
Rose Masterpol is a contemporary abstract painter with a career spanning over three decades. Her work, characterized by bold color, organic forms, and non-objective compositions, is deeply influenced by her diverse creative background, including poetry, music, sculpture, landscape photography, and graphic design. Painting primarily with acrylic and oil on large canvases, her work is a dynamic blend of instinct, intuition, and technical mastery, balancing raw energy with refined structure.
Self-taught as a painter, Masterpol's process remains unbound by formal constraints, allowing her work to evolve fluidly. Her abstractions draw inspiration from movements such as De Stijl, Fauvism, and Abstract Expressionism, with influences from the New York School painters, including Pollock, de Kooning, Kline, and Motherwell.
A graduate of CalArts with a BFA in graphic design, Masterpol has also worked extensively in the advertising industry as a creative director. Now a full-time artist, her work is collected worldwide and represented in galleries across the United States.
EDUCATION (ARTS)
California Institute of the Arts, CA (BFA)
Syracuse University, NY - Graphic Design/Illustration
Onondaga Comm. College, NY (AAS) - Fine Arts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020/Sept. 11th [RECEPTION noon - 5 pm] Nüart Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2019/January Cheryl Hazan Contemporary, NYC "Algo Rhythms"
2017/June Victory Contemporary, Santa FE NM "Saints + Sinners"
2015/July Kobalt Gallery, Provincetown, MA "Dogmata"
2014/March Artamo Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, "WHITE"
2012/June Hadid Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Deliberate and Unintentional"
2012/May Artamo Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, 1"Emoticon"
2011/April Artamo Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, "Catharsis"
2011/Aug Artiste Winery & Gallery, Los Olivos, Ca (exhibited my art/ my work on label)
2006/Nov Deja Design Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Architecture with Paint"
2004/March ARTFront, Los Angeles, CA "Essence"
2002/Nov LA Brewery Art Walk, Los Angeles, CA
2000/April LA Brewery Art Walk,Los Angeles, CA
1999/Nov LA Brewery Art Walk, Los Angeles, CA
1995/July BOVA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Summer Color"
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019/Novemeber Nuart Gallery, Santa Fe NM "Abstraction Exhibition 2019"
2018/September Buckhead Art & Company, Atlanta Georgia "Black & White"
2018/May Buckhead Art & Company, Atlanta Georgia "ARTISTS ALIGN"
2018/Feb Wallspace LA - Art Palm Springs - Premier Art Fair Wallspace LA
2018/Jan Glave Kocen Gallery, "Size Doesn't Matter 11"
2017/July Wallspace LA, Los Angeles, CA "Sizzle"
2017/June Kocen Glave Gallery, Richmond VA "One Hit Wonder"
2016/August Kobalt Gallery Provincetown, Massachusetts "In This Together"
2016/July Janine Contemporary Industri "New Identity" Santa Fe, NM
2015/Dec. ARTAMO Gallery, Santa Barbara "MASTERPOL & GYÖRFI: IN CONTRAST"
2015/Dec. Miami Spectrum - Artblend
2015/Oct. Cambridge City Art Fair - UK
2015/August Kobalt Gallery, Provincetown, MA "Kobalt Celebrates 10 Seasons"
2015/July Artamo Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA "Artamo Summer Exhibit"
2015/June Affordable Art Fair in Hampstead Heath, London
2015/May Kobalt Gallery, Provincetown, MA "Twenty Fifteen Season Preview"
2015/April Glave Kocen Gallery, Richmond VA "Natural Surroundings"
2015/March Battersea AAF (London)
2014/August Kristin Johnson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM "EQUUS ANNUM"
2014/August Artamo Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA "Summer Mix"
2014/Jan. Artamo Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, "Into a New Year"
2013/Sept. Ian Ross Gallery, San Francisco, CA, "Urban Influences in Contemporary Art"
2013/Oct. O Gallery, San Jose del Cabo, BCS "The O Show"
2013/March Factory West Gallery, Red Bull Curates "Canvas Cooler Los Angeles"
2013/March Broadway Art Space, Santa Monica, CA "WOMEN MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND"
2013/March Artamo Gallery , Santa Barbara, CA, "ARSGEOMETRICA"
2012/Dec Red Dot Miami, FL with Pippin Gallery
2012/Aug Pippin Contemporary Santa Fe "What's this Journey all about"
2012/July Artamo Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, "Summer Mix"
2011/June Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA "Out There"
2011/April Create Fixate, LA - DTWN LA "Liberate Your perception"
2011/April The Advocate & Gochis Galleries, Los Angels, CA 2-woman show "Raw Sophistication"
2011/Nov Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA "Form vs. The Abyss" 2-woman show
2009/April Art Dimensions Gallery, Westwood, CA
2009/Dec Gallery 1018 - DTWN LA
2009/WallSpace, Los Angels, CA
2009/Aug. City of BREA Art Gallery, Brea, CA "For love or Money"
2009/Spring Arts Collective, Los Angeles, CA
2007/Farmini Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007/Aug The Whole 9 Gallery, Culver city "Women Rock"
2005/January The Solaris Gallery, A Don O'Malvey gallery W. Hollywood, CA "Electric Art Show"
2004/June Track 16 Gallery/Bergamot Station, LA "Hollywood Bowl Frank Gehry Sphere Art Project"
2003/Desert Art Source Gallery, Palm Springs - represented by gallery - Palm Desert, CA
2001/Oct. BGH Gallery/Bergamot Station LA - Fundraiser for 911-one night event "Art Heals"
1994/Downtown Arts Development Association "DADA Downtown Lives 94", LA
1992/Out of Darkness Gallery, Long Beach CA
1991/CALARTS Main Gallery, Valencia, CA "Raw" 2-person show
1990/July Double K Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989/May Mothra Gallery, Columbus Ohio "Wrapped in Black"
MUSEUM
2007/Nov Palm Springs Museum, "Artists Council 39th National Juried Exhibition"
TV/FILM
2012 American Express Commercial (Azizi Ansari)
2012 Budweiser - Eternal Optimism Super Bowl
2011 Rules of Engagement (tv show)
2012 Two and a Half Men (tv show)
2011 Time Warner Cable Commercial
2011 Old Spice Commercial
2010 Apple Commercial
2010 Charter Communications Commercial
2007 "Ocean's 13" (2 paintings featured)
2004 Lexus Advertisement (print ad)
2004 AT&T Commercial
2002 Bernie Mac show
2001 New Dramatic Series (TV) "HMO"