Dorothea Rockburne
Rockburne in Speaking Portraits
BornOctober 18, 1932
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
EducationBlack Mountain College
Known forMathematician, Astronomer, Abstract Artist
Websitedorothearockburne.com

Dorothea Rockburne DFA (born c. 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."[1] Rockburne's attraction to Mannerism has also influenced her work.[2]

Career

In 1950 Rockburne moved to the United States to attend Black Mountain College,[3] 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]

Balance (1985) at the Whitney Museum in 2023

Throughout her career, she created paintings that expressed mathematical concepts.[1] In 1958, a solo show of her work was critically and financially successful but deemed "not good enough" by Rockburne herself.[1] 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.[1] Bykert Gallery, in New York, which also represented Chuck Close and Brice Marden, began showing her work in 1970.[1] 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, N.Y., 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)
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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.

Awards and honors

Exhibitions

Select solo exhibitions

  • 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 Donné 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

Works

  • 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.
  • Locus. 1972. Series of six relief etching and aquatints on folded paper. Museum of Modern Art, New York.
  • Golden Section Painting #6. 1975. Kraft paper and blue pencil on linen. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor.[15]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Works in Progress". The New York Times. 2015-05-15. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  2. ↑ Bui, Phong (October 2007). "Isabelle Dervaux and Dorothea Rockburne with Phong Bui". The Brooklyn Rail.
  3. ↑ "Error 404 page". Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center.
  4. ↑ Chadwick, Whitney (2002). Women, Art, and Society. London: Thames & Hudson. p. 345. ISBN 0-500-20354-7.
  5. 1 2 3 Swartz, Anna K. (16 February 2015). "Rockburne, Dorothea". Grove Art Online. doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T2274701.
  6. ↑ Lovatt, Anna (2007). "Dorothea Rockburne: Intersection". October. 122: 31–52. doi:10.1162/octo.2007.122.1.31. JSTOR 40368488. S2CID 57558358.
  7. ↑ "Artists". www.moma.org. Moma. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
  8. ↑ "A Gift of Knowing: The Art of Dorothea Rockburne". community.bowdoin.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-05-21. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  9. ↑ "EDUCATION". dorothea-rockburne. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  10. ↑ Karen Rosenberg, "Mathematical Ratios, Papered, Folded and Cut" (review of exhibition), The New York Times, Dec. 12, 2013.
  11. ↑ "NYSS | Dorothea Rockburne". Archived from the original on 2014-11-08. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
  12. ↑ ArtFacts. "Dorothea Rockburne - Artist". ArtFacts.
  13. ↑ "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope | University of Michigan Museum of Art". umma.umich.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  14. ↑ "Exchange: Fire Engine Red". exchange.umma.umich.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  15. ↑ "Exchange: Golden Section Painting #6". exchange.umma.umich.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
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