Dorothea Rockburne

(Canadian, born 1932)

mozart and mozart upside down and backward by dorothea rockburne

Dorothea Rockburne

Mozart and Mozart Upside Down and Backward, 1993

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Biography

Timeline

1932
Born: Montreal, Canada
1950 - 1955
Studied at Black Mountain College, Asheville, NC
1955
Moved to New York City, NY
1957
Walter Gutman Emerging Artist Award
1971
First solo exhibition at the Bykert Gallery
1972
Guggenheim Fellowship
Painting Award, The Art Institute of Chicago Guggenheim Fellowship, Sculpture
1974
National Endowment for the Arts Award
1976
The Art Institute of Chicago, Witowsky Painting Award
1984
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Visiting Artist
1985
Brandeis University, Creative Arts Award
Visiting Lecturer, "Working with the Golden Section", American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy.

Exhibitions

2013
“Dorothea Rockburne: Drawing Which Makes Itself,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
“Dorothea Rockburne: Indication Drawings from the Drawing Which Makes Itself series,” Jill Newhouse, New York, NY (solo)
2012
Weights & Measures, Eleven Rivington, New York, NY
We had to destroy it in order to save it’ Painting in New York in the 1970s, Christie’s 20th Floor Private Sale Galleries, New York, NY
Materializing ‘Six Years’: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art, Brooklyn Museum, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn, NY
The Annual: 2012, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
“Dorothea Rockburne: Works 1967 – 1972,” Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue) (solo)
2011 - 2012
Time Out of Mind, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
Contemporary Drawings from the Irving Stenn Jr. Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Dorothea Rockburne: In My Mind’s Eye, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; traveled to Musée dex Beaux Arts, Montreal, Canada (solo)

Public Collections

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Auckland City Art Museum, Auckland, New Zealand
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Aaron Kozak & Company
Aacken Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
Highhold International, South Africa
J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, CA

Literature

2009
Murray, Ann H. Dorothea Rockburne: Astronomy Drawings. Norton, MA: Beard Gallery, Wheaton College, 2009
2007
Dervaux, Isabelle. Drawing Connections: Baselitz, Kelly, Penone, Rockburne, and the Old Masters. New York: The Morgan Library and Museum, 2007
1999
Dorothea Rockburne : ten years of astronomy drawings 1990-2000. New York: Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, 1999
1994
Dorothea Rockburne; Painting from Nature. New York: André Emmerich Gallery, 1994
1989
Yau, John. Dorothea Rockburne New Work: Cut-Ins. New York: André Emmerich Gallery, 1989
Dorothea Rockburne. Waltham, MA: Rose Art Museum s, 1989
1981
Dorothea Rockburne: Egyptian Paintings and White Angels. New York: Xavier Fourcade, Inc., 1981
1978
Marlais, Michael. Dorothea Rockburne Drawing: Structure and Curve. New York: John Weber Galleryk, 1978.
1976
Spector, Naomi. Dorothea Rockburne: Working with the Golden Section, 1974-76. New York: John Weber Gallery, 1976.