Mel Rosen
As a multimedia artist, Mel Rosen aims to address the tentative physicality of our world. Sometimes with humor, sometimes with gentility, sometimes with horror, mimicking what she takes in from observing life around her.
With diverse interests such as archaeology and art history, nature, technology and world mythology, her work asks questions such as: How are our natural histories metamorphosed, blurred, regenerated, mutated, reappropriated or obfuscated by time, climate change and human intervention? How have we as humans mimicked and used the natural world to gain power? What are artifacts of the ancient, modern and future world as it evolves?
She has a MFA from Tyler/Temple University and a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design with additional study at Temple University in Rome, Italy and University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. She has shown nationally and internationally.
Her investigation underscores the link between the human-made form and a more organic, natural world that is untouched and oblivious to such ideas.