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
Variable dimensions
2025

This selection of drawings, hung in a circular array, was created during a generative residency at a fellow artists’ home in New Hampshire. The media list alludes to the 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 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