Daniel Rothbart
Daniel Kenneth Rothbart, born January 29, 1966, in Stanford, California, is an artist and writer who grew up in Eugene, Oregon. He is the son of psychologists Myron and Mary K. Rothbart. He studied sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design and at Columbia University.
Rothbart’s art explores the relationship between nature, urban postmodern life, and metaphysics. Critics describe his work as the visual side of an imaginary ritual without theology, and as a myth-filled world where icons and symbols change meaning.
He has shown his work in New York at venues like Andrea Meislin Gallery, Exit Art, WhiteBox, and LAB, as well as at institutions in Peekskill, Israel, Italy, France, and Serbia. Notable studio projects include Inscrutable Theologies, STREAMING II, The Rumsey Street Project, Air de Venise, WATERLINES, La Napoule Art Foundation, and RamleAnthropocene.
Rothbart has received a New York Foundation for the Arts grant (2002) and a residency at La Napoule Art Foundation, along with a New York State Council on the Arts grant and a residency at The Artists’ Residence in Herzliya (2023). A monograph on his work by Enrico Pedrini was published in 2010.
His work is in public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has written three books: Jewish Metaphysics as Generative Principle in American Art (1994); The Story of the Phoenix (1999); Seeing Naples: Reports from the Shadow of Vesuvius (2018). In 2015 he contributed essays and four commentaries on water-based performance to PAJ 111, published by MIT Press.
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