Rose McBurney (b. 1976) is a painter based in New Haven, CT, and New Orleans, LA. She graduated from the University of New Orleans with a BA in Studio Arts in 2023 and is currently an MFA Painting/Printmaking candidate at the Yale School of Art, class of 2025. Training in the non-habitual, by insinuating herself fragmentarily into places without taking them over in their entirety or keeping them at a distance, Rose explores what is ripe in the world, in the collective unconscious, or within herself. Her work, characterized by a single layer of oil on linen, reveals a nuanced tension that engages the viewer through the interplay between the image and the surface.



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