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First Dorothea Rockburne Retrospective on View at Parrish Art Museum

SOUTHAMPTON, NY.- Dorothea Rockburne: In My Mind’s Eye, the first career retrospective of this important and influential artist, is on view at the Parrish Art Museum. Organized by Alicia Longwell, Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator, Art and Education, In My Mind’s Eye surveys Rockburne’s work from the late 1960s to the present and range from such early iconic installation pieces as Scalar (1971) to the lushly painted Geometry of Stardust works (2009-2010). The exhibition remains on view through August 14. Among the more than fifty works in the exhibition are the monumentally-scaled wrinkle finish paint on steel Tropical Tan (1967–1968); the seminal crude oil, paper, and chipboard installation Intersection (1971); the remarkable shaped canvases such as I am Pascal (1986); and the recent watercolor on Dura-Lar works, including Three Point