Rosy Keyser “The OtherOther” at Maccarone

The paintings in The OtherOther, Rosy Keyser’s second solo exhibition at Maccarone and her first in the L.A. gallery, testify to the salvational nature of hard work. Built large, and often of curious and provocative stuff—bits of Dutch wax, plastic zip ties, snake-patterned nylon cables, a pair of red suspenders, sticks—the works carry with them an aura of fierce urgency, the suggestion of a shipwrecked maker forced to reassemble the world from sometimes absurd fragments.