K. Rossi

“Ross-ee”, he/they, b. 1994 in Long Island, NY.

I’m Rossi, a self-taught artist based in central Ohio working with oil paint and digital media. My work centers on the human figure, focusing on the body and exploring themes of gender, solitude, personhood, and the human experience.

I paint a wide array of genders and body types, and many are androgynous to a degree. Part of my mission is to promote body positivity and gender diversity in the art world and other contexts.

I’d always been an artsy kid growing up, and began studying drawing fundamentals trying to learn how to make comics. I ended up falling in love with figure drawing, and that’s most of what I’ve been doing since.

Common to all my work now is painting my subject with bold textures and colors. The result is extraordinary, but still very human, contemplative and introspective.

When not hunched over my drawing tablet, you can find me on the Columbus Coffee Trail, volunteering at pride events, or reading on the porch with my wife and cat.