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The Parrish Art Museum is a great excuse to trek out to the beach, especially on a non-beach day. Nestled in Southhampton, it is soon to inhabit a nearby cornfield where it will have the impact as a kind of huge incubator of contemporary art. Its design mirrors turn of the century dairy farms, but its purpose is of a different kind of nurturing: the nurturing of the art marketplace and the artists of the South End. While it will continue to have shows like the current Dorothea Rockburne survey that fulfills part of its mission to rediscover overlooked artists, it most certainly will nurture both the established and the underrepresented. |
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“Ms. Rockburne’s work is nourished by a desire to infuse the act of painting and process of constructionist assemblage with mathematical and scientific conceptualism.”
Dorothea Rockburne, Narcissus, 1985. Oil on gessoed linen, 92 ½ x 123 x 6 ⅜ in. Private Collection, New York
Dorothea Rockburne at the Parrish Art Museum
Tony Zaza
The Parrish Art Museum is a great excuse to trek out to the beach, especially on a non-beach day. Nestled in Southhampton, it is soon to inhabit a nearby cornfield where it will have the impact as a kind of huge incubator of contemporary art. Its design mirrors turn of the century dairy farms, but its purpose is of a different kind of nurturing: the nurturing of the art marketplace and the artists of the South End. While it will continue to have shows like the current Dorothea Rockburne survey that fulfills part of its mission to rediscover overlooked artists, it most certainly will nurture both the established and the underrepresented.
Ms. Rockburne’s work is nourished by a desire to infuse the act of painting and process of constructionist assemblage with mathematical and scientific conceptualism. The result is short on theory and big on the collision of shape and color. The concurrent show at Greenberg Van Doren, back in the city, exposes the full range of productivity, her most potent works resembling the melodic compositions of early animation art.
