About Rose

Rose is an artist exploring aliveness, fear, and joy through painting, printmaking, sculpture, and installation. She earned an MFA in studio art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago before attaining an MA in Counseling and Psychological Services from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota.

Rose creates art related to the experiences of children. She feels it is important to speak of both the joys and the unspoken pain of children. Snapshots found in the work reference a child's experience of worry, shame, and longing. Rose's artwork rests at the tipping point between joy, purity, and vulnerability found only within a child.

As an artist and helper, Rose trusts the youthful experiences of aimlessness, play, and mess-making as antidotes to pain and suggests that they are integral to life. Making is a mess. Mess is letting go. Letting go is transformation.

For Rose, the quickest route to playfulness is to use materials and processes that can be guided rather than controlled. She gravitates toward working with large-scale items and industrial materials often related to domestic spaces. Through manipulation of objects and materials, spaces shift from beautiful and calm to dark and unsafe and back again.

Like a worn and broken toy cherished by a child, like the human heart, the artwork simultaneously breaks down and evolves.