Roseline Delisle

Roseline Delisle is a well-known ceramics artist.

Delisle was born in 1952 in Rimouski, Quebec, and attended the Institute of Applied Arts in Montreal, Quebec, in 1969. After graduating in 1973, Delisle worked as an apprentive under Enid Les Gros until 1977. In 1978, she moved south and started her first solo studio in Venice, California. Delisle resided and maintained a studio practice in Santa Monica, California, with her husband, painter Bruce Cohen, and their daughter. Delisle died in 2003 in Santa Monica.

Delisle is known in the ceramics community for her large-scale vessel forms, wheel thrown in sections, and banded with colored slips. Her older works were constructed from porcelain thrown sections fused together in the kiln, however her more contemporary works are created from earthenware, and threaded on a metal rod, secured to a weighted base for stability.

Exhibitions

Contemporary Ceramics: Nine Artists, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California, June 2000Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramcs 1950-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2000

Bibliography

Smith, Penny, "Rosaline Delisle, Like A Dancer" Ceramics: Art and Perception, no. 22, 2001, pp 26-32