There is kinetic energy that arises when two artists join in a many-faceted relationship. In the case of William Hays and Nina Rossi of Turners Falls, Massachusetts, it is both cosmic and pedestrian.
The artists have been married for five years, and the interchange and self-knowledge attained through a wholistic partnership is almost indulgent; it is a precious balance of domestic collaboration and individual art practice that forges the day forward, rising tides of inspiration from the other and respect for the silence that leads to the artmaking.
The two artists’ processes and works could not be more polar.
Rossi bullets down a rabbit hole of images, ideas, community participation and differentiated media; her works stem from an almost medusa-like process, always in motion and captured from different sources.
Hays’ printmaking is process-oriented, introspective and methodical. He mixes the precise beauty of the landscape with the slight stream of the extraterrestrial stemming from his own personal visual revelations.