Daniel Kenneth Rothbart ( Stanford, CA, January 29, 1966), is an artist and writer.

Early life

Rothbart was born in Stanford, California and raised in

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. He is the son of psychologists Myron Rothbart and Mary K. Rothbart. He studied sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design and Columbia University.

Art and writing

Daniel Rothbart is an artist and writer whose work explores the relationship between nature, urban postmodern identity and metaphysics. In the words of critic John Ash, "What he presents is the visual aspect of an imaginary 'ritual without theology' (to use his own phrase)." Art theorist and curator Enrico Pedrini wrote, "His world of myth prompts one to reconsider the sacred as a point of interaction where icons and symbols converge and undergo changes of meaning." Daniel Rothbart - Water Clocks

Rothbart has exhibited at Andrea Meislin Gallery, Exit Art, WhiteBox, and the LAB Gallery in New York City along with the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill, New York and the Artists Residence Gallery in Herzliya, Israel. Studio projects include ''Inscrutable Theologies'', Aachen, Germany; ''STREAMING II'', The Frank Institute @ CR10, Linlithgo, New York; The Rumsey Street Project, Grand Rapids, Michigan; ''Air de Venise'', Venice, Italy; ''WATERLINES'', Galerie Depardieu, Nice, France; La Napoule Art Foundation, Mandelieu-la-Napoule, France. and ''RamleAnthropocene'', the Pool of the Arches, Center for Contemporary Art Ramle CACR, Ramle, Israel. He exhibited in ''Ventisette artisti e una rivista'',

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, Rome, Italy; Citydrift, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York; ''But I’m an American'', Belgrade Cultural Centre, Serbia; ''The End of Language: Wittgenstein Reimagined'', Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia; and ''Meditation , Mediation'', Life is Art Foundation, New Orleans, Louisiana. Rothbart was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts grant and a residency at La Napoule Art Foundation in 2002. He was awarded a New York State Council on the Arts grant and a residency at The Artists' Residence, Herzliya, Israel in 2023. His work is the subject of a monograph by Enrico Pedrini published in 2010 by Ulisse e Calipso of Naples, Italy. Rothbart's work can be found in public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 2015, Rothbart wrote an essay and four commentaries on the theme of water-based performance as the lead section of '' PAJ'' 111, published by MIT Press. Rothbart is the author of three books. ''Jewish Metaphysics as Generative Principle in American Art'' (1994) explores the relationship between Jewish culture and post-war American abstraction. ''The Story of the Phoenix'' (1999) examines American cultural identity, Hollywood, and the transmutation of meaning through digital collages inhabited by his sculpture. ''Seeing Naples: Reports from the Shadow of Vesuvius'' (2018) is a book of travel writing inspired by Rothbart's experiences as a Fulbright scholar in Naples during the early 1990s. The work combines personal narrative with stories from the city's history, ancient and modern, that speak to Neapolitan values and culture. Poet and cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum observes "Rothbart's narrative of Naples bears the freight of a melancholy intrinsic to the act of paying attention to a city that is older and wiser than we will ever live to be." ote 20

Books

Richard Milazzo (Writer/Poet) and Daniel Rothbart (Writer/Collagist), ''More Fugitive Than Light: Poems of Rome, Venice, Paris, 2016-2017'' (Tsukuda Island Press, 2024). Cover of Seeing Naples

''Seeing Naples: Reports from the Shadow of Vesuvius (

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, 2018).'' ''The Story of the Phoenix'' (Ulisse e Calipso, 1999). ''Jewish Metaphysics as Generative Principle in American Art'' (Ulisse e Calipso, 1994).

Bibliography

Enrico Pedrini,

John Perreault John Lucas Perreault ( New York, New York, August 26, 1937 – September 6, 2015, New York, New York) was a poet, art curator, art critic and artist. Early life Perreault was born in Manhattan and raised in Belmar and other towns in New Jersey. ...

, Varda Genossar (Writers), and Daniel Rothbart (Artist, Interviewee), ''Daniel Rothbart: Works 1988 – 2009'', Naples: Ulisse e Calipso, 2010. Simonetta Lux and Şükran Moral, ''Arte ipercontemporanea''. ''Un certo loro sguardo... Ulteriori protocolli dell'arte contemporanea'', Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2006. Carla Subrizi (Writer) and Daniel Rothbart (Artist, Book Designer), ''Worlds'', Rome: Lee Arthur Studio (New York, N.Y.), Galleria Planita (Rome, Italy), 1994.

References

External links

Daniel Rothbart
Official site
Daniel Rothbart
on YouTube
“''Seeing Naples at Hudson Hall.''”
''The Roundtable''. WAMC Northeast Public Radio, April 3, 2019. Wisniewski, John
''Unveiling the RamleAnthropocene: The Artistic Vision of Daniel Rothbart''
''Cultured Focus'', January 2024. Marks Eglash, Ruth
''From New York to Ramle – modern art in an ancient setting puts Israeli city on the map''
''Jewish Insider'', October 2023. De Leonardis, Manuela
''Napoli, una teatrale quotidianità tra sguardi e souvenir''
''Il Manifesto'', October 2018. Notte, Riccardo

''Sdefinizioni Art Mag'', January 2019. Perreault, John
''Daniel Rothbart, The Space @ Media Triangle''
''Sculpture Magazine'', May 2003. Moral, Sukran
''Rothbart dalla parte di Moral''
''Luxflux'', July 2003. {{DEFAULTSORT:Rothbart, Daniel 1966 births Living people Writers from California Artists from California Rhode Island School of Design alumni Columbia University School of the Arts alumni 21st-century American Jews American male artists Jewish sculptors Jewish American artists American people of Russian-Jewish descent American collage artists American postmodern artists American conceptual artists American contemporary artists American installation artists Male sculptors 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers American experimental filmmakers American mixed-media artists Recycled art artists