https://www.mollyroth.com/works daily 1.0 2025-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1547673730016-8GNUXY9W4OGPQD34BZ2H/09_Roth.jpg Works - Broken collaged inkjet print (2011) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1547671894122-L9YW85IFHZCV7OX84GRW/Screen+Shot+2019-01-16+at+3.50.44+PM.png Works - I'm So Happy You're Here knit wool, weights (2007) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1547659078711-XGICQ0JRZQTA1CW5S2KR/03+Roth+Scranton.jpg Works - Terror Management (let's get special) satin and organza ribbon (2010) Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, Illinois https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1547672755385-0P2LBO1SG0NN4C6CP68F/_MG_9584.jpg Works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1548520518765-QW3ATB8X9X7WVC01JB2B/Escapisms.jpg Works - Escapisms collaborative presentation and audience participatory performance with composer Sam Scranton discussing and exercising escapism as an artistic practice as part of the WE Series curated by Deidre Huckabay and Lia Kohl at Elastic Arts, Chicago (2017) How are you? Maybe you’re on the bus and it’s very compressed and time has stopped. Maybe the windows are dewy with human breath, and maybe there’s a dried urine spot somewhere. Maybe you’re going to a place and you don’t want to go there. Out of a sense of preservation, your senses dim a bit, the edges crinkle together into a crumple, and your body recedes 6 inches within your body, so that your outer layer can become protective, rocklike. Maybe you’re talking with someone you love, and you realize that they are very different from you and that you can’t help them to be more like you. Maybe you don’t want to help them. Maybe you don’t think you’re someone to be like. Maybe their voice and your voice become tinny and incomprehensible in your head and mouth. Out of a sense of misguided generosity, you shove your heart down deep into your belly to deal with on a different, better day. We invite you to participate in a set of exercises that will help your senses decompress and your heart find buoyancy. You can re-acclimate to the world, not to ignore its ugliest aspects, but to increase vigilance. Throughout the evening we will consider escapism as an artistic tool to sharpen attention and bring feeling to the extremities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1547662802062-VTJAXHY3BDQ6TLS5X6QW/01+Roth+Scranton.jpg Works - Thunder and Forgetting (fiasco) organza ribbon (2009) My Strawberry Roan: New Art From America, Finnish Academy of Fine Art, Helsinki, Finland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1547660597559-EPCIXIJPCDSXFDQA24DA/04_Roth+Scranton.jpg Works - The Best Times Are Sometimes (futility) satin ribbon (2008) Material Matters in conjunction with Confluence, the 2011 International Surface Design Association Conference, MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis, MN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1547668634173-KTAIZ1Q7X5D49DDDZDYD/08+Roth+Scranton.jpg Works - HOLOLITH video projection and art direction for performance created with composer Sam Scranton, performed by Mocrep (2016) The video for HOLOLITH is a simulated Weather Channel© experience comprised of real weather information, transcripts from intimate conversations, and the 1000 most used phrases from the english language. Cozy blankets, colored bucket lights, and beloved house plants surround the performers in order to give them a pleasing and secure space to create this durational work. “HOLOLITH is a durational work of speculative music that engages—through sound, image, and ritual—outsized forces that shape and are shaped by humans. HOLOLITH asks audience members to get cozy, move around and think about HOLOLITH as sculpture, just let it wash over them. HOLOLITH asks performers to perform speculative music with tools such as: landscaping stones, rebar, contact speakers, PVC instruments, found objects, bass drums. HOLOLITH finds source material in weather data, medieval manners manuals, Western Avenue car dealer info, children's jokes, and ancient-to-contemporary healing recipes. HOLOLITH is an unbroken stone circle. But HOLOLITH is also a hologram. HOLOLITH can even be a megalith, but a megalith printed on paper. packaged with bubblegum. HOLOLITH is a real good time.” - Sam Scranton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1548519400950-1QHGZ97FH0ITSMDKM3Z5/Chair+Final+Final.jpg Works - Trois Hommages gouache on paper - series of paintings created for pianist Mabel Kwan for the album Georg Fredrich Haas: Trois Hommages (2018) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1553358035012-7ISBZEHBCVAOJ3KL2UF9/IMG_3000.jpg Works - The Thief and Her Daughter latex house paint, blanket, grosgrain ribbon (2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1553359032793-X453MA16P1ZXTIFU3J47/IMG_3002.jpg Works - Kindness Fucker cotton, latex house paint, lettering enamel, and ribbon (2014) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1547657278544-62RUO6AEQAGR5EHM7QLZ/Like_02.jpg Works - Likes projected still images (ongoing project) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1676559722446-37NEYCHG7ABRQVUZELRP/image-asset.jpeg Works - Boundarymind cotton, bow hair, pine straw, and donated objects (2022) Boundarymind is an evening-length electroacoustic sound piece and aggregating multimedia installation that explores and transgresses the geographical, cultural, psychological, temporal, and musical boundaries that impact how we share ourselves with others. The project was developed collaboratively by composers/musicians Linda Jankowska and Katherine Young, video artist Kera Mackenzie and visual artist Molly Roth Scranton. Boundarymind’s production partners are Experimental Sound Studio, 6018 North, RomanSusan and P.O.Box Collective in Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1676583000714-HRZKCBIDJYCEOOBD8AWT/image-asset.jpeg Works - Parties brass, wool, roving, velvet, grosgrain, satin (2020) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1676506156107-TUOJ9NB9PI78YWMX9G2G/557B0070-2C3E-4ABA-896B-99DAFDA0DF66.JPG Works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1676565394161-P9DXX382CVFU7K3PCD3F/image-asset.jpg Works - I was here once one time and I thought about these things cotton, roving, satin ribbon (2019) Installed at The Poor Farm, Manawa, WI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1676566451884-17D16LY9W88FQZ4YHQW1/image-asset.jpeg Works - Grammia virgo watercolor and graphite on paper (2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1723584094054-MEEBQTEXBXACYFUULGDN/Dancer.jpg Works - Dancer glazed stoneware, lettering enamel, and tulle (2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1723584201684-VQ407J1KJV43M64074LC/Poem+for+Daniel.jpg Works - Poem for Daniel amethyst, bleached fabric, glazed and painted ceramics, oil pastel, postcard, satin ribbon, and spray paint on chair cushion (2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1723583907071-3P56BB5Z7Y3OM5MJLHGM/Grammia+Virgo+Detail+2.jpg Works - Grammia virgo (clay) underglaze, lettering enamel, and graphite on stoneware, with acidized chalcopyrite (2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1755961366244-IAZZF7GFD1ICI2XN5Z7X/KW_2227.jpg Works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1723580817784-WE40L762NW6VI1NF7VD5/Bird+Detail+1.jpg Works - Bird grosgrain ribbon, wool, satin, glazed stoneware, feathers, lettering enamel, plastic, dried slime (2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1755962330381-K8950Q3RLW0HUHUFNL90/bones+and+flowers2.jpg Works - Bones and Flowers tulle, satin and organza ribbon, glazed stoneware, silk tassel, and oyster shell (2025) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1755963488597-R6QJPWJ118KU5NKXZ0LN/KW_2236smaller.jpg Works - Wizard Island (How to be a Mountain) watercolor, lettering enamel, latex house paint, fabric, glazed stoneware, gold dust, and acidized chalcopyrite on clayboard (2025) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1755963888498-9DKSA85LVGM9P351SSUU/KW_2242smaller.jpg Works - Melancholy acrylic paint and butterfly wings on cardboard (2025) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1755964247685-06K7O8297VV913YTB5K6/KW_2243smaller.jpg Works - Gifts (Horned Larks) glazed stoneware, shells, moonstone, and dried thistle on latex house paint (2025) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1755966125269-KD20F0GN3DYTDT69T2P8/IMG_0326.jpg Works - Preciouser oyster shell, glazed stoneware (2025) installed with mural painted by Matt Morris at SkyART West, Chicago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1755967150558-JYX27OP5DTT2ZDS0T4GW/IMG_0337.jpg Works - Giver glazed stoneware, satin ribbon, gifted ceramic (2025) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1755969438674-6WLK645RKIFJPZHAQC3E/IMG_0198+copy.jpg Works - You Finally Noticed Me watercolor on handkerchiefs (2025) https://www.mollyroth.com/about daily 0.75 2025-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f5aff372b962c701889f2/1547661446103-LD0Z30O9BQUZPP2DP8AJ/Screen+Shot+2019-01-16+at+12.56.06+PM.png About Photo by Chris Mueller https://www.mollyroth.com/curriculumvitae daily 0.75 2025-08-23