Tim Rollins and K.O.S. is an artist collective that was founded by the late Tim Rollins in the early 1980s as a project for young people growing up in the South Bronx. The group created works using whatever they had to hand: bricks from torn-down buildings in the neighborhood, used school materials, textbooks, and notebooks. With a strong political motivation and shocked by conditions in the South Bronx, Rollins developed a unique learning environment that ultimately turned into the artist group the Kids of Survival.
RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY - ACT I (after Brecht and Weill)
2010
Gold shellac, whiskey, butchers twine, acrylic, music score pages on canvas
183 x 305 x 4 cm / 72 x 120 1/8 x 1 5/8 in
© Tim Rollins and K.O.S.
RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY - ACT II (after Brecht and Weill)
2010
Gold shellac, whiskey, butchers twine, acrylic, music score pages on canvas
183 x 305 x 4 cm / 72 x 120 1/8 x 1 5/8 in
© Tim Rollins and K.O.S.
RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY - ACT III (after Brecht and Weill)
2010
Gold shellac, whiskey, butchers twine, acrylic, music score pages on canvas
183 x 305 x 4 cm / 72 x 120 1/8 x 1 5/8 in
© Tim Rollins and K.O.S.
SONGS WITHOUT WORDS (after Mendelssohn)
2010
Matte acrylic, music score pages on canvas
213.5 x 365.5 cm / 84 x 144 in
© Tim Rollins and K.O.S.
METAMORPHOSEN (after Richard Strauss)
2010
Black shellac ink, music score pages on canvas
183 x 305.5 x 4 cm / 72 x 120 1/4 x 1 5/8 in
© Tim Rollins and K.O.S.
Animal Farm '07 (after George Orwell)
2007
Acrylic on book pages on canvas
137 x 183 cm / 53 7/8 x 72 in
© Tim Rollins and K.O.S.
Letter from a Birmingham City Jail (after Rev. Dr. M.L. King, Jr.)
2006
Matt acrylic on book pages on canvas
172.5 x 228.5 cm / 67 7/8 x 90 in
© Tim Rollins and K.O.S.
Amerika - Everyone is Welcome ! (after Kafka)
2002
Acrylic on book pages on canvas (not stretched)
244.5 x 728 cm / 96 1/4 x 286 5/8 in
© Tim Rollins and K.O.S.
I See the Promised Land (After Dr. Martin Luther Kind Jr.) #2
1999
Pencil, acrylic on book page, framed
Sheet 23 x 18 cm / 9 x 7 in
Frame 41.5 x 31.5 x 2.5 cm / 16 3/8 x 12 3/8 x 1 in
© Tim Rollins and K.O.S.
I See the Promised Land (After Dr. Martin Luther Kind Jr.) #3
1999
Pencil, acrylic on book page, framed
Sheet 23 x 18 cm / 9 x 7 in
Frame 41.5 x 31.5 x 2.5 cm / 16 3/8 x 12 3/8 x 1 in
© Tim Rollins and K.O.S.
Animal Farm '92 (after George Orwell)
1992
Acrylic, book pages on canvas, caption tablet; 2 parts
Image 279 x 1375 cm / 109 7/8 x 541 3/8 in
Caption tablet 63.5 x 122 x 4 cm / 25 x 48 x 1 5/8 in
© Tim Rollins and K.O.S.
Frankenstein (after Mary Shelley)
1984
Acrylic on canvas (not stretched)
289 x 402 cm / 113 3/4 x 158 1/4 in
© Tim Rollins and K.O.S.
