About

CR Rousseau is an American abstract painter whose work explores color as both architecture and structural language. Rousseau investigates color as spatial and psychological structure rather than a purely expressive device. Her paintings function as environments of perception, inviting viewers into slow, embodied encounters where color operates as emotional and cognitive architecture.

Her recent practice is informed by traditions of color field painting and perceptual abstraction while remaining grounded in contemporary concerns around attention, inner life and shared humanity. The work resists quick reading and instead invites sustained presence, where movement, tension and moments of calm coexist.