Kay Rosen

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Kay Rosen (born 1943, Corpus Christi, TX) is an American painter. [1] Rosen's paintings are included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, and The Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas. [2] Rosen lives in Gary, Indiana, and New York. [1]

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Education

Rosen received her BA in Linguistics, Spanish, and French from Newcomb College of Tulane University in 1965. [3] She attended graduate school in Linguistics and Spanish at Northwestern University, [3] and then taught Spanish at Indiana University in Gary. While she was teaching in Gary, Rosen began taking studio art courses at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, [4] where she currently teaches.

Works

Rosen's artwork is largely text-based, employing "formalism, linguistics, and humor to reveal content that is hidden within both the structural nature of written language and the ways in which meaning can be generated through the manipulation of text." [1] The artist is interested in expressing language visually, and she focuses primarily on wordplay. [5] Many of her works are representations of words in which certain letters have been juxtaposed or rendered in different colors or scales in order to reveal hidden messages or to draw attention to the relationship between language and meaning. [6] These features of Rosen's style, known as word art [7] can be seen in Untitled Grid [8] at the Indianapolis Museum of Art and in The Whitney Museum of American Art's Spare Parts. [9]

In some works, language becomes structure, "with words and letterforms functioning as building blocks, and where, through unusual typographic arrangements, words and phrases can embody the thing they are describing". [1] Her precisionist-style works span in size from mural- to laptop-sized. [10] [11] Rosen's work frequently veers into commentary on the U.S. political condition, often deploying wit and humor. [12] [13]

Exhibitions

In addition to works created for gallery spaces, Rosen is known for publicly presenting work in the form of outdoor murals. [14] The piece "Blurred" was exhibited along Interstate 70 as a part of the I-70 Sign Show. It was first located near Hatton, Missouri then moved to Warrenton, Missouri. The blurring of colors in text were interpreted as a statement related to political divides between Missouri's rural and urban populations. [15] Blurred (2004) [16] is currently in the collection at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Solo exhibitions of Rosen's work have been presented at the following museums and nonprofit art institutions: [17]

Awards

Rosen is the recipient of the following awards: [17]

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  2. ↑ "ROSEN, Kay." Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, accessed March 30, 2014.
  3. 1 2 Pagel, David. Why Paint?: Judy Ledgerwood, Jim Lutes, Kay Rosen [and] Kevin Wolff: the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, March 22-April 26, 1992. Chicago: The Society, 1992.
  4. ↑ Rosen, Kay. Kaysays: Essays and Interviews by Kay Rosen. Chicago: Sara Ranchouse Publishing, 2007.
  5. ↑ Rosen, Kay. "Publish to Flourish." Art in America. October 2014, Vol. 102 Issue 9, p. 128-129.
  6. ↑ Sholis, Brian. "Kay Rosen." Artforum International. September 2005, Vol. 44 Issue 1, p. 307.
  7. ↑ Cohen, Alina (5 January 2019). "13 Artists Who Highlight the Power of Words". Artsy. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  8. ↑ "Untitled Grid (Blue Queue; No Melon, No Lemon; Daredevil; Blue Double U; Grayello; Volkswagons Rust; Emblems; A Redder A; Antititian; Gray V; Felt Tip Pen; Look for (Spanish); Greyer G; Middle of a Film Noir; Green Genre Painting; Violetter)". Indianapolis Museum of Art Online Collection. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
  9. ↑ "Kay Rosen - Spare Parts". Whitney Museum of American Art . Retrieved 30 August 2022.
  10. ↑ Johnson, Ken (2012-03-01). "KAY ROSEN: 'Wide and Deep'". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2019-03-01.
  11. ↑ Zises, Heather (2018-07-20). "KAY ROSEN ON HER MURAL 'DIVISIBILITY' AT FRONT CLEVELAND TRIENNIAL". Quiet Lunch. Retrieved 2019-03-01.
  12. ↑ Bury, Louis (2018-04-07). "Kay Rosen's Writing on the Wall". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2019-03-01.
  13. ↑ O’Neill-Butler, Lauren (2018). "Kay Rosen at Alexander Gray Associates". Artforum. Retrieved 2019-03-01.
  14. ↑ Litt, Steven (18 May 2018). "FRONT announces 3 new public art installations for downtown and University Circle (photos)". Cleveland.com. Retrieved 2019-03-01.
  15. ↑ Schuessler, Ryan (31 May 2015). "'Blah, blah, blah'? Billboard art show confronts Missouri drivers head-on". Aljazeera America. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  16. ↑ "Blurred, (2004) by Kay Rosen". Art Gallery of NSW. Retrieved 2019-03-01.
  17. 1 2 "Kay Rosen: Bio". www.kayrosen.com. Retrieved 2019-03-01.
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