Rosa Doherty
Rosa Doherty is a New England-based conceptual artist born and raised in Maine. After initially pursuing film studies at the School of Visual Arts in New York City during the 2020 pandemic, they moved to Boston in 2021 to study at Massachusetts College of Art and Design's Studio for Interrelated Media. They have been featured in school-wide exhibitions such as All-School Show, SIM Big Show, New Culture, Monolith, Last Kiss, stimuli: as well as in DIY spaces around Boston such as Mycelium, The Junk Drawer, Somverille Lofts and Gallery 52. They have explored a variety of mediums/practices ranging from film to live poetry to noise music to Butoh theatre.
Artist Statement
My practice is heavily based in experimental and intuitive improvisations. Through my work, I seek to bridge the gaps between language, intuition, hierarchy and the natural world. I take inspiration from minimalism, Marxism, pop culture and avant-garde art movements around the globe and throughout history. It is of my own personal importance to have critical love for the institutions which surround me and also to challenge their theoretical ideals and barriers through a radical lens. Through this lens I find the artistic freedom to think without acting and act without thinking, which provides the essential intuitive and improvisational chaos that is at the center of my practice as an artist. It is my goal to create work within the current spectacle of technological existence and within the excess of late-stage capitalism that evokes a revolutionary sense of nothingness.
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