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DOROTHEA ROCKBURNE: Giotto's Angels and Knots,

October 15, 2021 - January 8, 2022

DOROTHEA ROCKBURNE: Giotto's Angels and Knots

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    DOROTHEA ROCKBURNE, Giotto's Angels and Knots

    "As [Rockburne] turns 89, you would expect her paintings and works on paper to express an old master style. Instead, she has introduced four new bodies of work that reveal, deep down, she’s still young at heart."

    David Nolan Gallery is pleased to announce the gallery's first solo exhibition with Dorothea Rockburne. Giotto's Angels and Knots will be on view from October 15 to December 23, 2021. A catalogue with texts by Dorothea Rockburne, Phyllis Tuchman and David Anfam accompanies the exhibition.

    In her essay for the exhibition catalogue, Phyllis Tuchman writes:

    "Dorothea Rockburne has been at the top of her game for half a century. Ever since her first solo show at the Bykert Gallery in 1970, she’s made art that’s inventive, provocative, confident, seductive, imaginative. She’s worked with materials as disparate as crude oil and gold leaf, chipboard and vellum, secco fresco and sign painters enamel paint. She’s created shaped canvases; constructed lines with colored pencil and copper wire and folded paper; and made work in sizes that are as small as 4-inches-by-6-inches and as grand as 35-square-feet overall. Just when you become captivated by her sense of color, you discover an exquisite group of all-white works. Her versatility is astounding. In the end, there is no such thing as a typical Rockburne. When you say her name, it evokes different examples of her art to different people.

    Now, for her debut solo show at David Nolan Gallery, Rockburne has confounded her admirers yet again. As she turns 89, you would expect her paintings and works on paper to express an old master style. Instead, she has introduced four new bodies of work that reveal, deep down, she’s still young at heart. Trefoil, Giotto Drawings, Blue Collages, and two freestanding sculptures are every bit as adventuresome, exploratory, and surprising, if not more so, than earlier series."

    The exhibition explores Rockburne's fascination with Giotto: "Since my early days in New York City, 1954, the paintings by Giotto in the Arena Chapel in Padua, known to me at that time only through books, have served me as a beacon of emotional truth and painterly courage," Rockburne explains. Some twenty years later, Rockburne would visit the chapel for the first time, further invigorating her practice and deepening her reverence for the sacred space. Restaging this formative experience, Rockburne masks the architectural details of the gallery space to create an immersive lapis lazuli chapel of her own, asserting her status as a master in her own right. Housed in this ultramarine installation are new series: the Giotto Drawings, the Angels and the Blue Collages, favoring contained artworks rather than the murals of the Scrovegni Chapel applied directly to the foundation. Rockburne seeks to evoke the emotional gravitas of the narrative frescoes through the geometry of circles, squiggles and drips. The works radiate with movement and energy, suggested dynamic action via gesture, angels taking flight.

    The Trefoil series expands upon Rockburne’s continued interest in knot theory, which she first encountered in Black Mountain College in 1950. So named for the ‘Trefoil knot’, these works are comprised of two elements: rectangular boards and copper wire circles. Arranged in various permutations, concentric circles disappear and reappear, emphasizing the joints that bind the knot which cannot be untied. Like the continuous nature of the knot itself, the series feels unending as Rockburne emphasizes the vast potential of its moving parts: oscillating between slick and matte surfaces, establishing and breaking compositional hierarchies between layered board and wire, and juxtaposing natural hues with vibrant bursts of insurgent color.

    As Phyllis Tuchman concludes:

    "Perhaps the biggest surprise of this solo show is that after decades making artworks, Rockburne has executed her first sculptures. The materials could not be more unorthodox: thick ropes, a galvanized steel bucket filled to its brim with water, another topped with a mirror, two bentwood chairs, automobile tires, clamps, and castors.

    They are found objects, the sort of things, though, that can, for the most part, be ordered from Amazon. They are hardly the type of cumbersome items you expect Rockburne to use to make art. But that’s part of the power of her corpus. She has put together in all sorts of combinations, stuff you might never associate with the practice of fine art. Before you put down this catalogue, look again at the ropes. They are trefoil knots."

    With unparalleled commitment and vigor, Rockburne continues to forge ahead and experiment, challenging both herself and the viewer in the process. While her ingenuity and inventiveness are on full display, she remains motivated by the very same forces that captivated her youthful artistic spirit decades ago. In an everchanging world rife with chaos, Rockburne optimistically looks to the cosmos, the spiritual unseen but felt, to rectify all that we cannot explain.

