• Atelier School of Classical Realism, Oakland, CA 2003-2006
• Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA 2001 BF

Illustration with an emphasis in Fine Art, Computer and Photography

• Gamblin Oil Paint, Gold Leaf, Pencil and Charcoal
  
• Size: 5x7" to 4x4'

	2012	Schaefer Portrait Challenge, statewide juried competition
	2011	Ninth Annual Seattle Erotic Arts Festival, Seattle, worldwide juried competition
	2011	East Hawaiian Cultural Center Spring Show, Hilo
	2011 and continuing	Work shown at Cedar Street Gallery, Honolulu
	2011 and continuing	Work shown at Volcano Garden Arts, Volcano
	2011 and continuing	Work shown at The One Gallery, Hilo
	2010	Solo show at the Center for Sexual Culture, SF
	2010	Group show at the Sub-Culture Gallery, SF
	2010	Group show at the Wailoa Center Gallery, Hilo
	2010 and continuing	Permanent collection at the Pahoa Museum, Pahoa
	2009	Solo show at the Pahoa Museum, Pahoa
	2008 thru 2011	Group show at the East Hawaiian Cultural Center, Hilo
	2008 and 2009	Group show with the Abled Hawaii Artists, Hilo
	2004	Group show at Route One Gallery, Point Reyes
	2003	Ether: A Collective of Art and Music, Epic Arts, Berkeley
	2003	A Moment's Notice: An Art Collective of Our Times, SF
	2003 and continuing	Permanent Collection at Epic Arts, Berkeley
	2002 and 2004	The Muse: A Celebration in Art and Music, Berkeley
	2001	Sutter Gallery Solo Show, SF
	2001	Legion of Honor: Toulouse-Lautrec Exhibition, SF
	2000 and 2001	Academy of Art University Spring Show, SF
	2000	Mural Consigned in Guatemala for the New Millennium
	2000	Vial Magazine Artist Spotlight

Rose Adare took up her first oil paints when she was 7 years old. By 23, Rose found herself in London on a six month excursion studying human anatomy. Inspired by Waterhouse, Millais, and the sensual portraiture of John Singer Sargent, she fell in love with the great masters, from Caravaggio's blushing skin tones, to Titian's emphasis on physique.

 

Enrolling at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, Rose earned her Bachelors degree. Under the tutelage of Bill Mahn she learned the depths of layering and the intricate use of shadow play, while Bill Sanchez taught her the dynamic and inherently expressive lines of simple structure and their playfulness.

 

Shortly thereafter, she attended the Atelier School of Classical Realism in Berkeley for three years on a full scholarship. At the Atelier she studied under David Hardy who, Rose would gauge, "is the best color theorists in America," going beyond color theory to explore the artistic composition of reality, from the flushing reds of the neck to the subtle luminosity of a moistened lip.

 

Rose began her Fine Art career as The Muse Studio, founding the annual Muse Showcase: A Celebration in Art and Music, in Berkeley, CA. Expanding throughout the Bay Area, Rose took on two solo shows, the first at the Sutter Gallery in San Francisco followed by another at Epic Arts in Berkeley. Of note, Rose had the honor of participating in a collective show at the Legion of Honor's fine art museum in SF, for a Toulouse-Lautrec Perspective.

 

After a devastating injury in 2005, Rose spent the following years unable to paint. Bed-ridden off and on for three years, she studied Da Vinci's notes, Bridgeman's anatomy, Zorn's lighting, Klimpt's elegance, and Fechin's unique ability to breath life and motion into his portraits, all the while painting in her imagination as she drew with a pencil taped to her fingers.

 

In 2009, after a long and painful reprieve, she was finally able to pick up her brush, as such these paintings are the first overtures of her new courtship with light and color.

Using corsetry as a symbol of restraint and revolution, her current portraits explore the sensual and erotic history of the bohemian underground while revisiting the classical styles she's adored since her childhood. Recruiting prominent artistic activists as her models, her growing collection of portraits will be featured in a non-fiction history titled La Boheme Nouveau (pending late 2012).

 

As an advocate of sensual diversity, Rose adores the subtle androgyny of the human experience both on and off the canvas, though, as always, her art remains her one true fetish.