Rosy Keyser
American painter Rosy Keyser (b. 1974, Baltimore, USA) is known for her gestural and physical approach to her powerful, often abstract and structural mixed media paintings which incorporate an array of common and recuperated materials. She earned her BFA at Cornell University in 1997 and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003. Rosy Keyser lives and works in Brooklyn and in rural Medusa, New York State.
Keyser challenges the formal boundaries of painting in a classical sense, but her works are imbued with intensely raw energy and imagination. The artist has been living between a rural environment and a buzzing city since a young age and this continues to inform her keen observation of shifting states. Keyser’s interest in composition, poetry, and philosophy influence her creative practice. Her practice of blending paint with recuperated or transformed everyday objects gives a sense of transient perception to her paintings.
Her works have been exhibited widely in North America and Europe, including at numerous institutions such as the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the MASS MoCA, Massachusetts; and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark. She was an artist in residency at the Chinati Foundation in Texas and in Læsø, Denmark. Reviews of her oeuvre can be found in Artforum, The New York Times, Art in America and more.