Genre
Painting, drawing, collages. Geometric Abstraction.
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Born 1934. Lives and works in New York.
Attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Montréal and studied at the Black Mountain School in North Carolina in the 1950s.
Some paintings look like swirling astrological subjects. Rockburne expresses her sense of harmony, correspondences and patterns with metaphysical significance being fascinated by astronomy and astrophysics. Some of her work is also described as minimalist and geometric because she has folded canvas into parallelograms and triangles with variations of surface texture.
Solo exhibitions (selection) 2000 | New York, Lawrence Rubin, Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, Ten Years of Astronomy Drawings 1990 - 2000 | 1996 | Portland, ME, Portland Museum of Art,
Dorothea Rockburne: Visible Structure | 1995 | New York, East Hampton, Guild Hall Museum | 1994 | New York, André Emmerich Gallery,
Painting from Nature | 1989 | Waltham, MA, Brandeis University,
Rose Art Museum, Painting Retrospective | | New York, André Emmerich Gallery,
Dorothea Rockburne, New Work: Cut-Ins | 1988 | New York, André Emmerich Gallery,
New Paintings: Pascal and Other Concerns | 1986 | New York, Xavier Fourcade,
A Personal Selection: Paintings, 1968 - 1986 | 1981 | New York, The Museum of Modern Art,
Dorothea Rockburne: Locus | 1978 | New York, John Weber Gallery, Drawing: Structure & Curve | 1973, 1972 | New York, Bykert Gallery | 1971 | Paris, Sonnabend Gallery | 1970 | New York, Bykert Gallery |
Collections (selection)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Auckland City Art Museum, Auckland
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Ludwig Museum, Aachen
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Photo by Annie Lebowitz / Courtesy Greenberg van Doren Gallery, New York
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