Rosalind Tallmadge | Cloud Totems: Artist's Reception: Friday, April 17, 5-8pm
April 17 - May 30, 2026
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Possessing beauty and a luminous presence, Rosalind Tallmadge’s recent paintings alternatively excavate and add on layers of light-reflecting intervals with her use of silver and gold leaf and slices of mirrored mica. The mica, commonly found in igneous and metamorphic rock, offers a weighty counterpoint to the more delicate materials like glass beads and sequined fabric present in these compositions. The result is a shimmering organic beauty evocative of nature and the cosmos, presenting a feminine take on the historically male practice of formalism and abstraction.

Aside from the implicit politics of the medium, I want to create elusive, experiential paintings that activate the viewer’s body through their seductive light-based surfaces The pieces are meant to be organic, almost living beings that reveal themselves over time. They are both psychically interior and exterior, evoking degraded urban surfaces or worn rocks you would happen upon in nature.
- Rosalind Tallmadge 2026
 
Rosalind Tallmadge’s work has been widely exhibited in the United States and abroad including New York, Miami, Detroit, Chicago, Brussels and Seoul. Her work is included in multiple international private, public and corporate collections. Notable exhibitions include With Eyes Opened: Cranbrook Academy of Art since 1932, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI.  Tallmadge recently completed a large-scale site-specific commission for the Opus One Winery in Napa Valley, CA and a site-specific commission for Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI.
 
Tallmadge holds a BFA from Indiana University, Bloomington, IN and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI.  Awards and residencies include the Oxbow School of Art, the DNA Residency, Provincetown, MA and the Yale Summer School of Art, New Haven, CT.  A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Tallmadge currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.