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Susan Charna Rothenberg (January 20, 1945 – May 18, 2020) was an American contemporary painter, printmaker, sculptor, and draughtswoman. [1] She became known as an artist through her iconic images of the horse, which synthesized the opposing forces of abstraction and representation.
Susan Charna Rothenberg (January 20, 1945 – May 18, 2020) was an American contemporary painter, printmaker, sculptor, and draughtswoman. She became known as an artist through her iconic images of the horse, which synthesized the opposing forces of abstraction and representation.
- Childhood
- Early Training and Work
- Mature Period
- Late Period and Current Work
- The Legacy of Susan Rothenberg
Susan Rothenberg was born in Buffalo, New York in 1945 and spent most of her youth there. While her parents simply wished for her to graduate college and marry a man with a stable profession, such as a doctor, Rothenberg defied expectation and became interested in art from an early age. Her grandfather was a house painter and a family friend was an...
Rothenberg enrolled at Cornell University and began studying sculpture. She soon quit however because the department head told her that she had no talent. The artist herself remembered being a "goofy girl" and said, "it wasn't an ambition of mine to become an artist; I thought I'd be the muse of a famous painter. I think that I've grown into it." S...
In 1974 Rothenberg drew a vertical line on a canvas and then added the figure of a horse thinking primarily of good proportion and questions of beauty, thus beginning her famous and influential Horse series. Her first solo show was in 1975 at 112 Greene Street, an alternative art space in SoHo, where she showed three of these new and large-scale ho...
Rothenberg met famed artist Bruce Nauman at a dinner party in 1988 and within three months the two were married. After a year and a half of going back and forth from New York (so Maggie could finish high school) to Galisteo, New Mexico, where Nauman owned a sprawling 700-acre ranch, Rothenberg moved to the Southwest permanently. The couple own nume...
Susan Rothenberg's legacy would have no doubt been secured with her Horsepaintings of the late 1970s, but her successive decades of work only solidified her reputation as a painter of immense verve, depth of feeling, and simultaneously meticulous and spontaneous technique. Critic Peter Schjeldhal deemed her "quite simply, one of the most thoroughly...
- American
- January 29, 1945
- Buffalo, New York, USA
- May 18, 2020
Jun 16, 2020 · Rothenberg, 1945–2020. Artists and curators pay tribute to a. painter who reinvented figuration. Amy Sillman, Guillermo Kuitca, Joan Jonas, Michael. Singer, Kathy Halbreich, Christophe Cherix, Michelle Kuo. Jun 16, 2020. Susan Rothenberg has left an indelible mark on the art world and on MoMA’s collection. Her work has been admired by ...
May 19, 2020 · Susan Rothenberg was born in 1945 in Buffalo, New York. She received encouragement from her father to become an artist and paid visits to the city’s Albright-Knox museum.
- Alex Greenberger
May 22, 2020 · Susan Rothenberg, White Deer, 1999–2001. ©2020 Susan Rothenberg/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York/Modern Art Museum Fort Worth, Texas.
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Susan Charna Rothenberg (January 20, 1945 – May 18, 2020) was an American contemporary painter, printmaker, sculptor, and draughtswoman. She became known as an artist through her iconic images of the horse, which synthesized the opposing forces of abstraction and representation.
