Kay Rosen on making art out of language – The Creative Independent

Painter Kay Rosen discusses the ways in which language informs her work, the benefits of imposing parameters on what you make, and why it feels good when your political life can cross paths with your creative life.

Kay Rosen on making art out of language Prelude Kay Rosen Artist Kay Rosen is an American painter whose work is largely text-based. 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. Her 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 and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. "I think of language

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