The Magic Hour, new works by Leah Rosenberg
July 30th from 7-10pm, open by apt. until Aug 13th

 

 

The Magic Hour

Life is like the crust of the earth or the rings of a tree. Our experiences and emotions accumulate in layers. Moments follow moments, days upon days. A rush of passion builds over the sweep of a familiar song, which came after a morning of disappointment, which blanketed a dream of pure joy. My work explores and expresses the idea that our experience literally piles up.

In cinematography, the magic hour (otherwise known as the golden hour) is the first and last hour of sunlight during the day, when a specific photographic effect is achieved with the quality of the light. It is considered the time when the Sun is near but above the horizon. This more recent body of work, The Magic Hour, being exhibited at Spare Room Projects takes this moment between sundown and darkness as a platform encourages reflection on the passage and structure of time.

 

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LEAH ROSENBERG: BIO
Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, but raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Rosenberg received her MFA in 2008 from the California College of the Arts and her BFA in Visual Arts from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2003. She is an inter-media artist whose bodies of work combine systems of accumulation and elements of layering to explore how our experiences, emotions, and memories build up over time. Her paintings, paint-based sculptures and cakes have been exhibited throughout the US and Canada. She is currently employed as the assistant pastry chef at the Blue Bottle Coffee rooftop garden café at SFMOMA, creating desserts based on artworks of rotating museum exhibitions.