The camera is trained on a paper scrim shot in negative. For a moment, a white field fills the frame, its expanse perfectly monochrome save a tremor of scratch and grain. Then the space is…
By the time Dorothea Rockburne had her first solo exhibition, in 1970, she had already contributed to critical developments in the postwar avant-garde. As a student at Black Mountain College in the …
When Dorothea Rockburne, currently the subject of a retrospective at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, first began making her paintings and works on paper in the 1950s, she never thought that h…