Susan Rothenberg
| Susan Rothenberg | |
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Untitled (Horse) 1979
Susan Rothenberg's painting |
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| Born | 1945 (age 71–72) Buffalo, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Cornell University |
| Known for | Contemporary art |
| Awards | Rolf Schock Prizes in Visual Arts (2003) |
Susan Rothenberg (born 1945) is an American contemporary painter who lives and works in New Mexico, USA.
Rothenberg was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1945. In 1966 she graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. In 1967 she went to Washington, DC and studied at George Washington University and the Corcoran Museum School. In 1969 she moved to New York.
Rothenberg’s first solo exhibition in New York in 1975 was at the 112 Greene Street Gallery. Consisting of three large-scale paintings of horses, it was heralded for introducing imagery into minimalist abstraction, while bringing a new sensitivity to figuration. Critic Peter Schjeldahl called the show "a eureka," stating that "the large format of the pictures was a gesture of ambition," and that "the mere reference to something really existing was astonishing."
Since the mid-1970s, Rothenberg has been recognized as one of the most innovative and independent artists of the contemporary period.
In 2010, New York Times art critic David Belcher wrote that comparisons between Rothenberg and Georgia O'Keeffe had "become hard to avoid." From her early years in SoHo through her move to New Mexico's desert landscape, Rothenberg has remained as influenced and challenged by her physical surroundings as she is by artistic issues and personal experiences. In addition to her earliest horse paintings, Rothenberg has taken on numerous forms as subject matter, such as dancing figures, heads and bodies, animals, and atmospheric landscapes. Rothenberg's visceral canvases have continued to evolve, as she explores the boundary between figural representation and abstraction; her work also examines the role of color and light, and the translation of her personal experience to a painterly surface.
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