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Born 1932 Verdun, Canada. Known for: Geometric abstraction, collage, sculpture.
Fascinated by both art and science, especially astronomy and astrophysics, Dorothea Rockburne believes that art and science originate from a single source and are informed by the same reality. In her... Read full biography
Fascinated by both art and science, especially astronomy and astrophysics, Dorothea Rockburne believes that art and science originate from a single source and are informed by the same reality. In her paintings, many which look like swirling astrological subjects, she expresses her sense of harmony,... Read full biography
Fascinated by both art and science, especially astronomy and astrophysics, Dorothea Rockburne believes that art and science originate from a single source and are informed by the same reality. In her paintings, many which look like swirling astrological subjects, she expresses her sense of harmony, correspondences and patterns that she regards as ultimate beauty with metaphysical significance. Some of her work is also described as minimalist and geometric because she has folded canvas into... Read full biography
Fascinated by both art and science, especially astronomy and astrophysics, Dorothea Rockburne believes that art and science originate from a single source and are informed by the same reality. In her paintings, many which look like swirling astrological subjects, she expresses her sense of harmony, correspondences and patterns that she regards as ultimate beauty with metaphysical significance. Some of her work is also described as minimalist and geometric because she has folded canvas into parallelograms and triangles with variations of surface texture. In the 1970s and 1980s, Rockburne relied upon the Fibonacci series, a set theory of mathematics of chance as taught by the French mathematician Henri Poincare. She was also inspired by the... Read full biography
Fascinated by both art and science, especially astronomy and astrophysics, Dorothea Rockburne believes that art and science originate from a single source and are informed by the same reality. In her paintings, many which look like swirling astrological subjects, she expresses her sense of harmony, correspondences and patterns that she regards as ultimate beauty with metaphysical significance. Some of her work is also described as minimalist and geometric because she has folded canvas into parallelograms and triangles with variations of surface texture. In the 1970s and 1980s, Rockburne relied upon the Fibonacci series, a set theory of mathematics of chance as taught by the French mathematician Henri Poincare. She was also inspired by the early Italian painters Giotto and Ambrogio Lorenzetti. A Canadian, she attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Montreal throughout her child... Read full biography
Dorothea Rockburne - Artist Info
About Dorothea Rockburne: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (5)
All MuseumsButler Institute of American Art
524 Wick Avenue
Youngstown, OH 44502Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood Street
Dallas, TX 75201Neuberger Museum of Art
Suny, Purchase College
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577-1400University of Michigan Museum of Art, UMMA
525 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1354