May 2 - 25, 2025
ARTIST RECEPTION
Friday, May 16
5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Rosenzweig's "paintings hold tension. They carry memory. And they invite you to stay a while, to sift through their surfaces like you’re searching for something—maybe something you lost or something you didn’t know you were looking for." - The Art World Post
Space Jazz
MR002
Mitchell Rosenzweig
68"h x 60"w
Copyright © Mitchell Rosenzweig, all rights reserved.
973-910-2400
Maine
MR004
Mitchell Rosenzweig
36"h x 60"w
Copyright © Mitchell Rosenzweig, all rights reserved.
973-910-2400
Space Trip
MR005
Mitchell Rosenzweig
42"h x 65"w
Copyright © Mitchell Rosenzweig, all rights reserved.
973-910-2400
Desert Clouds
MR007
Mitchell Rosenzweig
45"h x 60"w
Copyright © Mitchell Rosenzweig, all rights reserved.
973-910-2400
Oak Tree
MR009
64"h x 56"w
Mitchell Rosenzweig
Copyright © Mitchell Rosenzweig, all rights reserved.
973-910-2400
Highlands Dreamin'
MR008
Mitchell Rosenzweig
40"h x 50"w
Copyright © Mitchell Rosenzweig, all rights reserved.
973-910-2400
Window
MR013
Mitchell Rosenzweig
30"h x 28"w
Copyright © Mitchell Rosenzweig, all rights reserved.
973-910-2400
LIfe
MR003
Mitchell Rosenzweig
36"h x 36"w
Copyright © Mitchell Rosenzweig, all rights reserved.
973-910-2400
Plant in Vase
MR012
Mitchell Rosenzweig
28"h x 23"w
Copyright © Mitchell Rosenzweig, all rights reserved.
973-910-2400
Path in the Woods
MR027
12 1/2"h x 11"w
Mitchell Rosenzweig
Copyright © Mitchell Rosenzweig, all rights reserved.
973-910-2400
Dog in Chair
MR014
Mitchell Rosenzweig
8"h x 10"w
Copyright © Mitchell Rosenzweig, all rights reserved.
973-910-2400
Sunset Great Bay
MR017
Mitchell Rosenzweig
10"h x 14"w
Copyright © Mitchell Rosenzweig, all rights reserved.
973-910-2400
MR022
Mitchell Rosenzweig
10"h x 11"w
Copyright © Mitchell Rosenzweig, all rights reserved.
973-910-2400
Fall / New Hampshire
MR026
10"h x 10"w
Mitchell Rosenzweig
Copyright © Mitchell Rosenzweig, all rights reserved.
973-910-2400
New Hampshire Field
MR025
Mitchell Rosenzweig
6 1/2"h x 10 1/2"w
Copyright © Mitchell Rosenzweig, all rights reserved.
973-910-2400
April 24, 2025
Mitchell Rosenzweig is an experienced artist whose abstract mixed media paintings don’t demand attention—they earn it. At first glance, they might seem spontaneous, but there’s a solid framework beneath the surface. Layers of paint, scraps of paper, and other materials settle into place like sediment, forming a thick, deliberate build. It’s not random piling. It’s structure with purpose. A kind of visual scaffolding that quietly supports everything you see.
What sets Rosenzweig’s work apart is how he brings two seemingly opposite forces together—chaos and control. A lot of artists work with layers, especially in abstract mixed media. But Rosenzweig’s layering doesn’t just build texture or evoke movement. It carries weight. The details hold each other up. The surface, no matter how active, never feels fragile. That’s rare.
Take Desert Clouds for example, one of his more landscape-inspired paintings. He started this one years ago in New Mexico, where he spent time watching the sky, absorbing the intense desert light and color. Unlike many of his more abstract works, Desert Clouds leans into some representational detail—specifically, the clouds that drift across the top. Still, it’s not a literal landscape. It’s filtered through memory and material. He worked on it for a long time, repainting it multiple times over the years. When the process stalled, he let it rest. Then he came back. Again and again, until it was done.
This slow process isn’t a gimmick or some kind of dramatic gesture. It’s just how Rosenzweig works. He builds his surfaces the way nature builds terrain—layering, compacting, letting things settle, returning with more. It’s a rhythm that feels both personal and geological. You get the sense he’s not just making images but trying to capture time, erosion, presence.
There’s also something tactile about his paintings. You don’t just see them. You want to get up close and trace the edge of a scrap of paper or a smudge of pigment. The materials aren’t hidden or smoothed away. They’re part of the language. That said, these works don’t feel messy. The density is never overwhelming. He knows where to stop. Or at least when to pause long enough to let the surface breathe.
Rosenzweig’s landscapes aren’t always recognizable. Often, they’re completely abstract. But there’s a strong sense of place in everything he does. Even if you don’t see mountains or trees, you feel the weight of terrain. You feel the atmosphere. That might be why people respond so viscerally to his paintings. There’s something familiar under all the abstraction—like walking through a dream of a place you once knew.
