Wild Ride: Susan Rothenberg 1945–2020

Susan Rothenberg
The horse paintings were a game changer, although Susan certainly got tired of hearing about them. Every time she spoke of them as “antiques” or “dinosaurs” (a witty reference to the fact that horses are descended from creatures that lived in the age of dinosaurs), I would reconstruct in my mind why in the mid-1970s we were so entranced by those horses. First of all, they were big and raw looking. They somehow felt alive. If the flat abstract Color Field