Dorothea Rockburne DFA (born October 18, 1932) is an abstract painter, drawing inspiration primarily from her deep interest in mathematics and astronomy. Her work is geometric and abstract, seemingly simple but very precise to reflect the mathematical concepts she strives to concretize. "I wanted very much to see the equations I was studying, so I started making them in my studio," she has said. "I was visually solving equations."[2] Her attraction to Mannerism has also influenced her work.[3]
Throughout her career, she created paintings that expressed mathematical concepts. In 1958, a solo show of her work was critically and financially successful but deemed "not good enough" by Rockburne herself.[2] She did not publicly show her work again for more than a decade, turning her attention to dance and performance art by 1960.[5] Rockburne participated in performances at the Judson Dance Theater and took classes at the American Ballet Theatre.[5] During that time she supported her daughter, Christine, by working as a waitress and a studio manager for her friend Robert Rauschenberg.[2] Bykert Gallery, in New York, which also represented Chuck Close and Brice Marden, began showing her work in 1970.[2]
Rockburne's series of installations, Set Theories, included works such as Intersection, which attempted to merge two of her other pieces of art (Group and Disjunction) to illustrate the mathematical concept of intersection.[6] The series later led to her experimentation with new concepts and materials, such as Gold Section and carbon paper.[5] In 2011, a retrospective exhibition of her work was shown at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York, and in 2013, the Museum of Modern Art hosted a solo show of her drawings.[7]
Dorothea Rockburne: Drawing Which Makes Itself (The Museum of Modern Art)
^Karen Rosenberg, "Mathematical Ratios, Papered, Folded and Cut" (review of exhibition), The New York Times, December 12, 2013.
^. Archived from the original on 2014-11-08. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
^ArtFacts. "Dorothea Rockburne - Artist". ArtFacts. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
^"Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope | University of Michigan Museum of Art". umich.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
^"Exchange: Fire Engine Red". exchange.umma.umich.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
^"Exchange: Golden Section Painting #6". exchange.umma.umich.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
External linksedit
Official Website
Interview with Phong Bui in Brooklyn Rail from October 2007
Interview with David Levi Strauss and Christopher Bamford in Brooklyn Rail from July–August 2011
January 01, 1970
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Dorothea Rockburne DFA born October 18 1932 is an abstract painter drawing inspiration primarily from her deep interest in mathematics and astronomy Her work is geometric and abstract seemingly simple but very precise to reflect the mathematical concepts she strives to concretize I wanted very much to see the equations I was studying so I started making them in my studio she has said I was visually solving equations 2 Her attraction to Mannerism has also influenced her work 3 Dorothea RockburneRockburne in Speaking PortraitsBornOctober 18 1932 1 aged 91 Montreal Quebec CanadaEducationBlack Mountain CollegeKnown forMathematician Astronomer Abstract ArtistWebsitedorothearockburne wbr com Contents 1 Career 2 Awards and honors 3 Exhibitions 3 1 Select solo exhibitions 3 2 Select group exhibitions 4 Works 5 References 6 External linksCareer editIn 1950 Rockburne moved to the United States to attend Black Mountain College where she studied with mathematician Max Dehn a lifelong influence on her work In addition to Dehn she studied with Franz Kline Philip Guston John Cage and Merce Cunningham She also met fellow student Robert Rauschenberg In 1955 Rockburne moved to New York City where she met many of the leading artists and poets of the time She was influenced by the minimalist dances of Yvonne Rainer and the Judson Dance Theater 4 nbsp Balance 1985 at the Whitney Museum in 2023 Throughout her career she created paintings that expressed mathematical concepts In 1958 a solo show of her work was critically and financially successful but deemed not good enough by Rockburne herself 2 She did not publicly show her work again for more than a decade turning her attention to dance and performance art by 1960 5 Rockburne participated in performances at the Judson Dance Theater and took classes at the American Ballet Theatre 5 During that time she supported her daughter Christine by working as a waitress and a studio