Artist talk at the Danforth Museum of Art. Rhoda Rosenberg (left) and Executive Director Katherine French. (2012)

Artist talk at the Danforth Museum of Art. Rhoda Rosenberg (left) and Executive Director Katherine French. (2012)

Describing Rosenberg's printmaking process: 

She loves printmaking because it’s not immediate; she can ‘go forwards and backwards,’ and transform mistakes to achieve unexpected results. She has no plan, no idea in advance of what the print will look like. In that sense her artistic process parallels the analysand’s stream of consciousness speech. As she has stated, ‘I get an idea and then start a plate about it — it’s a sketch. I am cavalier about materials, despite their cost, I make many plates, just to start working, I take a needle and make a sketch, or I work physically, gouging the plate like a sculptor. I do not consider the surface to be precious...I love inking the plate because I do not know how it will come out.’ (Interview with Artist, June 13, 2010)
— Pamela Allara, Danforth Museum of Art Catalogue: Rhoda Rosenberg, Matrilineal Threads (2011)