Vanessa Rothe [NRA 2014]

First name: Vanessa ;
Middle name:  ;
Last name: Rothe ;

Member: Non-resident artist member ;
Begin: 2014 ;
End: n/a ;

Biography:

In addition to her editorial, curatorial and design work, Vanessa Françoise Rothe is a fine artist exhibiting the last 20 years alongside the Nations top artists in galleries, art clubs, as well as Museums. She is an official Artist Member of the famed Salmagundi Art Club New York, a Signature member of the American Impressionist Society and served as its Educational Director for 4 years.

Vanessa has had classical fine art training at Laguna College of Art and Design and has studied direct with professional artists. She was named one of the “Artists for a new century from the Bennington Center of the Arts in 2012 early on. Rothe began her art career with three successful solo exhibitions at Wendt Gallery in Laguna Beach, along with an impressive list of group shows including: Richard Schmid Fine Art Auction, The Laguna Beach Art Museum, the Annual American Impressionist Society Exhibitions, The California Museum of Fine Art, Artists for a New Century at The Bennington Center for the Arts, Galerie DDG and Galerie Prince de L’oeil in Paris, France, The Salmagundi Club New York, J. Willott Gallery, and California Art Club exhibitions. She has exhibited and sold her 3 works at Arcadida Contemporary during the Americans in Paris exhibition 2018. After exhibiting at Wendt Gallery for 4 years from 2003-2007 she then opened and currently owns Vanessa Rothe Fine Art Gallery at 418 Ocean Avenue in Laguna Beach, exhibiting alongside top International artists and and at many exhibitions and events worldwide. The VRFA Gallery is now celebrating its 10th year. She is founder of the ‘Americans in Paris’ wolrdwide Exhibitions and workshops , as well as Realism Without Borders art events and exhibitions.

Vanessa Françoise Rothe grew up in the artists colony of Laguna Beach, CA, the daughter to a well known German clothing designer to the Stars, Detlev Rothe, and her French mother Jacqueline Ricaud. She received top scholarships to study Business/Marketing and French Literature at the University of San Diego, University of CA, Irvine, and later studied Fine Art at the Laguna College of Art and Design receiving top honors throughout. In addition to traditional schooling, she has had the opportunity to study at fine art ateliers in France and Italy as well as directly with many professional contemporary painters.

Rothe has been fortunate to exhibit alongside the Nations most well known artists for over 18 years along with running her fine art gallery, acting as West Coast Editor for Fine Art Connoisseur magazine for 16 years and taking care of her family with two boys. She has had three successful solo exhibitions at Wendt Gallery in Laguna Beach, along with an impressive list of group shows at Wendt and others, including: Richard Schmid Fine Art Auction, The Laguna Beach Art Museum, The Salmagundi Club in New York City, Arcadia Contemporary in Los Angeles, Galerie Prince de l’Oeil in Paris, The California Museum of Fine Art, Artists for a New Century at The Bennington Center for the Arts, Gallerie DDG Paris, The Salamagundi Club New York, J. Willott Gallery, California Art Club exhibitions and the Annual American Impressionist Society Exhibitions where she is a Signature Member. After exhibiting at WENDT GALLERY in Laguna Beach for 4 years, she now shows currently at her own Fine Art Gallery at VRFA Gallery at 418 Ocean ave in Laguna Beach and curates Fine Art exhibitions for she and her artists worldwide.

Influenced by a blend of classical traditional representational art and Impressionist works by masters such as Sargent, Sorolla, Wendt, Payne, Manet, Cassatt, Casas, Repin and Suvorov as well as modern master friends such as Scott Burdick, Susan Lyon, Jeremy Lipking, Michelle Dunaway, and Ray Roberts, she takes the essence of a subject and captures its charm with the use of color, shadows, and light. The work is representational or realist as its base and then she adds thicker visable brush strokes and pleasing color combinations to form a realist yet slightly impressionistic style which her collectors admire. Her subjects include the beautiful landscapes of France, Switzerland and Italy, the allure of historic cities such as Paris and Venice, classic California seascapes with a fewe still life’s, as well as new figurative work.

​Rothe is honored to have been invited as a participating artist and writer to an important seminar in Venice Italy “The Alpine Fellowship” where she discussed current art, philosophy and technology with some of the top writers, art historians and critics, painters and poets of today, including Ian McEwan, John Burnside, Alan Lawson, Odd Nerdrum and Roger Scruton.

Rothe is proud to be sponsored by Savoir Faire, Sennelier, Isabey, Artfix, Raphael with Pierre Yann Guidetti. www.savoirfaire.com
and RayMar fine art panels by Emily and Catherine Raymar.

Vanessa Rothe is the Author/Artist to a new series of art instructional books published by the leader in art instructional books, Walter Foster Publishing entitled “An Art School Approach to Oils” which can be found at barnesandnoble.com, amazon.com and she teaches atelier and plein air workshops in California and Europe.

https://www.vanessarothefineart.com/

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