ERIKA ROTHENBERG
From the artist’s website:
Born in New York City. Lives in Los Angeles.
Using words, images and diverse media, from painting to drawing to photography to large-scale public artworks and museum installations, I am passionately interested in exposing American exceptionalism (and its hubris, corruption, privilege, and prejudice) in a non-didactic and humorous way, with an intersectional feminist edge. I am not systematic, but there are recurring themes in my work such as how proud we humans are of what we think up, and how we use those ideas to destroy each other.
My work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Hirshhorn Museum, DC; Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany; and is in many private and public collections. Freedom of Expression National Monument, a giant megaphone in New York City, sponsored by Creative Time in 1984 and 2004, was featured at the Museum of The City Of New York 2017-18. House of Cards, my 1992 MoMA, New York exhibition of 90 satirical greeting cards, was recreated at Zolla Lieberman Gallery Chicago in 2015; Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles in 2016; and Susan Inglett Gallery, NY in 2018.
Greetings: Misogynist/Feminist, 2005
I was born in New York City and attended the University of Chicago until I was kicked out for participating in a student protest. Before becoming a full-time artist, I was the first woman art director at McCann-Erickson advertising agency in New York, working on Coca-Cola, the New York Times, and other clients.
In 2018 I had exhibitions at The Museum of The City of NY, the Hirshhorn Museum DC. and a solo show at Susan Inglett Gallery, NY, focussed on the state of our divided country, as the midterm elections loomed. 2019 exhibitions included the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and We Rise. Los Angeles and the San Diego Institute of Art.
Morally Superior Products: Equal Opportunity Sauce, 1982