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Susan Rothenberg (Susan Charna Rothenberg) was born on 20 January, 1945 in Buffalo, New York, U.S., is an American artist (1945–2020). Discover Susan Rothenberg's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

Popular As Susan Charna Rothenberg
Occupation actress
Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 20 January 1945
Birthday 20 January
Birthplace Buffalo, New York, U.S.
Date of death 18 May, 2020
Died Place Galisteo, New Mexico, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Her husband is George Trakas (m. 1971-1979) Bruce Nauman (m. 1989)

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1945

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.

Rothenberg was born in Buffalo, New York, on January 20, 1945, the daughter of Adele (Cohen), a president of the Buffalo Red Cross, and Leonard Rothenberg, who owned a supermarket chain.

1965

In 1965, she graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

1967

In 1967, she went to Washington, D.C., and studied at George Washington University and the Corcoran Museum School.

1969

In 1969, she moved to New York, where she became a member of a dedicated community of artists.

1970

Through large acrylic paintings featuring emblematic, life-sized images of horses, largely monochromatic, she established her reputation in the New York art world in the early 1970s.

From the mid-1970s on Rothenberg has been recognized as one of the most innovative and independent artists of her period of contemporary period.

During an era when minimalism was at the forefront of the New York Art scene, she stood out because of her reintroduction of expression and figuration.

Rothenberg's horse figures of the 70s contained some degree of minimalism because of their repetitive qualities, her hectic yet loose rendering of the figures blended the earlier conventions of abstract expressionism and color field painting.

1971

Rothenberg was married to sculptor George Trakas from 1971 to 1979.

1972

The couple have a daughter, Maggie, born in 1972.

1975

Rothenberg's first solo exhibition in New York in 1975 was at the 112 Greene Street Gallery.

Consisting of three large-scale paintings of horses, it was heralded for introducing imagery into minimalist abstraction, while bringing a new sensitivity to figuration.

Critic Peter Schjeldahl called the show "a eureka," stating that "the large format of the pictures was a gesture of ambition," and that "the mere reference to something really existing was astonishing."

1976

Her 1976 work "Butterfly" was displayed in the Treaty Room of the White House during the Obama Administration.

Rothenberg's work was included in the 2022 exhibition Women Painting Women at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

1979

Rothenberg was the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant (1979), the Cornell University Alumni Award (1998), the Skowhegan Medal for Painting (1998), and Sweden's Rolf Schock Prize (2003).

1980

By the early 1980s, she was focusing on disembodied heads and body parts, and by the end of the decade she was painting complex and symbolic figurative works full of color and movement.

After moving to a ranch near Galisteo, New Mexico, her paintings reflected life in the Southwestern United States and became suffused with color.

1983

Her first major survey, initiated by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, traveled to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Carnegie Institute, and the Tate Gallery, London, among other institutions (1983–1985).

1989

She married artist Bruce Nauman in 1989.

Her relationship with Nauman, another prominent artist, has prompted more associations with Georgia O'Keeffe because of her relationship with Alfred Stieglitz.

1990

Beginning in the 1990s, she used the 'memory of observed and experienced events' (a riding accident, a near-fatal bee sting, and other events) as the inspiration for her subjects and adopted oil paint as her favored medium.

As in her earlier works, these paintings are distinguished by thickly layered, energetic brushwork and exhibit her interest in exploring the relationship between images and surface.

1992

More recent exhibitions of her work include a retrospective organized by Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York (1992–1994), which traveled to Washington, D.C., St. Louis, Chicago, and Seattle (1992); a retrospective at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Monterrey, Mexico (1996); a survey of prints and drawings presented by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University (1998); and Susan Rothenberg: Paintings from the Nineties at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1999).

2004

On the occasion of her 2004 exhibition of drawings at Sperone Westwater, Robert Storr wrote, "...fundamentally, drawing is as much a matter of evocation as it is of depiction, of identifying the primary qualities of things in the world and transposing them without a loss of quiddity. This at any rate is what drawing has been for Rothenberg."

Rothenberg's work has been the subject solo exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad.

2010

In 2010, New York Times art critic David Belcher wrote that comparisons between Rothenberg and Georgia O'Keeffe had "become hard to avoid."

From her early years in SoHo through her move to New Mexico's desert landscape, Rothenberg has remained as influenced and challenged by her physical surroundings as she is by artistic issues and personal experiences.

In addition to her earliest horse paintings, Rothenberg has taken on numerous forms as subject matter, such as dancing figures, heads and bodies, animals, and atmospheric landscapes.

Rothenberg's visceral canvases have continued to evolve, as she explores the boundary between figural representation and abstraction; her work also examines the role of color and light, and the translation of her personal experience to a painterly surface.

However, Rothenberg has challenged these comparisons to O'Keeffe, stating that they are "completely different people" with different artistic energies.

Though they both gained inspiration from the New Mexico landscape, Rothenberg's paintings contain a significantly more aggressive quality.

Although best known as a painter, Rothenberg also made crucial contributions to the medium of drawing.

2020

Rothenberg died at her home in Galisteo, New Mexico on May 18, 2020, at age 75.