A Painted Memoir – Works by Dyan Rosenberg

A Painted Memoir – Works by Dyan Rosenberg
Curated By Monique Ford
March 31 – April 18, 2025
Opening Reception: Sunday, April 6, 2025 1-3PM

Artist Statement
My innate sense of form and color guides me in all of my artistic creations. Ic onsider myself a painter, but I also work as a sculptor in wood, clay, paper, fiber, and in architecture. My painting process is free and spontaneous. I am fluid and comfortable moving from strong graphic shapes and patterns ot loose expressionistic lines and forms. My work ranges from abstract to figurative, all saturated with color.
I see things through my own prism. Art is my way of speaking. No matter the medium, I exist as an artist, to create, live, and breathe art. My success as an artist and businesswoman is based on my own evolution and the loyal following of my friends and patrons who have supported me through all my creative endeavors over the years.

Image Credits (from right to left): Dyan Rosenberg – “Home Coming” (2012), “Still Life With Peaches” (2000), “Mother’s Dishes” (1994).

About Dyan
Dyan Rosenberg is a Westchester, NY based artist born in the Bronx. She Grew up in Scarsdale and raised her family in Rye Brook, NY. She currently resides and has her studio in North Salem, NY in a home she designed and built.

In the 1960s, while raising a family, creating and exhibiting her paintings, Dyan simultaneously established Something Special, a needlepoint design business. Something Special operated for 11 years out of Dyan’s home-based studio where she mentored high school artists that helped to grow her boutique, niche brand of needlepoint handbags, footstools and rugs, which directly served the fashionable women and savvy needlepoint shops in the Tri State area.

While painting and showing her work through Westchester galleries and selling to private collectors, Dyan’s vision of art grew to include wearable sculptural knitted and crocheted clothing. By designing and hand-crafting a line of coats and jackets and hats along with thehiring of local Westchester artisan women, she created a collection of clothing that was sold through her studio, retail stores and art galleries in Westchester, New York City and New Jersey.

Dyan’s practiced personal style of color and form developed into an even broader vision. The synthesis of her painting and fiber art forays led to the formation of Roseclyff Design/Build, a Westchester based firm, established circa 1981 in Rye, NY. Dyan specialized in architectural design, project management and a division of custom built furniture and interior design. Dyan’s loyal patrons employed her to design/build their homes and interiors. Her most recent collection features furniture created from fallen white birch logs that she sells directly from her studio.

Dyan was the owner of five art galleries, four in Westchester and one in Greenwich, CT, where she created a showcase for other Westchester artists and artisans to sell their work. She is also deeply involved in the art community of Westchester, having served no the Boards of the Rye Art Center and the Hammond Museum in North Salem and was more recently a Trustee at the Katonah Museum of Art. She has served three terms as the President of the Katonah Museum of Art Artists’ Association and has been a continuing member and supporter of ArtsWestchester since the 1960s.