INSTALLATIONS

BEIJING
"Barbara Rosenthal: Self-Devolution"
Pickled Art Centre, Beijing
June 16-28, 2006

Large poster used to announce Barbara Rosenthal's show in Beijing, 2006. Copies of the poster were placarded around the arts districts.

Barbara Rosenthal standing in the Pickled Art Centre, Beijing, dwarfed by her enormous, delicate, wafting installation.
Barbara Rosenthal standing in the Pickled Art Centre, Beijing, dwarfed by her enormous, delicate, wafting installation.


Digital and scanned gelatin photographic prints on mylar and vinyl, grommeted and roped. Photos by Jenny Irish, June, 2006.

Link to NYArts Magazine article about Barbara Rosenthal Red Gate Gallery Residency in China.

MOSCOW
"Existential Cartoons"
L-Gallery, Moscow
June 1-15, 2007






REVIEWS of "Existential Cartoons"
ArtFairsInternational Magazine (English)
Nov-Dec 2007
Russian Art Times (Russian)
June 2007
"Existential Cartoons: Barbara Rosenthal in Moscow"
Articles by Sergei Yerkov

 

NEW YORK
"Barbara Rosenthal Contemplates Suicide”
Bathroom Installation, Pool Art Fair
Chelsea Hotel, NYC.


 

 

NEW YORK
"Barbara Rosenthal--Photography as Architecture"
Westbeth Gallery, NYC.



Swimmer in the Universe / Scientists are the Priests and Prophets
, c.1990, 67"x67" Nine separtely framed 22"x22" BW Gelatin-Silver Photographs with text-on-acetate-produced photograms.
Texts from Barbara Rosenthal Provocation Cards: "Scientists are the Priests and Prophets"; "Homo Futurus Might Not Be Human"; "Time Plays Tricks"; "God is the Idol of Science / God is the Icon of Science / God is the False Prophet of Science"; "The Flaw of the Ideal is That It Does Not Encounter Time or Touch"; "Reality is Only Shared Illusion / Unreal = Private Sensation"; "There Will Never Be a Future, There Will Only Be Another Present"; "Life Has a Life of Its Own"; "The Past is Only a Model of/in the Present"; "Only That Which Exists is Perfect Enough to Break into Reality / What is Truly Perfect, Therefore, is What Truly Exists"; etc.
swimmer model: Bill Creston

 

NEW YORK
"Car Coming" "Art of the Crash", Fusion Art Museum, NYC.

NEW JERSEY
"Barbara Rosenthal--News Barriers"
Hudson Guild Farm
Andover, NJ.


Barbara Rosenthal, "News Corral"
Barbara Rosenthal, "News Wall"


NEW YORK
"Barbara Rosenthal--Hanging Scrap Paper"
International Paper Show
Monique Goldstrom Gallery, NYC.
 

 

PITTSBURGH
"Self-Portrait Room"
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
May 15, 1968

Three photos depicting the artist in her installtion, "Self-Portrait Room," 1968, when she devised this project, having not been aware of the nacent performance or installation genres that might have been brewing elsewhere at the time.