Athens , Bernier/Eliades Gallery
January 24 – March 20, 2008




Susan Rothenberg was born in Buffalo, New York in 1945. She received a BFA from Cornell University.

Her early works that came to prominence in the 1970s New York art world, were mainly large acrylic, figurative paintings of horses.

In these paintings, life-sized horse images, are diminished to their most essential elements and have a glyph-like quality. The horses, together with pared body parts (heads, eyes, and hands) have a primitive like character and become formal elements that Rothenberg uses to investigate the meaning, mechanics, and core of painting.

Since the 1990s her works are mostly reflections of her move from New York to New Mexico. Rothenberg adopts oil painting, and she finds a new interest in using the memory of observed and experienced events (a riding accident, a near-fatal bee sting, walking the dog, a game of poker or dominoes) as a source of inspiration for creating a painting.

With the use of thickly layered and intense brushwork, her paintings acquire life and depict scenes from everyday life - eIther an unpleasant event or a moment of remembrance. A distinctive element also of these works is a tilted perspective which attributes to the work an eerily objective psychological edge.

Susan Rothenberg received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Skowhegan Medal for Painting. She has had one-person exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Dallas Museum of Art; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Tate Gallery, London, among others.

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