Iowa Heritage Digital Collections
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Women With Tomatoes

Women With Tomatoes

Title

Women With Tomatoes

Description

Wendy Rolfe studied at Parsons School of Design in New York and Le Atelier DEtampe in Paris. She produced art in New York City for several years before moving to Iowa. Along with other demands, the artist maintains a daily schedule in her studio, set on 600 acres near Dubuque.
Wendy Rolfe creates with a unique visual vocabulary and creative juxtapositions. After 9/11, she entered a new period in which her works became more prayerful in context and essence. Although her feminine mythic symbols continue, she is working with more urgency and clearly spiritual themes.<br>Influenced by primitive tinwork from New Mexico (1840-1940), imaginative work enriched with decorative elements and innocence of spirit, Rolfe uses more tin, decoupage, wire and beads, painted glass, even candles in her wall collages. Seeing creation as both feminine and masculine, she explores spiritual hidden selves and vast landscapes of the soul, and the softening aspects, which persist despite what she sees as a time fraught with harsh, moralistic appeals to God, prayers linked to destruction, war, and despair. Rolfe presents prolific and personal symbols, which, she insists, must be processed through each viewers own life experiences and attitudes.

Creator

Rolfe, Wendy

Publisher

University of Iowa. School of Art and Art History

Date

2006-05-05

Rights

Digital collection © The University of Iowa. All works are copyright the individual artist.

Relation

The Daily Palette Digital Collection
Visual Arts
http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=412

Format

17
9
mixed media

Type

Still image
Mixed media

Identifier

05052006.jpg
183409339
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/