Barbara Rosenthal
| Barbara Rosenthal | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Barbara Ann Rosenthal 1948 (age 68–69) The Bronx, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Brooklyn Museum Art School, Art Students League, Carnegie-Mellon University, Tyler School of Art in Rome, New York University Institute of Art History, City University of New York |
| Known for | Avant-garde art, writing, performance, photography, diaries, printmaking, artists books, video, new media, electronic media, installation, surrealism, existentialism, philosophy, conceptual art |
| Notable work | "Journal: Volumes 1-71", "Homo Futurus", "Surreal Photography", "Conceptual Photography", "Provocation Cards", "Existential Cartoons", "Button Pin Shirts", "I'm Growing Up", "Self-Portrait Room", "How Much Does The Monkey Count", "Dead Heat", "Identity Theft Masks", "Free Birds", "Renegade Horses", "Trapped Figures", "Tiny Houses", "Strange Neighborhoods", "Aberrant Trees", "Dangerous Forests", "Sinister Landscapes", "Eerie Locations", "Dark Continents", "Ola Writes The Alphabet" |
Barbara Ann Rosenthal (born 1948 in The Bronx, New York) is an American avant-garde artist, writer and performer. Her existential themes have contributed to contemporary art and philosophy. Her pseudonyms include "Homo Futurus," taken from the title of one of her books, and "Cassandra-on-the-Hudson", which alludes to her studio and residence since 1998 on the Hudson River in Greenwich Village, NYC, and "the dangerous world she envisions".
Rosenthal is idiosyncratic and prolific. She is known for often revisiting past works, recombining old elements with new, and often appears in her work in some way. These may include x-rays, brain scans and clothing. Sometimes she utilizes physical or textual elements from her journals. As a creative artist within the fields of surrealism and existentialism, Rosenthal brings existential content, via the subconscious, to conceptual art and is known for her intense introspection. and by using herself "as a guinea pig", explores what it means to be human. Her personal vision evolves with advancing technology.
As an artist, Rosenthal is known as an Old Master of New Media because of her long history in media including photography, video, performance, projection installation, interactive, electronic and digital media, text, collage, prints, artists' books and objects. Almost all are produced in editions. Most combine camera, text and performative aspects. Elements of Rosenthal's body of work, "Surreal Photography" are often present.
At age 11, Rosenthal was a weekly columnist for her town newspaper, The Franklin Square Bulletin.
Rosenthal attended the Brooklyn Museum Art School, studying figure drawing and painting taught by Isaac Soyer, in 1962-64; the Art Students' League, for figure drawing and painting, NYC, in 1964-66; New York University, for Art History, NYC, in 1966. She attended Carnegie-Mellon University and while there was editor of the literary-art magazine, Patterns, as a sophomore and once again as a senior. She spent her junior year at Temple University/Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy, studying art and art history, in 1968-69; and received her BFA in painting from Carnegie-Mellon in 1970. She attended The City University of New York/City College, for education and psychology in 1970-71; Seattle Pacific College, for media and education of the gifted in 1972-73; and received her MFA in painting at The City University of New York/Queens College in 1975.
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