Susan ROTHENBERG

American painter.

[ BUFFALO 1945 ]

Domain :

ARTS

Geographical area :

AMÉRIQUE DU NORD

Etats-Unis

Author : Marion DANIEL

Under the direction of : Marie-Laure BERNADAC

Susan Rothenberg studied sculpture at the State University of New York. As a dancer and assistant for Joan Jonas (1936) and Nancy Graves* (from 1970), she became interested in performance art, bridging the gap between minimalist aesthetics and emotional body language. She married the artist George Trakas in 1971. Defined as neo-expressionist, neo-impressionist, Surrealist, and even futurist, her work has been associated with New Image Painting, a movement that reconciled the new impulse that had been given to figuration and symbolic subjects with the rigour of minimalist abstraction. Her first solo exhibitions were held at...

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Bibliography

■ Susan Rothenberg, The Prints: A catalogue raisonné, Philadelphia, P. Maxwell, 1987; Paintings and Drawings (exhibition catalogue), New York, Buffalo, Rizzoli/Albright-Know Art Gallery, 1992; Paintings from the Nineties (exhibition catalogue), Brutvan C., Creeley R. (texts), Boston/New York, Museum of Fine Arts/Rizzoli, 1999.

■ Simon J., Susan Rothenberg, New York, Abrams, 1991.

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