David passed away in 2014, leaving behind a mixture of love and sorrow, intermingled, like pigments trapped in resin. Since his cancer diagnosis in 2008, his pain and paint overlapped to create over two hundred unique pieces of art at the frontier between painting and sculpture. All along, he emphasized that his focus was on the process of creation, the skins behind a final piece of art. Understanding the piece by looking at its final rendering would be as hazardous as trying to decipher a film by its closing sequence. David left us clues here and there, pieces of a puzzle to be reconstructed.

During the past few years, we started reconstructing that puzzle. Here, for the first time, you will find the skins of over two hundred pieces created at The Memeway. This compilation of David’s work will allow you to travel back in time and appreciate the creative process that drove David through his later years.

This is just the beginning; this website is intended as a first draft. To improve it, we need your help. Over the years, David posted thousands of comments on his Facebook page, including information on the titles of various pieces, their dimensions, the media used, and many other stories on their origin and life. For instance, here are all of David’s posts on Battle Cry (#49). To collect this information, we invite all his Facebook friends to be part of a unique collaborative curation process. With these additional pieces of the puzzle, we promise you a new version of this site that will allow all of us to dive even deeper into the art of David Grant Rosen.

Madeline Leavy-Rosen, Michaela Rosen, Jonathan Rosen and Marc Fardin