Georgia O'Keeffe Museum to Host Susan Rothenberg Exhibition

Written by William Hastings Wednesday, 11 January 2012 21:43

SANTA FE, NM.- The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum announced an upcoming exhibition featuring approximately 20 paintings by Susan Rothenberg entitled Susan Rothenberg: Moving in Place, Jan. 22 through May 16, 2010. The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum has collaborated with the Fort Worth Museum to include this exhibition in its Living Artists of Distinction series, a program that honors living artists whose works have made distinctive contributions to the history of American modern art. After being on view at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, the exhibition will travel to the Miami Art Museum.

Part of the museum’s Living Artists of Distinction Series, the exhibition at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum follows a well-received showing at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Texas), where it was organized by that museum’s chief curator, Michael Auping.

Moving in Place is Rothenberg’s first solo museum show in more than a decade. The artist and Auping, who have known each other for over three decades, have selected works that span Rothenberg’s career from her early horse paintings of the mid-1970s to those from her most recent body of work. Each painting highlights key compositional strategies in a formal narrative in which perceived movement, fragmentation and painterly gesture establish a dynamic interaction with the edges and frames of the canvases.

Since the mid-1970s, Rothenberg has been widely recognized as one of the most innovative and independent artists of the contemporary period. From her early years in SoHo through her move to the New Mexico desert landscape, Rothenberg has remained as influenced and challenged by her physical surroundings as she is by artistic issues and her own personal experiences. In addition to her earliest horse paintings, Rothenberg has taken on numerous forms as subject matter. These include 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

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