Deborah Rosenthal “Anecdote: Paintings”
Bowery Gallery
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Bowery present an exhibition of new paintings in oil and gouache by Deborah Rosenthal. In these pictures, imagined motifs of hilly land, architectural columns, human figures, and arrangements of jars or vases proliferate in rhythms and tensions; they drift or plunge, opposing multitudes of lines and the singular, defining contour. At the root of these compositions is the artist’s longstanding pursuit of form, newly spurred by Islamic stone carving, Roman twisted columns, the shape of human solitude in a large landscape, the plain, curt words from Wallace Stevens’ “Anecdote of the Jar”:
I placed a jar in Tennessee
And round it was, upon a hill.
It made the slovenly wilderness
Surround that hill.
Rosenthal’s work has been praised in the pages of The New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, The New Yorker, Modern Painters, artcritical.com, and Art in America, among other publications.
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Schedule
from February 01, 2022 to February 26, 2022
Opening Reception on 2022-02-03 from 17:00 to 20:00