     

    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; 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, Asheville, 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 and 1977), 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.

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    • Dorothea Rockburne Trefoil 3, 2019 Aquacryl paint, glue, oil stain and copper wire on layered boards 20 x 32 x 1 3/8 in (50.8 x 81.3 x 3.5 cm)
      Dorothea Rockburne
      Trefoil 3, 2019
      Aquacryl paint, glue, oil stain and copper wire on layered boards
      20 x 32 x 1 3/8 in (50.8 x 81.3 x 3.5 cm)
    • Dorothea Rockburne Ptah, 2021 Aquacryl, gouache, and papyrus on paper 30 x 23 in (76.2 x 58.4 cm)
      Dorothea Rockburne
      Ptah, 2021
      Aquacryl, gouache, and papyrus on paper
      30 x 23 in (76.2 x 58.4 cm)
    • Dorothea Rockburne Trefoil 7, 2021 Aquacryl paint, glue and copper wire on layered boards 40 x 40 x 2 in (101.6 x 101.6 x 5.1 cm)
      Dorothea Rockburne
      Trefoil 7, 2021
      Aquacryl paint, glue and copper wire on layered boards
      40 x 40 x 2 in (101.6 x 101.6 x 5.1 cm)
    • Dorothea Rockburne Trefoil 8, 2021 Aquacryl paint, glue and copper wire on layered boards 20 x 29 3/4 x 1 3/4 in (50.8 x 75.6 x 4.4 cm)
      Dorothea Rockburne
      Trefoil 8, 2021
      Aquacryl paint, glue and copper wire on layered boards
      20 x 29 3/4 x 1 3/4 in (50.8 x 75.6 x 4.4 cm)
    • Dorothea Rockburne Trefoil 1, 2019 Aquacryl paint, glue and copper wire on layered boards 15 x 24 x 1 1/2 in (38.1 x 61 x 3.8 cm)
      Dorothea Rockburne
      Trefoil 1, 2019
      Aquacryl paint, glue and copper wire on layered boards
      15 x 24 x 1 1/2 in (38.1 x 61 x 3.8 cm)
    • Dorothea Rockburne Trefoil 4, 2020 Aquacryl paint, glue and copper wire on layered boards 30 x 30 x 1 1/2 in (76.2 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm)
      Dorothea Rockburne
      Trefoil 4, 2020
      Aquacryl paint, glue and copper wire on layered boards
      30 x 30 x 1 1/2 in (76.2 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm)
    • Dorothea Rockburne Trefoil 2, 2019 Aquacryl paint, glue and copper wire on layered boards 20 x 30 x 1 3/4 in (50.8 x 76.2 x 4.4 cm)
      Dorothea Rockburne
      Trefoil 2, 2019
      Aquacryl paint, glue and copper wire on layered boards
      20 x 30 x 1 3/4 in (50.8 x 76.2 x 4.4 cm)
    • Dorothea Rockburne Blue Collage, Archimedes' Leaver, 2019 enamel paint, Aquacryl, watercolor wax crayon, and gesso on paper mounted on board in artist's frame 25 3/4 x 17 in (65.4 x 43.2 cm) framed: 26 3/8 x 17 3/4 x 1 1/2 in (66.8 x 44.9 x 3.8 cm)
      Dorothea Rockburne
      Blue Collage, Archimedes' Leaver, 2019
      enamel paint, Aquacryl, watercolor wax crayon, and gesso on paper mounted on board in artist's frame
      25 3/4 x 17 in (65.4 x 43.2 cm)
      framed: 26 3/8 x 17 3/4 x 1 1/2 in (66.8 x 44.9 x 3.8 cm)
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    • Dorothea Rockburne Blue Collage, Hello Galileo, 2019 watercolor wax crayon on paper mounted on board in artist's frame 21 x 17 in (53.3 x 43.2 cm) framed: 21 3/4 x 17 3/4 x 1 1/2 in (55.2 x 44.9 x 3.8 cm)
      Dorothea Rockburne
      Blue Collage, Hello Galileo, 2019
      watercolor wax crayon on paper mounted on board in artist's frame
      21 x 17 in (53.3 x 43.2 cm)
      framed: 21 3/4 x 17 3/4 x 1 1/2 in (55.2 x 44.9 x 3.8 cm)
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    • Dorothea Rockburne Blue Collage, Linear Alignment, 2019 watercolor wax crayon on paper mounted on board in artist's frame 21 x 17 in (53.3 x 43.2 cm) framed: 21 7/8 x 17 3/4 x 1 1/2 in (55.4 x 44.9 x 3.8 cm)
      Dorothea Rockburne
      Blue Collage, Linear Alignment, 2019
      watercolor wax crayon on paper mounted on board in artist's frame
      21 x 17 in (53.3 x 43.2 cm)
      framed: 21 7/8 x 17 3/4 x 1 1/2 in (55.4 x 44.9 x 3.8 cm)
    • Dorothea Rockburne Blue Collage, I Am A Tree, 2021 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)
      Dorothea Rockburne
      Blue Collage, I Am A Tree, 2021
      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)
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    • Dorothea Rockburne Blue Collage, Between Socrates, 2019 watercolor wax crayon on paper mounted on board in artist's frame 20 3/4 x 18 1/4 in (52.7 x 46.4 cm) framed: 21 1/2 x 19 x 1 1/2 in (54.5 x 48.1 x 3.8 cm)
      Dorothea Rockburne
      Blue Collage, Between Socrates, 2019
      watercolor wax crayon on paper mounted on board in artist's frame
      20 3/4 x 18 1/4 in (52.7 x 46.4 cm)
      framed: 21 1/2 x 19 x 1 1/2 in (54.5 x 48.1 x 3.8 cm)
    • Dorothea Rockburne Blue Collage, Sleeping Like Spoons, 2019 enamel paint, Aquacryl, and watercolor wax crayon on paper mounted on board in artist's frame 26 3/4 x 24 in (67.9 x 61 cm) framed: 27 1/2 x 24 3/4 x 1 1/2 in (69.8 x 62.9 x 3.8 cm)
      Dorothea Rockburne
      Blue Collage, Sleeping Like Spoons, 2019
