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| Sister Adele Rowland, O.P. |
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Nomination:
For her role as American Photographer
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
The goal of my counterpoint imagery is to evoke for viewers some of the mystery and joy of life.
In my art, this challenge is met by a discriminating fracturing of the primary image. The integrity of the final montage ensues from the genuine relationship developed between the two components, to form a living entity.
This process is a kind of “painting” with film, and in this regard what inscape was for Gerard Manley Hopkins, and epiphany for James Joyce, my montaging is for me.
My goal is achieved when these Counterpoint Images make visually surprising statements about the complex nature of reality, develop in the viewer fresh perceptions, and, not infrequently, reawaken an awareness of the dimension of the divine.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in Massachusetts, Eugenia Rowland lived on Army posts on the East and West Coasts and in Hawaii. After attending Carnegie Mellon and the University of Hawaii, she received two degrees from the University of Southern California, and was, for a number of years, an English professor at California State University at Fresno. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1949.
Returning from Europe in 1950, she entered the San Rafael Dominican Convent and served on the faculty of the Dominican College where her fields included humanities and English literature. Concurrently Sister Adele Rowland enjoyed studying black and white photography with Ansel Adams, Ruth Bernhard and Jerry Uelsmann. Her own interest was, however, in color, especially with the potentials of color photomontage as a fine art — an area in which she has been a pioneer.
Her Counterpoint Imagery have been exhibited throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia, and Sister has won awards in the United States, France and Sweden. Her art may be found in hundreds of collections across the world, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Paris Bibliothèque Nationale, the Washington, D.C. Library of Congress, and China’s Nanjing Museum.
She was named Resident Artist at Dominican University of California where she continues to create and show her Counterpoint Imagery.
To see more of Sister Adele’s art, please visit: www.sisteradele.com
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