Susan Rothenburg
American|
Susan Rothenberg (American, born 1945) was a contemporary painter who became renowned in the 1970s for powerful, emblematic horse images that fused abstraction and representation. Her early, often large-scale compositions brought figuration back into dialogue with Minimalist and post-Minimalist aesthetics, without losing emotional intensity. Over the decades she broadened her imagery beyond horses into fragmented bodies, movement studies, and psychologically charged forms, while keeping a distinctive, tactile paint surface. Rothenberg’s work has been widely exhibited and is held in major museum collections, and she is recognised as a pivotal figure in late-20th-century American painting.