Eileen de Rosas
MFA ’22 Fine Arts Low-Residency
My work, light and changeable, shifts in space and tone, altering the viewer’s perception both of the object and the surrounding space. I use the qualities of light, color, form, and texture to give outer shape to emotions and ideas from my inner world. Repetitive physical processes–such as wire crochet, walking, or casting– ground the work in daily rhythms. Incremental accumulation–of stitches, of photographs, of objects–adds up to a body of work and the days of a life.
Sac represents the need for spiritual protection. Golden in color and flexible in shape, it shimmers in the light and fits over my entire body. Stitched over hours of waiting up, waiting on, and waiting in, Sac is both armor and cocoon.
Eileen de Rosas is a multidisciplinary artist based in Arlington, Massachusetts. Eileen attended Parsons School of Design (BFA) and Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MFA). She received grants from MASS MoCA, the Barr Foundation, and the Arlington Cultural Council (winner of the Dawn Moses Award). Eileen was the inaugural recipient of the Wheaton College/MassArt Public Art partnership, creating a spatially transformative installation in the Beard Courtyard.
