Yellow Peril Gallery is pleased to present Stitching Mona and Manuscript:Word Drawings, two distinct exhibits by Jessica Deane Rosner, featuring an “intensely personal” installation about her mother’s state of mind and 13 narrative drawings about an unexpected crisis.

Stitching Mona is an homage to Jessica Deane Rosner’s mother, Mona Lenore Rosner (née: Udell). The ambitious installation – three years in the making – is the artist putting her mother’s words, sketches, crafts, dreams and thoughts, out into the world. “The installation will reveal the complexities and contradictions within her personality to exist side by side with a little help from me,” notes Rosner. “It will show some of the many sides of the person my mother used to be, before dementia took hold of her brain.”

In the rear gallery space, Manuscript:Word Drawings will illustrate the story and events that have altered Rosner’s life as they unfolded in real-time. “The drawings are a narrative version that allowed me to express what I felt during that time. The final three drawings are the entire story written in code that also appears in some of the other drawings,” she explains. “The exhibit opens just a little over one year after what happened, happened.”

According to Rosner, both parts of this exhibition are “intensely personal,” as is all of her work. “But the personal is universal as it represents daily thoughts and struggles we all have when dealing with issues ranging from family feuds to unrealized hopes and dreams to unexpected blows that arise in nearly every life,” she underscores. “We are all in this together.”
The opening reception for Stitching Mona and Manuscript:Word Drawings is Saturday, October 1, from 6PM – 9PM. The exhibition will conclude Saturday, November 12. This is Rosner’s first solo exhibition at Yellow Peril. Previously, she presented work with Yellow Peril at New Bedford Art Museum, Jamestown Arts Center and SCOPE Miami Beach 2014.