Rosaire Appel

Rosaire Appel was born in New York City and grew up in semi-rural environments. Returning to the city at 20, she participated in poetry workshops, and attended the New York Studio School when it first opened. She has no degrees or certificates. She wrote two experimental novels (published by Fiction Collect 2) before turning to darkroom photography in the late 80’s. As analog morphed to digital she began combining word and image in book forms. Since then she has produced many visual books, limited editions, unique as well as commercially printed. Using visual means, her work explores relationships among reading, writing, looking and listening She maintains an on-going drawing practice, analog and digital, which include abstract comics, visual poems, asemic writing, visual sound and prints.

Her work has been included in many literary journals and exhibited sporadically in the U.S. as well as Europe.