Ce Roser

Hans Uhlmann, Charmion von Wiegand, and Sari Dienes also served as other mentors for her vivid, lively, and daringly delicate work.

Abstract art focuses on what a person sees; i.e. color, shape, size, and scale, thus, it does not directly depict objects in the visible world.

[4] Roser's work exemplifies the idea that art is a bridge between the verbal and pre-verbal world, a blending of the reality and perception of life.

[5] Roser believes that the “communication of painting can express the architecture, landscape, aerial views, free associations, random choices and unexpected juxtapositions of perceptions and feelings that constitute life experience.”[6] Roser's abstraction and distinct style of purposefully using colors has been described as “suggesting a symbolic language of earth and mountain topography.”[7] That critique continues on to stress that her work is a great example of “perception shifts” and her abstraction is able to “engage the viewer through ambiguity.”[7] John Russell described her work as “something of the headlong imagery of Kandinsky's early ‘Improvisations’” and referred to her “recognizable images which come and go” with color that is “everywhere light, clear, clean and free.”[8] The use of expansive white space helps in her emphasis of crisp clean color which is used with distinct intention so much that Roser is regarded as “very good on the edges of her pictures, too, with plenty of action backed up into the corners.”[8] This increase in white space, praised by many critics, came about as a translation of the sunlight that she saw flickering on the Hudson River from her New York studio.

[9] Her colorful style and broad brush strokes “become abstract elements that float over the picture plane.”[9] The organic nature of her paintings reflect a process based on feeling and through the rhythm and underlying harmony, viewers are given a pleasurable experience for the eyes.

[15][16] Since its creation in 1971, WIA has obtained grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Exxon Corporation, Mobil Foundation, the Eastman Fund, and Consolidated Edison thus allowing its objective to be achieved.

[17] The works that were exhibited were selected by a committee composed of WIA members, including Pat Passlof, Ce Roser, Sylvia Sleigh, Linda Nochlin, Elizabeth C. Baker, and Laura Adler.

[18] Roser also exhibited at the East Hampton Guild Hall “Artist of the Region,” a show that sought to revel under-recognized talent.