Jim Rose

Jim Rose constructed handmade steel furniture, objects, and sculpture that were primarily made with steel found in scrap yards across the Midwest. Rose has worked on multiple bodies of work including Shaker inspired pieces, works motivated by the quilts of Gee’s Bend, and early Chinese furnishings.

His work is in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC), Racine Art Museum (WI), Mesa Contemporary Arts (AZ), Museum of Arts and Design (NY), John Michael Kohler Arts Center (WI), Kohler Co. (WI), Milwaukee Art Museum (WI), and Carnegie Museum of Art (PA), among others. His work has been featured in American Craft Magazine and Door County Living. He is represented by Gallery Victor Armendariz, Tory Folliard Gallery, Edgewood Orchard Gallery, Pagoda Red, and Society for Contemporary Craft. Rose earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago.