Rosy Keyser

Mar 6

Rosy Keyser (b. 1974, Baltimore, MD) grew up in rural Maryland where she developed a sensational awareness of tools and materials in the outdoors. Her paintings, tactile and physical, exist as poetic forms realized in tangible objects. Keyser asks how we can propagate new beauty, new language, new structures, and new tools using the elastic language of painting. Through concrete processes involving improvisation, collage, and intuitive play, the artist negotiates the shifting relationships of creation and destruction and attendant sensuality and brutality that characterize nature. Her paintings seek to recuperate the vibrant qualities of direct experience and how it is imprinted on us. Emerging from her deep and longstanding Buddhist practice, the Keyser’s body and conceptual intent are equally visible in the configurations she pulls from the shared energetic field of human consciousness.

Rosy Keyser earned her BFA at Cornell University in 1997 and her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003. Keyser has shown extensively throughout the United States and internationally, with the solo exhibitions: Arp 273, parrasch heijnen (Los Angeles, CA); I’ll Fly Away, Nunu Fine Art (Taipei, Taiwan); The OtherOther, Maccarone (New York and Los Angeles); Medusa Pie Country, Peter Blum Gallery (New York); and We Sing Sin,Contemporary Fine Arts (Berlin, Germany). Group exhibitions include: Rosy Keyser & Eleanor Mikus, Parts & Labor, Beacon, NY; Painter Painter at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, and Pink Caviar at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark. Keyser’s work is held in the permanent collections of: the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and the Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK. Rosy Keyser was a Fall 2017 artist in residence at the Chinati Foundation (Marfa, TX) and a 2022 artist in residence at the Læsø AiR, Denmark. Rosy Keyser is represented by parrasch heijnen, Los Angeles; Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany; Nunu Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan; and Sevil Dolmaci, Dubai, UAE.