"I still think the social function of art is that kind of negative aesthetic. Otherwise there’s no social function for it."
"Galisteo Creek" (1992)
"Galisteo Creek," 1992
Oil on canvas, 112 x 148 inches
Collection the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
© 2005 Susan Rothenberg/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York
Oil on canvas, 112 x 148 inches
Collection the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
© 2005 Susan Rothenberg/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York
"I’m pretty interested in this idea of looking down at a scene, getting distance from it and looking down upon it I’m almost positive it’s from my walks and the geography here- the creek bed and the arroyos. Sometimes I’m above, and sometimes if I’m walking in the creek I can’t see the clouds because the cliffs cut them off. And I can’t wait sometimes to get up, especially in the monsoon season. Then I see these tower-of-power clouds. And other times I’m on the top walking along, looking down into these bays, these meadows that have happened through erosion in the creek bed."
- Susan Rothenberg



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