Current Shows
The Codex Project: Seven paintings inspired by a 12th. c. Syriac codex
“THINK BIG!
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PORTRAITS OF LATE ANTIQUE EGYPTIAN TEXTILES
New Exhibition at the German National Textile Museum Krefeld, DE
Current Collections
FROM THE DESERT
TO THE
CITY
Rothschild’s sharp acrylic-on-canvas realizations of textile fragments focus on the spinning of fiber, the knitting of thread, and the seemingly vocational skill inherent in each piece. With palpable deference, the artist creates haunting, evocative recapitulations that exist on the cusp of Nature and Culture, eliciting challenges and questions about the artistry inherent in traditionally female “crafts,” the notion of artistic expression itself, and the social, economic, and historical hierarchies woven into our collective consciousness.
- Zoe Randall
“The small, incidental, brilliantly-colored tapestry fragments of the Rose Choron collection expand in Gail Rothschild’s paintings to attain monumentality and a distinctive levity in the face of decay.”
“The minutia of each square centimeter of her work reveals a universe of form only after moving between a focused, close-up examination of the object’s nano-texture to the far-sighted view of the picture’s figure from ten or twenty feet away.”
