mtn space is pleased to inaugurate its new Lake Worth Beach location and winter season with SHOCK OF SPRING, a solo exhibition by New York and Norway based artist Jason Rosenberg. Shock of Spring will be on view from Wednesday, January 7th through Sunday, February 8th. An opening reception will be held Wednesday, January 7th 5-8pm.
The presentation brings together new and recently developed wax resist works on paper. These process-based engagements are created within specific landscapes in Northern Norway/Sápmi and along the North Atlantic coast. Rosenberg’s practice, grounded in a materially attentive dialogue with place, approaches the natural world not as backdrop but as active collaborator.
Working with combining water based paints and pigments with material extracted from plants, flowers, roots, mushrooms, lichen, beeswax and soil, Rosenberg generates surfaces that appear simultaneously fragile and enduring, suspended between emergence and dissolution. Shock of Spring traces a shift in season and temperament: the works register thaw, return, and germination after prolonged darkness. Rather than offering picturesque vistas, they translate durational observation, weather, tides, growth cycles, into layered chromatic fields and bold mark-making that oscillate between abstraction and cellular organic formations. Shock of Spring situates Rosenberg’s materially driven, ecologically attuned practice within mtn space’s commitment to artists whose work is both deeply rooted and outward-looking. The exhibition invites viewers into a space of quiet attention, where color, translucence, and form collectively propose another way of sensing and moving through seasons.
Jason Rosenberg (b. 1974) is an artist living and working between New York City and Norway/Sápmi. His practice is grounded in meditative, process-oriented responses to the natural world, often realized through place-based works that incorporate locally gathered, plant-derived pigments and other materials from the environments in which he works.
Rosenberg studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 1997. Over the past two decades he has exhibited widely, including solo and group projects in Norway, the United States, and Europe, with presentations at venues such as Grünerløkka Kunsthall (Oslo), Smack Mellon (Brooklyn), PS1 Contemporary Art Center (New York), Worcester Art Museum, 356 Mission (Los Angeles), White Columns (New York), and international platforms in Colombia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, and Spain. His work has been the subject of critical writing and features in publications including The New York Times and T Magazine.