KC ROSENBERG: SILENT REMEMBERING
June 16th – July 22nd, 2023
Silent Remembering is an exhibition that circles a task assigned to Rosenberg while working with a cognitive therapist during her healing from a mini-stroke in 2021. While the brain injury was minimal, Rosenberg struggled when listening to people telling personal stories because holding together patterns and details was a challenge. She was assigned a task to recall stories linearly and to pay attention to the order of details. As the exercise continued, Rosenberg wrote snippets of texts and developed abstract spaces that became a more fluid and creative counteraction to linear storytelling. The abstractions are an experiential remembering without identifiable voice, place, or narrative. Rosenberg also uses text with abstract paintings for associative connections to build new meanings.
Rosenberg’s material process happens mainly on the floor of her studio, where the raw canvas is walked upon and catches poured paint. Then to see what remains in the fabric of the canvas, she washes the canvas and responds further to the marks that stayed. By adding painted strips of canvas dripping with acrylic paint, Rosenberg collages on the top surface, creating optimal color combinations in fields of abstraction. The collaged lines appear empty or silent in memories and leave room for texts placed within the space to activate poetic associations.
Dr KC Rosenberg
Dr. KC Rosenberg is an Associate Professor at California College of the Arts. She also conducts ethnographic research that emphasizes the power of visual arts education to teach critical social skills. Rosenberg simultaneously collaborates in a duo artistic practice as RoCoCo with Bay Area artist Modesto Covarrubias. Rosenberg’s solo exhibitions include Casserole Night at Mercury 20, ; dam’zel at Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA,; and Sedimental Sentiments at Introductions, Sacramento. Alameda County Art Collection includes KC’s artwork. She earned her Ed.D. in Organizational Change and Leadership from University of Southern California in 2020, and her MFA in Studio Art from University of California, Davis in 1994. She was awarded a residency at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1993), and earned a BFA in Printmaking with high distinction from CCAC in Oakland (1987)