Rachel's profile
Rachel Rotenberg creates an aesthetic world of wood sculpture populated by sensually curving surfaces, intriguingly formed negative spaces, and forceful volumes. The artist begins her process by drawing in a sketchbook. Using sticks of cedar lumber she builds her sculptures. Evocative stains and colors are applied to the finished pieces.
Rachel Rotenberg was born in Toronto, Canada. She attended University in Toronto and New York City receiving her BFA from York University in 1981. In 1984 she moved to a studio in Williamsburg Brooklyn choosing wood as her primary medium. Rotenberg moved to Baltimore with her husband Jean-Pierre Weill , also an artist, and their five children in 1994.
She has recently been awarded grants from The Bader Foundation, the Chenven Foundation, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. In addition Rachel Rotenberg has received a Creative Baltimore Individual Artist Award, and grants from the Art Bank of Canada and the E.D. Foundation.
Rotenberg has exhibited her sculpture in the Baltimore Museum of Art. The Delaware Art Museum, McLean Project for the Arts, Vox Populi gallery and University Gallery at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Washington county Museum, Hillyer Arts Gallery in Washington DC, Marianne Boesky Gallery and Lori Bookstein Gallery in New York City and many area galleries including the Montpelier Arts Center, Fredrick’s Deplaine Visual Arts Center, Atkins Arboretum Gallery, the Decker Gallery at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore’s Creative Alliance at the Patterson and the Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, Virginia.
Rachel Rotenberg was born in Toronto, Canada. She attended University in Toronto and New York City receiving her BFA from York University in 1981. In 1984 she moved to a studio in Williamsburg Brooklyn choosing wood as her primary medium. Rotenberg moved to Baltimore with her husband Jean-Pierre Weill , also an artist, and their five children in 1994.
She has recently been awarded grants from The Bader Foundation, the Chenven Foundation, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. In addition Rachel Rotenberg has received a Creative Baltimore Individual Artist Award, and grants from the Art Bank of Canada and the E.D. Foundation.
Rotenberg has exhibited her sculpture in the Baltimore Museum of Art. The Delaware Art Museum, McLean Project for the Arts, Vox Populi gallery and University Gallery at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Washington county Museum, Hillyer Arts Gallery in Washington DC, Marianne Boesky Gallery and Lori Bookstein Gallery in New York City and many area galleries including the Montpelier Arts Center, Fredrick’s Deplaine Visual Arts Center, Atkins Arboretum Gallery, the Decker Gallery at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore’s Creative Alliance at the Patterson and the Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, Virginia.
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