Rosenthal Fine Art is located in Chicago’s River North neighborhood. Founded in 1984, Rosenthal provides a wide range of personalized services including appraisals and curatorial consultations, new acquisitions and exhibitions. The gallery also provides valuation advice in the form of appraisals for insurance, donations, estate settlements and expert witness services. Our focus is Modernism, Abstract Expressionism, Post-War, and Contemporary.
Artists include: Jack Beal, Harry Bertoia, Stanley Boxer, Joseph Bueys, John Cage, Giorgio Cavallon, Gene Davis, Jim Dine, John Deom, Sam Gilliam. Judith Goldsmith, Dimitri Hadzi, Keith Haring, Sharon Kopriva, Richard Lindner, Reuben Nakian, Claus Oldenburg, Jerry Ott, Santiago Parra, Larry Poons, James Rosenquist, Hunt Slonem, Elsworth Snyder, Harry Sudman, Bill Weege, Dennis Wojtkiewicz, and Larry Zox.
Image: Main upstairs gallery, Seasonal Selections Exhibition
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In his recent artist's statement Wojtkiewicz talks about his process:
I focus primarily on how light interacts with the diverse surfaces of natural forms—forms that exist at the boundary of biology and sensuality, carrying within them an erotic charge tied to their fertility and ephemerality.
The close-up, intimate vantage points I choose liberate these forms from mere depiction, pressing them toward abstraction, toward rhythm, pattern, and texture. They surrender to the idea that representation itself is an unreliable illusion, asking the viewer to engage the paintings not just as signs pointing to recognizable objects but as vivid, sensual encounters—experiences accountable only to their own internal logic.
Finally Wojtkiewicz invites us to experience the work:
Ultimately, my paintings are about attention and presence. They reimagine biology's fleeting moments of beauty as luminous icons, asking us not only to contemplate impermanence but also to celebrate the act of looking itself—the possibility of finding, again and again, that moment of discovery where craft, vision, and wonder converge.
Image: ROSETTE SERIES #37, O/CANVAS 48 x 48 INCHES
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