Mel Rosen
Mel Rosen is a multimedia artist whose drawings and ceramics respond to shifting ecological and technological conditions, informed by local coastal sea-finds, archaeological and mythic histories, and artificial intelligence. Untethered by time, her objects and drawn environments carry a sense of strangeness and inhabit a terrain where ancient forms converge with geometric and AI-like distortions, suggesting how climate change and accelerating technologies may reshape the landscapes we inhabit and entities we encounter.
Her work suggests shifting states of parasitism, mutualism, and adaptation, reflecting how material, spiritual, and digital artifacts evolve to survive as they are continually reshaped by habitat, technology, and interpretation—holding both warning and promise.
Rosen holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art/Temple University and a BFA from RISD, with additional study in Rome and New Zealand. She exhibits nationally and internationally and lives in South Carolina.
Statement on Artificial Intelligence:
I approach artificial intelligence with both curiosity and critique. While it opens new creative possibilities and fast iteration, AI also raises questions around authorship, labor, and originality. I see AI as a powerful, inevitable addition to the artist’s toolbox and I use no images, styles or prompts sourced from other artists wherever I have control.
My work is a reaction to AI and insists on the presence of my personal invention and my own hand, aspiring to make meaning through personal creativity, slowness and repetition.