      enamel paint, Aquacryl, and watercolor wax crayon on paper mounted on board in artist's frame
      26 3/4 x 24 in (67.9 x 61 cm)
      framed: 27 1/2 x 24 3/4 x 1 1/2 in (69.8 x 62.9 x 3.8 cm)
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    • Dorothea Rockburne Blue Collage, Arcane Light II, 2018-19 enamel paint, Aquacryl, and watercolor wax crayon on paper mounted on board in artist's frame 21 3/4 x 17 in (55.2 x 43.2 cm) framed: 22 1/2 x 17 3/4 x 1 1/2 in (57.1 x 45.1 x 3.8 cm)
      Dorothea Rockburne
      Blue Collage, Arcane Light II, 2018-19
      enamel paint, Aquacryl, and watercolor wax crayon on paper mounted on board in artist's frame
      21 3/4 x 17 in (55.2 x 43.2 cm)
      framed: 22 1/2 x 17 3/4 x 1 1/2 in (57.1 x 45.1 x 3.8 cm)
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    • Dorothea Rockburne Blue Collage, Spillover, 2018-19 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)
      Dorothea Rockburne
      Blue Collage, Spillover, 2018-19
      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)
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    • Dorothea Rockburne Blue Collage, Arcane Light I, 2018-19 watercolor, watercolor wax crayon, and enamel paint on paper mounted on board in artist's frame 20 x 18 1/4 in (50.8 x 46.4 cm) framed: 20 7/8 x 18 7/8 x 1 1/2 in (53 x 47.9 x 3.8 cm)
      Dorothea Rockburne
      Blue Collage, Arcane Light I, 2018-19
      watercolor, watercolor wax crayon, and enamel paint on paper mounted on board in artist's frame
      20 x 18 1/4 in (50.8 x 46.4 cm)
      framed: 20 7/8 x 18 7/8 x 1 1/2 in (53 x 47.9 x 3.8 cm)
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    • Dorothea Rockburne Blue Collage, A Geometry of Time, 2019 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)
      Dorothea Rockburne
      Blue Collage, A Geometry of Time, 2019
      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)
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    • Dorothea Rockburne Angel Tracings, 2021 Aquacryl paint and gouache on paper 34 x 23 in (86.4 x 58.4 cm)
      Dorothea Rockburne
      Angel Tracings, 2021
      Aquacryl paint and gouache on paper
      34 x 23 in (86.4 x 58.4 cm)
    • Dorothea Rockburne 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)
      Dorothea Rockburne
      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)
    • Dorothea Rockburne Giotto's Kiss, 2021 Aquacryl paint and gouache on paper 30 x 23 in (76.2 x 58.4 cm) framed: 35 1/4 x 28 in (87 x 71.1 cm)
      Dorothea Rockburne
      Giotto's Kiss, 2021
      Aquacryl paint and gouache on paper
      30 x 23 in (76.2 x 58.4 cm)
      framed: 35 1/4 x 28 in (87 x 71.1 cm)
    • Dorothea Rockburne Giotto's Light, 2021 Aquacryl paint and gouache on paper 30 x 23 in (76.2 x 58.4 cm) framed: 35 1/4 x 28 in (87 x 71.1 cm)
      Dorothea Rockburne
      Giotto's Light, 2021
      Aquacryl paint and gouache on paper
      30 x 23 in (76.2 x 58.4 cm)
      framed: 35 1/4 x 28 in (87 x 71.1 cm)
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    • Dorothea Rockburne Giotto's Night, 2021 Aquacryl paint and gouache on paper 30 x 23 in (76.2 x 58.4 cm) framed: 35 1/4 x 28 in (87 x 71.1 cm)
      Dorothea Rockburne
      Giotto's Night, 2021
      Aquacryl paint and gouache on paper
      30 x 23 in (76.2 x 58.4 cm)
      framed: 35 1/4 x 28 in (87 x 71.1 cm)
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    • Dorothea Rockburne Trefoil 6, 2021 Aquacryl paint, glue and copper wire on layered boards 35 x 40 x 1 3/4 in (88.9 x 101.6 x 4.4 cm)
      Dorothea Rockburne
      Trefoil 6, 2021
      Aquacryl paint, glue and copper wire on layered boards
      35 x 40 x 1 3/4 in (88.9 x 101.6 x 4.4 cm)
    • Dorothea Rockburne 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)
      Dorothea Rockburne
      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)
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    • Dorothea Rockburne 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)
      Dorothea Rockburne
      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)
    • Dorothea Rockburne Lamenting Angels #1, 2021 Aquacryl paint and gouache on paper 41 3/4 x 22 1/2 in (106 x 57.1 cm)
      Dorothea Rockburne
      Lamenting Angels #1, 2021
      Aquacryl paint and gouache on paper
      41 3/4 x 22 1/2 in (106 x 57.1 cm)
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    • Dorothea Rockburne Lamenting Angels #2, 2021 Aquacryl paint and gouache on paper 30 x 22 1/2 in (76.2 x 57.1 cm)
      Dorothea Rockburne
      Lamenting Angels #2, 2021
      Aquacryl paint and gouache on paper
      30 x 22 1/2 in (76.2 x 57.1 cm)
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    • Dorothea Rockburne Lamenting Angels #3, 2021 Aquacryl paint, acrylic, and gouache on paper 30 x 23 in (76.2 x 58.4 cm)
      Dorothea Rockburne
      Lamenting Angels #3, 2021
      Aquacryl paint, acrylic, and gouache on paper
      30 x 23 in (76.2 x 58.4 cm)
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  • Press

