL 2012
Arts United, South FL, Member 2006
ArtistRegistry member 2012