ROSE POPPER
Buffalo, New York
Rose Popper
Sculptor in stone, bronze and clay. Exploring nature, form and transformation through sculpture.
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MarbleBronzeAlabasterLimestoneSteatiteClay
MarbleBronzeAlabasterLimestoneSteatiteClay
Award winning sculptor and longtime member of the Buffalo Society of Artists
About the Artist
A Life Carved in Stone
Rose Popper was born in Buffalo, New York and now resides in Pendleton, a suburb of Buffalo. Rose Popper is an award-winning Buffalo artist and educator and longtime member of the Buffalo Society of Artists.
She received her Master’s Degree from the State University of New York at Albany and also studied at the University of Notre Dame, the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Colorado at Boulder. She received her BFA from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and Canada and has been included in national art exhibitions. Regionally, she exhibited her sculptures in numerous galleries including the Schweinfurth Art Center, Thousand Islands Art Center, Cooperstown National Exhibitions, Castellani Art Museum, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Albright-Knox Member’s Gallery, Hallwalls, Carnegie Art Center and the Kenan Center. Her work is included in numerous private collections. Popper’s work is included in the permanent collection of the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY.
Popper taught art at both the elementary and secondary levels in public
schools in Portage, Indiana and in Buffalo, New York. After teaching over 22 years in the Buffalo Public Schools, she retired in 2010. She was also a free-lance prototype sculptor for Fisher-Price Toys in East Aurora, New York from 1988 to 1991 and worked as an Artist-in-Residence at Artpark, Lewiston, NY.
As an accomplished sculptor, Popper primarily carves in stone and also works in clay. Many of her sculptures are cast in bronze.
Popper’s sculptures are derived from her close observations of nature, exploring shapes, lines and textures, whether in flux, vibrating, or motionless. She strives to seize a stilled-metamorphosis, capturing the form changing from one shape or structure into another, prolonging the process at the moment of transformation.
“I strive to seize a stilled-metamorphosis, capturing the form changing from one shape or structure into another, prolonging the process at the moment of transformation.”
Selected Works
The Art of Sculptures
A selection of sculpture exploring form, movement and transformation across marble, bronze, alabaster and clay.
Three Point Perspective
1978 · Steatite
Enveloping Form
1980 · Marble
Circular Form, Expanding
1980 · Bronze
Archaic Form
1981 · Alabaster
Spiraling Movement
1983 · Limestone
Flux
1984 · Marble
Convergence
1985 · Marble
Recurring Dream
1991 · Alabaster and granite
Plume
1995 · Marble and granite
Emergence
2012 · Bronze and concrete
Evolution I
2016 · Gold bronze
Fluxion
2017 · Raspberry alabaster
Unfoldment II
2019 · Red bronze
Inner Space
2020 · Alabaster
Introduction
Rose Popper was selected in 2021 from among other Buffalo Society of Artists and other
Western NY Artists to be interviewed and videotaped for inclusion in The Buffalo Society of
Artists Video Archive Project in collaboration with the Burchfield Penney Art Center. The
project, which began in 2009, is intended to ensure that the artists’ voices and their work will be
appreciated for generations to come. These videos are a permanent resource for future
historical, educational and cultural endeavors
Watch the Work Take Shape
A short film on process, material and the instant a block of stone or a cast of bronze finds its final form.
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