Rothenberg's earliest prints have images of horses -- in profile, frontally, or details of legs. These prints are not meant as depictions of horses; Rothenberg uses horses both as formal elements and as metaphors for power. Beginning in 1980, Rothenberg turned to the human figure for imagery, but only in fragments -- head, hands, and bones. In many cases her figures are abstracted beyond visual recognition. Rothenberg's prints incorporate a wide range of printmaking techniques -- and many of them are hand-colored -- to attain the utmost variety and richness of surface.

Rothenberg was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1945 and received her B.F.A. from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, in 1967. She moved to New York City in 1969 and had her first one-artist exhibition in 1975.

Source: News, May/June 1992.