ROSE MASTERPOL | “LANGUAGE OF SHAPE”
“THE GEOMETRIX”
My works emphasize multi-layered systems of abstraction within time and space. All of my paintings have a geometrical component but also have an emotional relationship of meaning. The paintings are either from the gestural action painting part of my career (energetic, chaotic, free form) or the newer body of works that are narratives, a vocabulary if you will, of the “language of shape.” They are called “The Geometrix.”
They are a shift and a departure from the gestural work and contain residual remnant styles, shape, thought, an emotion from prior works. I design them digitally and then draw the shapes on the canvas, then the painting process begins.
I have been a graphic designer for over 25 years—the two mediums have now become a collaboration…a marriage of the digital virtual world into a two-dimensional surface world.
The source of imagery comes from the choreography of metamorphosing organic shapes, which embody and influence a formal relationship between structure, form, movement, tension, transparency, hierarchy, flotation, and emotion. They are a ligature between contemporary art and mid–20th-century design”.
ROSE MASTERPOL
American-born artist Rose Masterpol has worked for three decades as a contemporary abstract painter. Her work is distinctive and ever-evolving because of her vast array of interests & hobbies. From poetry to her musical abilities, graphic design career to sculpture and landscape photography, all feed her creativity into painting in a series format. Masterpol’s work is the language of non-objective, organic, and pure painting. Her work consists of abstract shapes, lines, instinct, intuition made from either acrylic or oil on large canvases. She is larger than life, as are her works. Often poetic with unrivaled breadth and depth, always strong and boldly colored-the work is uncanny and perfectly balanced.
Her technical approach changes to the mood and flow of the next thing that emerges on a new canvas at any given time.
Her abstractions stream from De Stijl to Fauvism to expressionism to the pure abstract realm.
Masterpol’s inspiration since a child has been from the New York School of painters, Pollock, de Kooning, Kline, and Motherwell, to name a few.
Masterpol is self-taught, which lends to a naked and raw untainted work of art. There are no limitations for her allowing her work to constantly progress. She graduated from CalArts with a BFA in graphic design and has worked in many AD agencies in Los Angeles. Still, today, ranking as a creative director to a few clients, she is working as a full-time painter. And-in between design and painting, she always has a camera in her hands, ready for the next great shot. Her work is collected worldwide and is represented in New York along with many other galleries across the United States.
