Susan Rothenberg, "Red" (2008), oil on canvas. Courtesy Sperone Westwater.
At Sperone Westwater, pioneer painter Susan Rothenberg exhibits new works on canvas that depict fragmented compositions of the human body. The thickly applied oil paintings are a departure from recent imagery influenced by the Season 3 artist’s physical surroundings in the New Mexico desert.
Though referencing the human form, Rothenberg’s favored minimal, expressionist mark-making here articulates “disembodied puppet legs, heads and arms to demonstrate how the representation of the figure can be transformed into a study of space and form.”
The exhibit opens February 19 and runs through April 11.
