Roslyn Rose’s work is both creative and imaginative. There is a freshness in her photomontages, combining her technical expertise as a photographer and printmaker with her rare eye for place and people, the past and present to produce unique visual images. Transfer and transformation (the title of her one person show) are the appropriate words to describe her artistic process.
Rose’s original art shows her mastery of sophisticated modern technology-emulsion transfer and digital printing-with the traditional hands-on application processes. There is more to her work than merely pressing a key or scanning an image. She does not let us forget the fact that she is an artist first with an exceptional eye and an important message. She is very much of the present, constantly exploring and discovering new tools to express her creative vision of the world around us.

What comes across in Rose’s montages is a fearlessness and breadth. A fearlessness to explore and experiment with new digital tools available to the artist today and using them to redefine how a work of art is conceived and executed, and a breadth and sensitivity in her vision of the world. Her visual landscapes are based on transfer and transformation--transferring her photographs on a new surface; and therefore, transforming them into a new conceptual vision of our reality by bringing a new sense of excitement and discovery.

Nancy di Benedetto is a New York Art Critic, Historian, Professor, and Lecturer.