The painting is a partially written sentence. It serves as a field for new meaning, rising from inconsistency, trial and error, active emptiness, and unresolved narratives. It is a way of thinking, wondering, and arriving somewhere unplanned.
Rosa Bozhkov (b. 1995, New York, NY) makes paintings and drawings where observed, remembered, and invented elements interact. The materiality of paint parallels the distorting, layering, and condensing nature of recollection. The hand’s pressure swipes, and movement can be tracked through the attentive brushstroke. The construction of painted space is as careful as the attention given to the objects and their surroundings — from a windowsill to the curve of pavement to a glowing pickle jar.