Rose Masterpol’s work emphasizes multi-layered systems of abstraction within time and space.  All of Masterpol’s paintings have a geometrical component, but also have an emotional relationship of meaning. The paintings are either from the gestural action painting part of her career (energetic, chaotic, free form) or the newer body of works that are narratives, a vocabulary if you will, of the “language of shape”. They are called “The Geometrix”. They are a shift and a departure from the gestural work, but also contain residual remnant styles, shape, thought and emotion from prior works.  She designs them digitally and then draws the shapes on canvas, then her painting begins. Masterpol has been a graphic designer for over 25 years——the two mediums have now become a collaboration… a marriage of the digital virtual world into a two-dimensional surface world. The source of imagery comes from the choreography of metamorphosing organic shapes which embody and influence a formal relationship between structure, form, movement, tension, transparency, hierarchy, flotation and emotion. They are a ligature between contemporary art and mid–20th-century design.