Rozita Fogelman

Rozita Fogelman (born June 28, 1964) is an American conceptual artist with a particular interest in the modern study of healing arts. Much of her work consists of abstract representational often triggered by an experimental use of a single hue or form.

Born in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, then the Soviet Union, Rozita was 11 when her family's emigration application was granted in 1975, enabling them to start a new life in Israel. After attending Avni Art Institute in Tel Aviv and studying art and design, Rozita obtained her first design job in 1991 at Schocken local newspaper. She worked as an art director for Green publication, Public Magazine, adverting agencies and other publications in Tel Aviv. In 1998, she moved to the US and attended California State University East Bay majored in Graphic Art, Communication, and Multimedia.

Personal Interests
Visual story telling — "A story is 'holy,' and it is used as medicine. The story is not told to lift you up, to make you feel better, or to entertain you, although all those things can be true. The story is meant to take the spirit into a descent to find something that is lost or missing and to bring it back to consciousness again." Jungian storyteller Clarissa Pinkola Estes, influenced by the Curanderisma healing tradition from Mexico and Central America.

Philosophy of Art
by Rozita Fogelman

The artist is a philosopher.
The artist is not a craftsman.
The artist is not a synthetic machine.
The artist is not an artifact maker.
The artist is a witchdoctor.
The artist is the thinker.
The artist is a healer.
The artist is the thinker.
Art is not for recreation.
Art is not for decoration.
Art is not about highlighting objects,
or repetition of the previous.
Art is the idea or a suggestion of something new.
Art is a pure idea of the artist’s imagination.
Art is the action of the artist’s thoughts.
Art is not mechanical or automatic.
Art is the artist’s analyses.
Art is the artist’s humor and critique.
Art is an examination of the artist being.
Art is the artist’s conscious hallucination.
Art is the artist’s unconscious fantasy.
Art is an awareness of intellectual being.
Art is an awareness of the artist’s higher being.
Art exists because the artist had the vision.
Art is the artist's seeing and observation.
Art is the artist's dream.
Art is a dream.
Art for the culture is to dream
Art for the artist is to be.

thinking of Joseph Kosuth

2009 The Graduate Equity Fellowships, CSUEB | QWOCMA | Astraea Lesbian
Foundation for Justice | CA Arts Council Grants | Horizons Foundation | Ruth
Gumnit & Art of Mac | SF Arts Commission | SF Foundation Sunset Beacon Center |
The Justice Fund Women’s Foundation of CA | Zellerbach Family Foundation
2006 Guy and Louise Condrott Scholarship Fund, Inc.