About Ray M. Rosdale

Ray M. Rosdale is an artist and writer based in Berlin. Her paintings reveal suspended moments, inviting viewers to complete the story on their own terms. 

Rosdale was trained as a historian, coming to visual art after decades working in cultural history, curating exhibitions, editing publications, and producing documentary work concerned with memory and personal narrative embedded in social contexts and the material world. Trained in the interpretation of cultural artifacts, she describes her work process as one utilizing archive and private photos, sketches, and color studies as building blocks, sometimes feeding these into AI to produce "hallucinations leading to a jolt of recognition, images that feel remembered despite being synthetically invented." These "curated hallucinations" often form the basis for her paintings, sometimes done in oil and often as purely digital paintings. After years of working in oils, cold wax, printmaking, and mixed media, concentrating on material and process with an emphasis on mark-making, her practice now incorporating digital painting tools still displays a gestural directness and sensitivity to color and texture developed through traditional painting methods.

Recent Exhibitions
2024: "Von Cottbus über Lüneburg bis Osaka," Group Exhibition, curated by Matthias Körner, Brandenburg Museum of Modern Art
2024: "Other Worlds," Berlin Art Week
2023: Open Studio, LANDschafftKUNST IX