    • News

      Review | Dorothea Rockburne: Giotto's Angels and Knots

      Jan Avgikos · Artforum February 22, 2022
      Interrogating those intersections where the body, the object, and the space that contains them meet, Dorothea Rockburne has long sought to assert the singularity of her art. Early on, her...
    • News

      Dorothea Rockburne: Giotto's Angels & Knots

      Charles Schultz · The Brooklyn Rail December 11, 2021
      In the 1970s Dorothea Rockburne traveled to Italy and visited the Scrovegni chapel in Padua. From books she learned about the chapel’s history and its numinous frescoes painted by Giotto,...
    • News

      One Work: Dorothea Rockburne's "Interchange"

      David Ebony · Art in America December 9, 2021
      Carefully calibrated geometry, combined with refined and sumptuous color relationships, is a hallmark of Dorothea Rockburne ’s art. “Giotto’s Angels and Knots,” an exhibition at David Nolan Gallery , features...
    • News

      Dorothea Rockburne at David Nolan Gallery

      Jonathan Goodman · Whitehot Magazine November 15, 2021
      Dorothea Rockburne’s show, “Giotto’s Angels and Knots,” brilliantly reprises her long interest in Giotto, the painter active in the late Middle Ages, and, equally important, her work with mathematics, as...
  • Publications
    • Dorothea Rockburne: Giotto's Angels & Knots

      Dorothea Rockburne: Giotto's Angels & Knots

      2021 Read more
  • Artist
    • DOROTHEA ROCKBURNE

      DOROTHEA ROCKBURNE

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