For Immediate Release
February 2012

Deborah Rosenthal
Journeys and Topologies

January 31 - February 25, 2012
Opening Reception: 5-8pm on Thursday, February 2, 2012

Bowery Gallery is pleased to present Journeys and Topologies, an exhibition of recent paintings by Deborah Rosenthal. The exhibition runs from January 31 to February 25. An opening reception will be held Thursday, February 2 from 5 to 8 pm. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday 11 am to 6 pm.

Several kinds of invented compositions are featured in the exhibition. In the small paintings of the Journeys series, Rosenthal inscribes human figures within linear armatures on opaquely painted grounds. The short and rhythmical lines and intervals in these compositions reflect their origins in the rhythms and scale of art songs, particularly Schubert's "Die Winterreise" (Winter Journey). The Topologies are invented landscapes with forms evoking mountainous terrain. Large reciprocal curves or stark oppositions of dark and light frame the tensions that carry us through the imagined space.

Rosenthal has shown at the Bowery Gallery since 1984. Her paintings and prints have also been shown widely in venues including the Painting Center, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, and the Francis Naumann Gallery in New York; at the University of Richmond Museums in Virginia; at the Huntington Museum in West Virginia; and in university galleries nationally. Her 1998 solo exhibition, "Eve's Vocabulary," traveled from Hebrew Union College in New York to Yale University and to the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art.

Rosenthal's work has been discussed and reproduced in the pages of many publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art in America, Modern Painters, the New York Sun, and on artcritical.com. A suite of her prints appeared, with texts by Jed Perl, in the Yale Review. Her work, including her stained-glass windows, was the subject of a segment on PBS-TV.

A recipient of an NEA Critic's Grant, Rosenthal has published extensively on art, in such publications as Arts, Art in America, Artforum, Modern Painters, The New Criterion, and Drawing, among others. She is a Consulting Editor for Arcade Publishing, working on the series of books called Artists and Art.

For more information contact the gallery at 646-230-6655 or bowerygallery@earthlink.net

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