[1] Rosen received her BA in Linguistics, Spanish, and French from Newcomb College of Tulane University in 1965.
Rosen's artwork is largely text-based, employing "formalism, linguistics, and humor to reveal content that is hidden within both the structural nature of written language and the ways in which meaning can be generated through the manipulation of text.
[5] Many of her works are representations of words in which certain letters have been juxtaposed or rendered in different colors or scales in order to reveal hidden messages or to draw attention to the relationship between language and meaning.
[10][11] Rosen's work frequently veers into commentary on the U.S. political condition, often deploying wit and humor.
The blurring of colors in text were interpreted as a statement related to political divides between Missouri's rural and urban populations.