THE WORK:
Winged, mustachioed pickles
that lament the dismantling of
kindness in the world.
Fields of rabbits wearing
gasmasks and germsuits.
Fathers and sons playing catch
with human skulls.
Death wielding a sombrero and
a forty-ounce. &<8232;
With a heavy nod to comic book
culture and a cut-and-paste
punk aesthetic, Keith Rosson’s
paintings are simultaneously
droll and incendiary; he
tackles emotional, universal
themes with a dark,
tongue-in-cheek gallows humor.
Bright, text-heavy and
immediately recognizable,
Rosson’s acrylic paintings
often utilize secondary
elements that most often
include ink and correction
fluid, as well as bullets,
teeth, nails, switchblades and
cell phones and has led one
critic to claim that,
“(Rosson) continues putting
out the finest graphic novels
distilled into paintings in
the Pacific Northwest.”

THE ETCETERA:
Keith Rosson has participated
in nearly three dozen solo and
group exhibitions in the past
five years, including a solo
exhibit at The Life Gallery in
Portland, Oregon. He is shown
regularly ...

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