Susan Rothenberg

Susan Rothenberg ( born January 20, 1945 in Buffalo, New York State ) is an American painter and illustrator.

Life and work

Susan Rothenberg grew up in a typical American middle class family, the daughter of Leonard and Adele Rothenberg with a brother on. Her early years were " uneventful ". After a sculptor teaching Rothenberg studied from 1962 at the Fine Arts School of Cornell University in Ithaca. She graduated in 1967 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts ( BFA ) from. In 1965 she lived meanwhile in Greece. In 1971 she married the sculptor George Trakas from which they separated in 1979.

Rothenberg was in the late 1970s to the American artists who found an expressive, figurative painting. Already in 1979 she took at the Whitney Museum of American Art in an exhibition entitled " New Image Painting " part. In their products exported to reduced color spectrum in acrylic paints work she put in prehistoric cave painting before reminiscent animal motifs. First, with powerful, powerful brushstrokes contoured representations of horses emerged since 1973. Rothenberg took part in the 1980 Venice Biennale, 1982, she was in the Berlin exhibition Zeitgeist the only artist under 45 involved men.

Since the mid- 1990s, she retained her figurative vocabulary in, she turned but an amorphous, ambiguous and clear definitions avoidant to oil painting, which had the people to the center.

In 1989 she married the sculptor and installation artist Bruce Nauman and founded with him a ranch in Galisteo Basin in New Mexico.

Exhibitions

• 2009 Moving in Place, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas; ( 2010, Miami Art Museum )
• 2007 52nd Venice Biennale 2007 Venice Biennale
• 1992 Documenta 9, Kassel
• 1981 Susan Rothenberg, Kunsthalle Basel (also: Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main )
• 1975 Three Large Paintings, 112 Greene Street Gallery, New York

Awards

• 2003 Rolf Schock Prize for the visual arts