2021..Ivan Amato, An Artful Archeology of National

.........Defense, Convergence II: The Art Collection

.........of the National Academy of Sciences,

.........pp. 70-71.

2021..Working on the Formations Series During

........ the Pandemic, Explore The Corona Virus

.........Pandemic Creative Responses Archive,

.........Issues in Science and Technology, June 2.

2015...JD Talasek, Imagining the Unimaginable:

..........Deep Time Through the Lens of Art,

..........Imagining Deep Time Exhibition Catalog,

..........National Academy of Sciences, pp. 7, 17.

2014...Alana Quinn, JD Talasek,

..........Imagining Deep Time, Issues in Science and

..........Technology, Fall, Vol. XXXI, No. 1, p. 70.

2014...Helen Thompson, What Does "Deep Time"

..........Mean to You?, Smithsonian Magazine,

..........September 9.

2008 - Present....Biography listed in Marquis

..........Who's Who In American Art.

2008...Julianne Carroll, rock solid, for artist

..........Rosalie Lang, beauty is all in the details,

..........The Mercury News, January 3.

2007...Alastair Dallas, Unusual Art at the Tait

..........Museum, Los Gatos Times Observer, June 6.

1998...Mary Ann Cook, Main Street,

..........Los Gatos Weekly-Times, Aug 26, p. 4.

1998...Stacey Trevenon, Courtyard is destination

..........point, Half Moon Bay Review, November 25,

..........p. 8A.

1991...Bob Aldrich, Our Town, Los Gatos Weekly-

..........Times, February 6, p. 4.

1991...Bob Aldrich, Accessible art, Lang's way,

..........Los Gatos Weekly-Times, February 20, p. 26.

1990...Marilyn Moyle, Contrast sparks interest at

..........the Pence, architecture reigns at Davis Art

..........Center, The Davis Enterprise, March 22, p. 7.

1982...Stanford art exhibit, Peninsula Times

..........Tribune, April 7, p. C10.

1982...Rosalie Lang paintings at Bechtel, Campus

..........Report, April 7, p. 22.

1976...Arts Magazine, January, pp. 28-29.

1974...2 Exhibits Greet '74 at State Museum,

..........Sunday Times Advertiser, Trenton, NJ,

..........January 6, p. 14.

1974...Abstract Painters Exhibit at Museum,

..........Hackettstown NJ Star Gazette,

..........January 10, p. 11.

1974...State exhibits local artist's work,

..........The Somerset Spectator, January 24, p. 5.

1973...Doris E. Brown, Rocks inspire earth-colored

..........abstracts, The Home News,

..........New Brunswick, NJ, November 16, p. C18.

Imagining the Unimaginable : Deep Time Through the Lens of Art

J.D. Talasek

The way that art making involves a process of understanding – comprehending the observed – is illustrated in the artwork of California painter Rosalie Lang. Lang’s paintings draw inspiration from the aesthetic of rocks (Plates 12 and 13) photographed along the Pescadero, CA coastal areas. She has said, “I don’t know a rock until I paint it” underscoring the importance of mark making in understanding and focusing observation.

In the artist’s words,

“In my opinion, the process of visually deciphering the unique qualities of rock formations and then painting them has given me a deeper understanding of their ‘essence’—where they came from and how they evolved over time...”[13]

The realism of Lang’s paintings of intricate rock surfaces, combined with the absence of horizon or other cues to scale, causes the viewer’s perception to oscillate between reality and abstraction. One of art’s great contributions is its ability to challenge our perceptions or to make us look differently at what we think we know.

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