Rhodes paints as a mode of experimentation into the nature of language and conceptualization. Formally trained as an analytic philosopher, her brushstrokes are both geometric and calligraphic. Her paintings and works on paper are deeply expressionist, while teetering between abstraction and figuration.

The consistent use of blue and white gestural shape making is a symbolic reference to classic architectural blueprints. To view the paintings as a series is to experience the emergence of the artist’s unique language code, an expression of the philosophy at the heart of The Geoveritas text, which she authored.

While the paintings are visual art objects that can be “read,” The Geoveritas text from which they arise is a work that must be absorbed through nonlinear spatial imagining. Both are experimentations at the intersection between the written word and the visual symbol.