Deborah Rosenthal "Journeys and Topologies"
Bowery Gallery
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Several kinds of invented compositions are featured in the exhibition. In the small paintings of the Journeys series, Rosenthal inscribes human figures within linear armatures on opaquely painted grounds. The short and rhythmical lines and intervals in these compositions reflect their origins in the rhythms and scale of art songs, particularly Schubert's "Die Winterreise" (Winter Journey). The Topologies are invented landscapes with forms evoking mountainous terrain. Large reciprocal curves or stark oppositions of dark and light frame the tensions that carry us through the imagined space.
Rosenthal has shown at the Bowery Gallery since 1984. Her paintings and prints have also been shown widely in venues including the Painting Center, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, and the Francis Naumann Gallery in New York; at the University of Richmond Museums in Virginia; at the Huntington Museum in West Virginia; and in university galleries nationally. Her 1998 solo exhibition, "Eve's Vocabulary," traveled from Hebrew Union College in New York to Yale University and to the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art.
Rosenthal's work has been discussed and reproduced in the pages of many publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art in America, Modern Painters, the New York Sun, and on artcritical.com. A suite of her prints appeared, with texts by Jed Perl, in the Yale Review. Her work, including her stained-glass windows, was the subject of a segment on PBS-TV.
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Schedule
from January 31, 2012 to February 25, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-02-02 from 17:00 to 20:00