Untitled
1984
In the mid 1970s Rothenberg and many of her young peers turned from minimalist training to explore personal imagery and expressive techniques. Rothenberg resited detailed representations, preferring to keep her motif as suggestive and uncertain as the style in which it was rendered. The person in this drawing is reduced to a compressed, truncated silhouette, evokin anxious isolation. The piece has a very tactile quality, and vigorous erasing has pulled loose countless feathery strands.
Charcoal on paper
50 1/8 x 38 1/4 in. (127.3 x 97.1 cm)
Mary Arrington Small Estate Acquisition Fund
85.58
Provenance: Willard Gallery, Inc., New York City; Purchased with funds from the estate of Mary Arrington Small, April 5, 1985