manager for her friend Robert Rauschenberg 2 Bykert Gallery in New York which also represented Chuck Close and Brice Marden began showing her work in 1970 2 Rockburne s series of installations Set Theories included works such as Intersection which attempted to merge two of her other pieces of art Group and Disjunction to illustrate the mathematical concept of intersection 6 The series later led to her experimentation with new concepts and materials such as Gold Section and carbon paper 5 In 2011 a retrospective exhibition of her work was shown at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill New York and in 2013 the Museum of Modern Art hosted a solo show of her drawings 7 Dorothea Rockburne Drawing Which Makes Itself The Museum of Modern Art nbsp https www youtube com watch v AN2DJxMLFOw Rockburne is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters National Academy of Design and The Century Association In 2016 Rockburne earned a doctorate degree at Bowdoin College In 2009 Rockburne became an Honorary Vice President of the National Association of Women Artists the first women s professional fine art organization founded in the USA citation needed Awards and honors edit2016 Bowdoin College Brunswick ME Doctorate Degree 8 2009 National Academy Museum amp School of Fine Arts Lifetime Achievement Award 2003 2007 Pollock Krasner Foundation Lee Krasner Award 2003 Art Omi International Francis J Greenberger Award 2002 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts College of Creative Studies Detroit Michigan 9 2002 National Academy of Design Pike Award for Watercolor 2002 National Academy of Design Adolph amp Clara Abrig Prize for Watercolor 2002 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant 2001 American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Art 1999 American Academy of Arts and Letters Jimmy Ernst Lifetime Achievement Award in Art 1997 Alliance for Young Artists and Writers Inc Award 1997 Artist in Residence Bellagio Study Center Italy 1991 Artist in Residence American Academy in Rome 1991 Rome Prize 1986 Bard College Annandale on Hudson New York Milton and Sally Avery Distinguished Professor 1985 Brandeis University Creative Arts Award 1984 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Visiting Artist 1976 The Art Institute of Chicago F L M Witkowsky Painting Award 1974 National Endowment for the Arts 1972 Guggenheim Fellow 1963 Walter Guttman Foundation 1957 Walter Guttman Emerging Artist Award 1950 Black Mountain College Asheville NC Entrance Scholarship Ecole des Beaux Arts Montreal Canada Merit Scholarship Montreal Museum School Montreal Canada Arthur Lismer Merit ScholarshipExhibitions editSelect solo exhibitions edit 2014 Van Doren Waxter New York NY 2013 Museum of Modern Art New York City NY 10 2013 Jill Newhouse Gallery New York NY 2013 Icehouse Studio Queens New York NY 2012 Craig F Star Gallery New York NY 2012 Art Dealer s Association of America The Park Avenue Armory New York NY 2011 Parrish Art Museum Southampton NY 2011 The Drawing Room East Hampton NY 2010 New York Studio School 11 New York NY 2003 Dieu Donne Papermill New York NY 2003 Jan Abrams Fine Art New York NY 2000 Greenberg Van Doren Gallery New York City NY 1999 Art in General New York City NY 1997 Ingrid Raab Gallery Berlin Germany 1996 Portland Museum of Art Portland ME 1995 Guild Hall Museum East Hampton NY 1994 Andre Emmerich Gallery New York NY 1992 Galleria Schema Florence Italy 1991 Andre Emmerich Gallery New York NY 1989 The Rose Art Museum Waltham MA 1988 Andre Emmerich Gallery New York NY 1987 Recent Paintings and Drawings Arts Club of Chicago Chicago IL 1985 Xavier Fourcade New York NY 1983 Galleriet Lund Lund Sweden 1982 Recent Watercolors and Drawings Margo Leavin Gallery Los Angeles CA 1981 Locus MoMA Museum of Modern Art New York City NY 12 1981 David Bellman Gallery Toronto Canada 1979 Texas Gallery Houston TX 1977 Galleria La Polena Genova Italy 1976 John Weber Gallery New York NY 1975 Galleria Schema Florence Italy 1975 Galerie Charles Kriwin Brussels Belgium 1974 Galleria Toselli Milan Italy 1973 Lisson Gallery London England 1972 Galleria Bonomo Bari Bari Italy 1972 Galleria Toselli Milan Italy 1971 Sonnabend Gallery Paris France 1970 Bykert Gallery New York NY Select group exhibitions edit 2020 University of Michigan Museum of Art Ann Arbor MI 13 2014 Paul Kasmin Gallery New York NY 2014 Gagosian Gallery Paris France 2014 The Drawing Room London England 2013 Parrish Art Museum Southampton NY 2013 Bowdoin College Museum of Art Brunswick ME 2013 Yale University Art Gallery New Haven CT 2012 The Century Association New York NY 2012 Christie s 20th Floor Private Sale Galleries New York NY 2012 Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn NY 2011 The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago IL 2011 Gagosian Gallery New York NY 2010 Museum of Modern Art New York NY 2009 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Richmond VA 2009 National Academy Museum New York NY 2008 Austin Museum of Art AMOA Austin TX 2008 Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves Porto Portugal 2007 Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles CA 2007 ARCO Arte Contemporaneo Madrid Spain 2006 National Academy of Design New York NY 2004 Greenberg Van Doren Gallery 2003 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland OH 2002 Reina Sofia Museum Madrid Spain 2001 Armory Center for the Arts Pasadena CA 2000 Neuberger Museum of Art Purchase NY 1999 Contemporary Arts Museum Houston TX 1995 The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art Ridgefield CT 1994 National Gallery of Art Washington D C 1993 Museum of Modern Art New York NY 1992 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters New York NY 1991 Centro Cultural Arte Contemporanea Mexico D F Mexico 1989 Museum of Modern Art New York NY 1988 Solomon R Guggenheim Museum New York NY 1988 The Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore MD 1987 Smithsonian Institution Washington DC 1987 National Museum of Women in the Arts Washington DC 1986 Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia PA 1983 Galleriet Lund Sweden 1983 New Museum New York NY 1982 British Museum London England 1982 Whitney Museum of American Art New York NY 1981 Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn NY 1980 Venice Biennale Venice Italy 1979 Whitney Museum of American Art New York NY 1979 Phoenix Art Museum Phoenix AZ 1977 Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago IL 1977 Museum of Modern Art New York NY 1977 National Collection of Fine Arts Smithsonian Institution Washington D C 1976 Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore MD 1975 Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington DC 1974 Institute of Contemporary Art London England 1973 Yale University Art Gallery New Haven CT 1973 San Francisco Museum of Art San Francisco CA 1973 Fogg Museum Cambridge MA 1972 Documenta 5 Kassel Germany 1971 Whitney Museum of American Art New York NY 1970 Museum of Modern Art New York NY 1952 Black Mountain College Gallery Black Mountain North CarolinaWorks editThis list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items April 2020 Fire Engine Red 1967 Wrinkle finish paint oil on aluminum University of Michigan Museum of Art Ann Arbor 14 Scalar 1971 Chipboard crude oil paper and nails Museum of Modern Art New York 1 Locus 1972 Series of six relief etching and aquatints on folded paper Museum of Modern Art New York 2 Golden Section Painting 6 1975 Kraft paper and blue pencil on linen University of Michigan Museum of Art Ann Arbor 15 References edit Biography artnet com Accessed March 22 2024 a b c d Works in Progress The New York Times 2015 05 15 ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2016 03 05 Bui Phong October 2007 Isabelle Dervaux and Dorothea Rockburne with Phong Bui The Brooklyn Rail Chadwick Whitney 2002 Women Art and Society London Thames amp Hudson p 345 ISBN 0 500 20354 7 a b c Swartz Anna K 16 February 2015 Rockburne Dorothea Grove Art Online doi 10 1093 gao 9781884446054 article T2274701 Lovatt Anna 2007 Dorothea Rockburne Intersection October 122 31 52 doi 10 1162 octo 2007 122 1 31 JSTOR 40368488 S2CID 57558358 Artists moma org Moma Retrieved October 14 2022 A Gift of Knowing The Art of Dorothea Rockburne community bowdoin edu Archived from the original on 2019 05 21 Retrieved 2018 10 11 EDUCATION dorothea rockburne Retrieved 2020 04 06 Karen Rosenberg Mathematical Ratios Papered Folded and Cut review of exhibition The New York Times December 12 2013 NYSS Dorothea Rockburne Archived from the original on 2014 11 08 Retrieved 2014 03 29 ArtFacts Dorothea Rockburne Artist ArtFacts Retrieved March 22 2024 Abstraction Color and Politics in the 60s and 70s Kaleidoscope University of Michigan Museum of Art umich edu Retrieved 2020 04 06 Exchange Fire Engine Red exchange umma umich edu Retrieved 2020 04 06 Exchange Golden Section Painting 6 exchange umma umich edu Retrieved 2020 04 06 External links editOfficial Website Brooklyn Rail interview by Bill Bartman with Klaus Kertess and Dorothea Rockburne Interview with Phong Bui in Brooklyn Rail from October 2007 Interview with David Levi Strauss and Christopher Bamford in Brooklyn Rail from July August 2011 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Dorothea Rockburne amp oldid 1215093203, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
