ROSAIRE APPEL
Place of Residence: New York, NY

Rosaire Appel
Place of Residence: New York, NY

Artist’s Statement:

My recent prints are multi-frames, horizontally or vertically connected.  The inspiration was not only Japanese accordion books but also from putting together video animations and of course comics.  The form of multi-frame allows for the distribution of content over time, rather than in one fell swoop.  The time element- duration- which allows content to grow and cross pollinate is particularly useful to my way of working- a gradual expansion of a theme, variations and branches.

The images evolve as I work on them simultaneously.  My source material is everywhere and unlimited.  This means that anything in the visual world is potentially useable.  I use photographs, scans, and drawings as raw material.  I am growing image-language libraries in the backyard of my computer. 

Biography:

Rosaire Appel has been selected to appear in an array of New York exhibits from 1994 through the Present.  She is currently working on an ongoing series of 7 x 9” visual books.

Many of her photographs have been published; such as MABEL IN HER TWENTIES 1992, Terrorism: an introspection 1998, and Ecstasy and the Bride Charger 2003.