A Champion Seducer, 1989
water-based paint on board
framed: 56 3/4 x 93 5/8 in (144.1 x 237.6 cm)
(ROC7947)
Chaos and darkness are annihilated by light, 1988-89
watercolor and gold leaf on board
framed: 61 x 88 1/2 x 3 in (154.9 x 224.8 x 7.6 cm)
(ROC7949)
Blue Collage, I Am A Tree, 2021
signed, dated and titled lower left
enamel paint, Aquacryl, gold leaf, and watercolor wax crayon on paper mounted on board in artist's frame
24 x 21 in (61 x 53.3 cm)
framed: 24 3/4 x 21 3/4 x 1 1/2 in (62.9 x 55.2 x 3.8 cm)
(ROC8143)
Blue Collage, Spillover, 2018-19
signed and dated lower right; titled lower left
enamel paint, Aquacryl, watercolor wax crayon, and gesso on copper plate and paper mounted on board in artist's frame
25 1/2 x 22 1/2 in (64.8 x 57.1 cm)
framed: 26 1/4 x 23 1/4 x 1 1/2 in (66.5 x 58.9 x 3.8 cm)
(ROC8147)
Blue Collage, A Geometry of Time, 2019
signed and dated lower right; titled lower left
enamel paint, Aquacryl, watercolor wax crayon, and gesso on paper mounted on board in artist's frame
20 1/4 x 17 1/4 in (51.4 x 43.8 cm)
framed: 21 x 18 x 1 1/2 in (53.3 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm)
(ROC8149)
Reflections, 2021
bentwood chairs, tire, rope, mirrors, PVC flexible coupling with stainless steel clamps, and enamel paint
56 x 34 x 34 in (142.2 x 86.4 x 86.4 cm)
(ROC8183)
Interchange, 2021
galvanized steel buckets, tire, rope, mirrors, castors, PVC flexible coupling with stainless steel clamps, and water
36 x 70 x 30 in (91.4 x 177.8 x 76.2 cm)
(ROC8184)
Trefoil 5, 2021
Aquacryl paint, glue, graphite, and copper wire on layered boards
30 x 47 x 1 1/2 in (76.2 x 119.4 x 3.8 cm)
(ROC8189)
Lamenting Angels #1, 2021
Aquacryl paint and gouache on paper
41 3/4 x 22 1/2 in (106 x 57.1 cm)
(ROC8202)
Lamenting Angels #2, 2021
Aquacryl paint and gouache on paper
30 x 22 1/2 in (76.2 x 57.1 cm)
(ROC8203)
Lamenting Angels #3, 2021
Aquacryl paint, acrylic, and gouache on paper
30 x 23 in (76.2 x 58.4 cm)
(ROC8204)
Copal #3, 1975
signed, titled and dated 'Copal #3 Rockburne 75' lower right
colored pencil and copal on paper collage mounted on paperboard
collage: 19 5/8 x 15 in (49.8 x 38.1 cm)
overall: 39 1/8 x 29 in (99.4 x 73.7 cm)
framed: 40 1/2 x 30 1/2 in (102.87 x 77.47 cm)
(ROC8235)
Ideal City, 1988-89
watercolor and gold leaf on prepared acetate
81 3/8 x 57 3/8 in (206.7 x 145.7 cm)
framed: 87 x 60 in (220.98 x 152.4 cm)
(ROC8524)
Inverse # 6, 1974
signed and dated in pencil lower right recto
pen on folded paper
32 1/8 x 42 1/8 in (81.3 x 106.7 cm)
(ROC8238)
Linear Alignment 1, 2020
wartercolor crayon on rag paper, corrugated cardboard, aquacryl paint, copper wire, mounted on chipboard
20 x 25 in (50.8 x 63.5 cm)
(ROC7683)
Installation view of Domain of the Variable (1972/2018) at Dia: Beacon, New York, 2018. Photograph by Bill Jacobson Studio, New York.
