Meg Rotzel

QFH Grid Drawings, an excerpt of a set: dark grid,
yellow wandering grid, color interlock grid,
color wandering/line form, color bleed-through interlock

Ink, lake water, Spencer’s paper, Nelia’s paper, Nico and Meg
2025
Variable dimensions

Created during a generative residency at a friend's home in the summer of 2025, the media list here alludes to the artist’s human and more-than-human collaborators; from materials to people and places. Significantly, the words “text” and “textile” share the same root in the Latin word textere, which means “to weave” or “intertwine.” In exploring the grid as a weaving structure and engaging in an exercise of formal repetition, Rotzel creates a visual vocabulary that expands and evolves as language and relationships would.

Text edited from curator María Fernanda Mancera’s label for the exhibition WOR[L]DS, on view at the Providence College Galleries November 5, 2025 – February 7, 2026