Artist Statement:
I started writing on cloth in 2012. I wanted to use words in my art in a different way. I also wanted to create something a little less formal than a drawing. I started to buy and collect doilies and handkerchiefs I found in junk shops and yard sales. 

For the most part I write excerpts from my personal diaries, but I use words my mother said and wrote when she was suffering the effects of dementia. 

I find stitching to be more social than drawing. I can stitch when I sit with my husband, and take work on an airplane or train when I travel. Though it seems an old fashioned activity, the words I write with thread are a little edgy. I like the tension between what appears to be sweet and traditional, and the  feelings behind the text tell a contemporary and often less benign story. 

Bio:
Jessica Deane Rosner holds a B.F.A. from the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. Rosner has exhibited nationally in museums and galleries including Dorsky, David Winton Bell Gallery, and 5 Traverse, The R.I.S.D. Museum of Art, and McKenzie Fine Art. Her work is in public and private collections including the R.I.S.D. Museum, Smith College, and Miami University, Miami, Fl. Rosner’s works on paper are in the flat file collections of Pierogi, NY, and are currently represented by McKenzie Fine Art, NYC. She was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, NH in 1999, and at V.C.C.A. in 2012, and 2014, and 2025. Her studio is in Cranston, RI, where she lives with her husband and has recently rescued a dog named Boo.