Rosy Lamb

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location = Paris,France
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nationality = American
field = Painting, Sculpture
training = Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
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Rosy Lamb (born July 23, 1973 in Tamworth, New Hampshire) is an expatriate American sculptor and painter living in Paris, France. She graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and became the assistante d'atelier of Jean Cardot, a prominent French sculptor, before her work gained attention in its own right.

Life

Lamb was homeschooled by her parents, both artists, with her four siblings in New Hampshire until she entered the Academy, from which she graduated with concentrations in sculpture and painting. During her undergraduate years, she also attended the Harvard Extension School intermittently.

She left Philadelphia for France in 2001, dissatisfied with the Neo-Classicism dominant in American sculpture, and finding in the work of Jean Cardot an alternative aesthetic. That move served as a springboard for Lamb's own work and international career.

Art

Lamb's art traces three axes -- drawings, painting and sculpture -- which inevitably intersect. She draws in conté, charcoal and mixed media; she paints on linen or board, mixed media on plaster, or with watercolor; she sculpts in plaster, or bronze, or resin and mixed media on plaster.

Career

In Europe, she has shown in the Luxembourg Gardens, sponsored by the Sénat, or the French Senate; in the United States, she has had solo shows in Philadelphia, Boston and New Jersey.

She was awarded the George Coulin prize for sculpture by the Institut de France in 2002, and held an Artist in Residence fellowship at the Cité Internationale des Arts from 2001 to 2003.

External links

* [http://www.rosylamb.com/ Official website, comprehensive image database and biography]
* [http://www.theparisblog.com/2006/07/22/rosy-lamb-portrait-of-the-artist/ Lamb's Luxembourg show covered by The Paris Blog]
* [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Cardot French Wikipedia entry for Jean Cardot]