Kay Rosen
12 Dec 2008 - 24 Jan 2009
KAY ROSEN
"ALONE & TOGETHER"
Kay Rosen has been making work for almost four decades after a formal education inliguistics. She approaches language in a physical way; focusing on the structure of shortphrases, words, and letter forms to affect reading and expand meaning.
For Rosen, language is not limited to formal rules, but what is stumbled upon accidentally, infound parts of speech that have the potential to convey meaning non-linguistically.Predictable, cognitive, and linear reading is disrupted and re- processed as a visualexperience. Rosen’s work is often interpreted as a reaction to certain political events, but theartist purposely resists the urge to attach exclusive meaning to the work; she feels languageis fluid and changes with time, context and audience.
Kay Rosen’s work is included in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art,New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago;Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Indianapolis Museum of Art; andRebaudango Collection in Turin, Italy.
"ALONE & TOGETHER"
Kay Rosen has been making work for almost four decades after a formal education inliguistics. She approaches language in a physical way; focusing on the structure of shortphrases, words, and letter forms to affect reading and expand meaning.
For Rosen, language is not limited to formal rules, but what is stumbled upon accidentally, infound parts of speech that have the potential to convey meaning non-linguistically.Predictable, cognitive, and linear reading is disrupted and re- processed as a visualexperience. Rosen’s work is often interpreted as a reaction to certain political events, but theartist purposely resists the urge to attach exclusive meaning to the work; she feels languageis fluid and changes with time, context and audience.
Kay Rosen’s work is included in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art,New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago;Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Indianapolis Museum of Art; andRebaudango Collection in Turin, Italy.