Judith Rothschild: Image and Abstraction - Softcover

Karen Wilkin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0970425775 ISBN 13: 9780970425775

Publisher: Gallery, 2002

Synopsis

This small retrospective highlights a selection of works that span the 50-year career of Judith Rothschild, from early gouaches and paintings that were exhibited during her 20s to a selection of later paintings. As a student of Hans Hofmann, Rothschild’s early works reflect a young woman who was immersed in the vanguard of abstraction at a pivotal moment, just as it was becoming airborne; the strengths of this show reside in small gouaches whose contemplative equilibrium allude to a distillation of experience. They are filled with floating ellipses, and geometries which float on warm, white grounds, sliced by the thinnest of black lines. The artist’s decisions seem to be effortlessly on course, a well-tempered performance affecting a sense of self-containment and openness. Other early works based on organic forms are inventively constructed, with deep reds and earth tones, and creamy white shapes contain the surprises of unpredictable variety within the frame.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gallery
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0970425775
• ISBN 13: 9780970425775
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 36