Christian Rosa (b. 1982)

“With Rosa, it's as though all the areas of smeared or trodden-on paint have receded back into their discrete areas of the canvas. They are linked together not through commingling, but instead as a kind of Rube Goldberg machine, where the blue ball falls down the hole, rolls around the grey track, knocks over the yellow rectangle, which falls into the brown cup. And like a Rube Goldberg device, we have a complicated visual set of interrelated and sequential occurrences that lead to something in the end very simple, which is here perhaps a light bulb of visual pleasure turning on.”
- Kathy Grayson, Catch Up With Rising Star Christian Rosa, ArtNet, 2014.