About the Artist

Rachel Rotenberg grew up in Toronto, Canada where she received a BFA from York University in 1981. She attended the School of Visual Arts in New York and settled in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, concentrating on wood sculpture. In 1994, Rotenberg moved to Baltimore.

Since the 1980's, Rachel Rotenberg has been creating a substantial body of abstract sculpture. Rotenberg creates an aesthetic world populated by sensually curving surfaces, intriguingly formed negative spaces, and forceful volumes. Both individually and as a group the sculptures have a powerful presence

The artist begins her process by drawing shapes in a sketchbook. She then builds from those drawings using sticks of cedar lumber. With a variety of machinery - hand and power tools - the wood is cut, glued, clamped and sanded. Finally she applies evocative stains and colors.

Rotenberg has actively exhibited her work in many galleries in the area, including The Baltimore Museum of Art, the Decker Gallery at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore's Creative Alliance at the Patterson, Sub-Basement Galleries, and the Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, Virginia. She was a recipient of a 2009 Creative Baltimore Individual Artist Award and several grants from the Art Bank of Canada. Rotenberg was a 2011 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize finalist.