Rose Haserodt is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in oil paint, charcoal and chalk pastel. Her emotionally charged work draws from the visual language of collage, blending cubist abstraction with lifelike figures in symbolic natural settings. Nature plays a profound role—an image of a setting sun beside a tired, haunted horse might evoke quiet despair. Through layered imagery and symbolism, her work offers a deeply personal window into her emotional landscape and lived experience.
Themes of trauma, memory and resilience surface frequently, approached with gentleness and quiet strength. Rose creates space for viewers to engage difficult emotions through beauty, natural imagery and metaphor. Often calling her pieces “implicit works,” Rose conceals explicit narrative in favor of emotional resonance.
Influenced by artists like Frida Kahlo, Joseph Yoakum, Alice Neel, Dana Schutz, Jenna Gribbon and Tschabalala Self, Rose fuses expressive portraiture with surreal elements and metaphorical landscapes. Her painterly approach to dry media—smearing and blending pastels and charcoal like oil paint—yields bold, intimate and atmospheric drawings.
Rose’s practice is shaped by the mentorship of Lillian Kuri, her connection with fellow CIA alumni and a visceral engagement with the natural world. Working in a politically divided and socially isolated time—where social media stands in for authentic connection and climate change accelerates unchecked—her work reflects solitude and introspection. By melding diverse faces and bodies, Rose hints at shared humanity, suggesting that our common ground outweighs our differences.
