Rosa Lowinger

Rosa Lowinger is a noted Cuban-born American art conservator. She is also the author of "Tropicana Nights: The Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Nightclub", and various articles on modern art and architecture.

Education

Born to a Jewish family,[1] Lowinger is an alumnus of Brandeis University, receiving a bachelor of arts in fine arts and art history in 1978. She received a Master of Arts in art history and a certificate in art conservation from the New York University Institute of Fine Arts in 1982.[2]

Career

Lowinger is considered a leader in the field of conservation of built heritage, a subject which includes art, architecture, museum collections and public spaces.[3] She has been in private practice since 1982, first in Philadelphia, then in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1988, she founded Sculpture Conservation Studio in Los Angeles and served as its chief conservator and principal until 1998, when she sold the firm to concentrate more on writing. She remained active as the firm's senior conservator through 2008, supervising most of its large scale architectural projects, most notably the conservation of Helen Lundeberg's "History of Transportation" mural in Inglewood, CA.

In 2008 she was awarded the 2008–2009 Rome Prize in Conservation from the American Academy in Rome to research the history of vandalism against art and public space.[2][4]

In that same year she parted ways with Sculpture Conservation Studio and formed Rosa Lowinger and Associates (RLA), a conservation firm with an international focus and offices in Miami and Los Angeles.[2] RLA's clients include a wide range of public and private entities including the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority Gold Line to Pasadena,[5] the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts,[6] Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, The Huntington Library in San Marino, California, the Frost Art Museum at the Florida International University and the cities of Los Angeles, Miami, Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Santa Monica, Santa Fe Springs, Inglewood, and Honolulu.[2]

In the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Lowinger and paintings conservator Viviana Dominguez were hired by the Smithsonian Institution and Haiti Cultural Recovery Center to remove the three remaining murals of the collapsed Cathedral of Sainte Trinité in Port-au-Prince. These murals included the Last Supper murals by Philome Obin, the Procession to Cana by Préfète Duffaut and the Baptism of Christ by Castera Bazile.[7]

As a writer, Lowinger's most notable achievement is "Tropicana Nights: The Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Nightclub", a non-fiction account of Cuba's celebrated 1950s nightclub.[8][9] Published in 2005, and co-authored by Ofelia Fox, widow of Tropicana's owner Martin Fox, Tropicana Nights is considered the definitive book on Havana's nightlife in the pre-Castro era and the source of much original material used in other books about the period.[10][11] Lowinger's research on the Mafia's involvement in Havana's casinos has led to her being a lead source in The History Channel's Declassified:Godfathers of Havana.[12] Lowinger is also author "The Encanto File", a play about blackmail in Miami that was produced at the Judith Anderson Theater by the Women's Project and Productions[13][14] and numerous articles on contemporary Cuban art.[15][16][17]

Lowinger is an associate editor of the University of Pennsylvania's architectural conservation academic journal "Change Over Time"[18] and writes under the pseudonym of The Art Nurse on art blog c-monster.net's conservation question and answer section.[2][19]

She also reviews books for the web magazine Truthdig.com.[19]

Honors

References

  1. ↑ Jewish Journal: "So many authors, so little time" by Naomi Pfefferman September 14, 2006
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "About Me". rosalowinger.com. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Architecture and Design at MOLAA". molaa.com. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
  4. 1 2 "ROSA LOWINGER". aarome.org/. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
  5. ↑ Pool, Bob (July 16, 1996). "Statues Under Siege". latimes.com. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Annual Meeting / Conference 2006". hawaiimuseums.org. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
  7. ↑ "In Haiti: Rescuing Art Amid the Rubble". WNYC.org. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
  8. ↑ "Topicana Nights". CigarAficionado.com. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
  9. ↑ "Cafe L.A.: Rosa Lowinger and Tropicana Nights". KCRW.com. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
  10. ↑ Moruzzi, Peter (2008). Havana Before Castro: When Cuba was a Tropical Playground. Layton, Utah.: Gibbs Smith. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-4236-0367-2.
  11. ↑ English, TJ (2008). Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution. New York City: HarperCollins. p. 331. ISBN 978-0-06-114771-5.
  12. ↑ Created by Kosh, Susan Shearer, John J. Flynn (March 26, 2006). "Godfathers of Havana". Declassified. Season 1. Episode 1.13. The History Channel. Retrieved 2011-07-19.
  13. ↑ "In Haiti: Rescuing Art Amid the Rubble". RosaLowinger.com. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
  14. ↑ Gussow, Mel (April 2, 1991). "Review/Theater; An Evening of One-Acts on Rules of Relationships". NYtimes.com. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
  15. ↑ "In the hands of Cuban artist Kcho, boats, docks, and oars become potent symbols of migration". artnews.com. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
  16. ↑ "The Object as Protagonist: an Interview with Los Carpinteros Alexandre Arrechea, Marco Castillo, and Dagoberto Rodriguez". loscarpinteros.net. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
  17. ↑ "The Interview". eljardindeladesconfianza.com. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
  18. ↑ "Journal Information". c-monster.net. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
  19. 1 2 "Ask the Art Nurse". c-monster.net. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
  20. ↑ "NEW PROJECTS". elwoodandassociates.com. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
  21. ↑ "History of Transportation" Mural". laconservancy.org. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
  22. ↑ "Board of Directors". fundacionamistad.org. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
  23. ↑ "Getty Announces $1.4 Million in Grants for Architectural Preservation of Historic Buildings and Sites in Los Angeles County". getty.edu. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
  24. 1 2 Dickinson, J Ron (March 2010). "Portal of the Folded Wings – A Shrine to Aviation". airportjournals.com. Archived from the original on April 22, 2011. Retrieved July 17, 2011.

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