Susan Rothenberg: Unit 5 

Susan is an artist living in the isolated Midwest by herself and creating beautiful art. Through the Art 21: Memory she explains her aesthetic, and why she does what she does. I was drawn to the fact that she loves red, and identifies it as her internal palette, due to my intense love for the color Red. She also hates pure bright white, which I do too. She dirties down her colors so that the pigment is not as bright, and pure.  That makes her art look more natural, and warm. She also seems to have similarities to some of the art artists I have encountered through Art: 21. She uses free standing hands in her art work like Louise Bourgeois, and I think that they feel it creates the idea of human presence, and creates something for the audience to complete. There is a large amount of lighting in her art, which is greatly influenced by the amount of lighting her home receives in the Midwest. Personally, I think it’s brave of her to take her art so seriously, and be contempt with loneliness. As in introvert I complete understand needing to create things apart from others. However, I feel after too many years that isolation might not be healthy for her.