Marybeth Rothman
Marybeth Rothman is a contemporary US artist known for her fictional visual biographies and abstract narratives.
Combining abstraction and realism with a focus on metaphor and symbolism, she explores themes of identity using shapes inspired by nature. Her portraits are included in the landmark exhibition Modigliani and the Modern Portrait at the Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, New York.
She says: “My mixed media work is a subtle fusion of reclaimed and reimagined orphaned and digital photographs, abstract drawings, and antique ephemera. I digitally alter and combine these with layers of pigmented beeswax monotypes to add narrative texture, exaggerating, adding and subtracting physical attributes to create illusory detail and form an amalgam of a biographical detail. I develop a series by creating an imagined fellowship or community, geographic location or cultural bond for the subjects of these lost and forgotten photographs. I celebrate the human response to identify the other.”
