Rothenberg's expressive mark, typically bridging figuration and abstraction, shifts across these works to evoke such disparate
qualities as the silhouette of a dark bird at night, the flutter of gathered wings, and a luminous aquatic glow.
Though they depict perfectly quotidian things — a bathroom door, a woman's suited - up
silhouette, a group of flies — the works» faded, bruised
quality and their severely cropped and ever - shifting layers call their coherence and authority into question, positioning the images
as an event though one no longer taking place.