RACHEL ROSENKOTTER
September 7 - December 14, 2022
ARTIST STATEMENT
I make images, objects and spaces that address mystical experience and the historical and contemporary archetypes swirling around these states of being. Immersion in ecstatic states drives me to attempt to express their bizarre, boundary-dissolving resonance. My work draws together imagery mined from mythology, spiritual traditions, popular culture and my own inner landscape and channels these symbols into discrete projects. I seek visceral connection to the material world through my process, utilizing illustration, painting and installation to depict, reference or induce ecstatic states. With equal parts embrace and criticality, my work reveals symbols and the body as divine and potent with power while grappling with the unrepresentable nature of the sacred. My practice disputes conceptualism’s purported importance over pleasure and physicality in the work of art. Remixing elements of disparate iconographies with my own visions, I speak to ecstatic and erotic experience in a riotous celebration of color, materiality, excess, and abundance.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Rachel Rosenkoetter is a freelance artist, illustrator, and designer living in Kansas City, MO. Born and raised in MO, Rosenkoetter received her BFA in Painting from Missouri State University and her MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art. Rosenkoetter’s work reflects a fascination with mysticism, the natural world and popular culture. Utilizing digital and traditional media from Copic markers to vector graphics, she creates playful, colorful images and installations that evoke a sense of joy and magic. Rosenkoetter is a founding member of Killjoy Collective and the creator of the Rainbow Heart Tarot.
This exhibition is in partnership with our friends at MIDTOWN KC NOW and is available for viewing at their offices located at 3931 Main Street, KCMO 64111.
To schedule a viewing please contact jen@kansascityartistscoalition.org / 816.421.5222.
