"At this time in my life, I’m ready to accept or own a kind of romance and melancholy or melodrama that I wasn’t ready to reveal before. It was always there in my inner life as an artist, but I was too afraid to share it."
"Accident #2" (1993-1994)
"Accident #2," 1993-1994
Oil on canvas, 66 x 125 inches
The Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, California
© 2005 Susan Rothenberg/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York
Oil on canvas, 66 x 125 inches
The Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, California
© 2005 Susan Rothenberg/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York
"A lot of my work is about melodrama. I wait for Bruce to fall off a horse and then I go, 'Oh, okay, the horse’s legs were there, the fence post was there, his hat flew off there...'"
- Susan Rothenberg
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