Geometry of Stardust: 2.5 Ratio / Jupiter and Saturn, 2009-10
Aquacryl, Perlacryl, Titanium acrylic, and gold leaf on watercolor paper
14 1/2 x 11 in (36.8 x 27.9 cm)
Bellagio, Hale-Bopp, 1994-1998
signed and dated in pencil lower right recto
powdered pigment on gold leaf ground and watercolor sticks on papyrus and handmade paper
image: 17 1/4 x 16 3/4 in (43.8 x 42.5 cm)
sheet: 27 1/2 x 26 1/2 in (69.8 x 67.3 cm)
framed: 29 x 28 1/2 in (73.7 x 72.4 cm)
(ROC7689)
Equivalence, 1994-95
watercolor paint and watercolor sticks on three gessoed masonite panels
30 x 51 in (76.2 x 129.5 cm)
(ROC7790)
Star Formation, 1999-2000
signed and dated in pencil lower right recto
watercolor paint, watercolor sticks, and enamel paint on handmade paper
image: 9 5/8 x 7 1/2 in (24.4 x 18.9 cm)
sheet: 17 1/8 x 12 1/2 in (43.5 x 31.8 cm)
framed: 20 x 15 in (50.8 x 38.1 cm)
(ROC7734)
Complexity and Light, 1994-96
Aquacryl and colored pencil on gessoed panel
22 x 42 in (55.9 x 106.7 cm)
Tearful Sisters, 1993-94
Aquaryl and watercolor stick on handmade banana paper mounted on ragboard
11 x 8 1/2 in (27.9 x 21.6 cm)
The Plan of St. Gall, 1988-89
folded paper, watercolor, and gold leaf on ragboard
60 x 50 1/4 in (152.4 x 127.6 cm)
Oxymoron, 1987-88
oil on gessoed linen
51 7/8 x 49 3/8 x 7 in (131.8 x 125.4 x 17.8 cm)
Narcissus, 1985
oil on gessoed linen
92 1/2 x 123 x 6 3/8 in (235 x 312.4 x 16.2 cm)
Capernaum Gate, 1984
oil and gold leaf on gessoed linen
92 x 85 x 4 in (233.68 x 215.9 x 10.16)
Guardian Angel II, 1982
watercolor, pencil, vellum, glue
77 1/2 x 53 in (196.8 x 134.6 cm)
Egyptian Paintings, Scribe, 1979
gesso, oil paint on linen, glue, pencil
93 x 56 1/2 in (236.2 x 143.5 cm)
Arena V, 1978
vellum paper, Mylar tape, varnish, and colored pencil on ragboard
58 7/8 x 47 in (149.5 x 119.4 cm)
Copal VIII, 1977
kraft paper, Copal oil varnish, blue pencil, Mylar tape, and glue on ragboard
46 1/2 x 82 5/8 in (118.1 cm x 209.9 cm)
Installation view of The Golden Section paintings (1974), Musuem of Modern Art, 2013-2014
Golden Section Painting, Rectangle/Square, 1974
linen, gess, glue, varnish
63 x 80 3/4 in (160 x 205.1 cm)
Golden Section Painting: Parallelogram with 2 Small Squares, 1974
kraft paper, blue pencil, and ragboard
93 1/8 x 58 3/4 in (236.54 x 149.2)
Locus, 1972
series of six relief etching and aquatints on folded paper
each: 39 3/4 x 30 1/16in (101 x 76.4 cm)
Scalar, 1971
chipboard, crude oil, paper and nails
overall 6' 8" x 9' 6 1/2" x 3 1/2" (203.2 x 289.5 x 8.9 cm)
Intersection, 1971
crude oil, plastic, paper, and chipboard
15 x 99 x 92 in (38.1 x 251.5 x 233.7 cm)
Set, 1970
paper, chipboard, graphite, and nails on wall
dimensions variable
A, C and D from Group/And, 1970
paper, chipboard, nails, graphite
166 1/2 x 252 1/2 x 44 1/8 in (422.8 x 641.3 x 112 cm)
Tropical Tan, 1967-68
wrinkle finish on paint on steel, 4 panels
overall: 96 x 144 in (243.8 x 365.8 cm)
Dorothea Rockburne (b. 1932, Montréal, Canada) has been the subject of three significant survey exhibitions in the last decade, including Dorothea Rockburne, Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY (2018-ongoing); Dorothea Rockburne: Drawing Which Makes Itself, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2013-2014); and In My Mind’s Eye, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY (2011). Additional solo museum exhibitions include A Gift of Knowing: The Art of Dorothea Rockburne, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine (2015); Dorothea Rockburne, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (1989); and Dorothea Rockburne: Locus, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (1981), among others.
Significant group exhibitions include From Géricault to Rockburne: Selections from the Michael and Juliet Rubenstein Gift, Met Breuer, New York, NY and Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (both 2020); America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2015); Materializing ‘Six Years’: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art, Brooklyn Museum, NY (2012); On Line: Drawing Through the 20th Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2010-11); The Women of Black Mountain College, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Ashville, NC (2008-9); High Times, Hard Times, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC (2006); A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968, The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA (2003); Primarily Structural, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY (1999); Abstraction, Geometry, Painting, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (1989); Language, Drama, Source and Vision, New Museum, New York, NY (1983); 39th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (1980); Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (1979, 1977, 1973); Eight Contemporary Artists, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (1974); and Documenta 5 and 6 (1972 and1977), Kassel, Germany, among others.
Rockburne’s work is represented in prominent private and public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; and the Auckland City Art Museum, Auckland, New Zealand, among many others.
Rockburne lives and works in New York City.