His time in New Mexico clearly left an imprint. The desert appears often, not always in form, but in energy. It’s that sharp contrast between openness and density, between the vast sky and the parched earth. His colors shift with similar contrast. You’ll find dusty neutrals against hot oranges, pale blues layered with rusted reds. Nothing is flat. Everything feels weathered, but still alive.
Rosenzweig doesn’t just paint the landscape. He excavates it. And that goes for his process too. Each painting is a kind of dig site—material unearthed, arranged, reconsidered. Sometimes he puts a work away for years before returning to it with new eyes. He seems comfortable with that kind of distance. He lets time do its work.
That patience, that willingness to sit with the unfinished, is part of what gives his paintings their strange gravity. They hold tension. They carry memory. And they invite you to stay a while, to sift through their surfaces like you’re searching for something—maybe something you lost or something you didn’t know you were looking for.
Rosenzweig’s work isn’t loud. It doesn’t tell you what to feel. But it stays with you. Like the way light settles over the desert before dusk. Or how a half-buried object can suddenly catch your eye.
There’s strength in that kind of stillness. And in the quiet accumulation of time.
https://theartworldpost.com/layers-of-time-the-art-of-mitchell-rosenzweig/
June 2022 SONO Art Gallery, South Norwalk, Conn
Feb 2021 Christine Frechard Gallery Pittsburgh, Pa.
Aug.2017 53rd Street Building Gallery N.Y.C. NY.
Sept. 2014 Compton Paquette Gallery, Boonton, NJ.
Feb. 2013 Hosteter Art Center, Mountville, N.J.
June.2006 Artstream, Dover, N.H.
Aug. 2006 Horizon Gallery, Santa Fe, N.M.
Aug. 2002 Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME.
Sept. 2001 Merrimack College, North Andover, MA
March 2001 Nahcotta, Portsmouth, N.H.
May 2000 Moses Brown Academy, Providence, R.I.
Sept. 1998 Gallery Szent-Gyorgyi, Falmouth, MA
Feb. 1996 Gallery 10, Washington, D.C
Feb 2024 Neo Gallery, Boonton NJ
Sept 2024 Seavey Market Place, Portsmouth, NH
Jan 2023 Farmstead Art Center, Basking Ridge, NJ
May 2022 Seavey Market Place, Portsmouth, NH
Sept 2022 Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
June 2021 Alfa Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
Dec 2020 Neo Gallery, Boonton, NJ
April 2019 Carter Burden Gallery, N.Y.C.
May 2018 Anderson Contemporary, N.Y.C
Jan. 2017 Anderson Contemporay, N.Y.C
Sept. 2016 St. Elizabeth College,, Morristown, N,J,
Sept. 2015 Atrium Gallery, Morristown, N,J,
Feb. 2014 Compton Gallery, Boonton, NJ.
Dec. 2010. Christine Richard, Pitts, Penn
Dec. 2010. Ruth Morpeth, Hopewell, NJ.
May 2009. 707 Gallery, Santa Fe, N.M.
Feb. 2009. Ruth Morpeth, Hopewell, NJ.
April 2008. 707 Gallery, Santa Fe, N.M.
June.2007 Gallery 31, Glen Gardner, N.J.
May. 2005 Hunter Kirkland, Santa Fe, N.M. Feb. 2004 Nahcotta, Portsmouth, N.H. Dec. 2003 Walker Kornbluth Gallery, Fairlawn, N.J. July.2003 Gallery Horizon, Santa Fe, N.M. July 2002 Nese Alpan Gallery, Huntington, N.Y Jan. 2002 Handsel Gallery, Santa Fe, N.M. Oct. 2001 Ira Pinto Gallery, Wasington, D.C.Sept. 2001 Gallery C, Raleigh, N.C. June 2000 Ogunquit Museum, Ogunquit, MEJune 2000 Moses Kent Museum, Exeter, N.H. May 2000 Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA Feb. 2000 Judy Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA Sept. 1999 New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, N.H.
July 1999 Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, N.Y. June 1998 Moses Kent House Museum, Exeter, N.H. May 1995 Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA
2011 Art Museum Curator Mai Kon Pan Museum, Thialand
Grants and Awards
July 2023 Puffin Foundation Fellowship
Nov. 2005 "Subway Film": Artstream Film Festival
Best Short Film
Oct. 1998 Individual Artist Fellowship
New Hampshire Council on the Arts
Jan. 1997 New Hampshire Film Festival
Highest Honors:" Nu-Knees"
New Hampshire State Council on the Arts Cash Award
Aug. 2002 Solo Show Review
Ogunquit Museum
Oct. 1998 International Sculpture Magazine
Contemporary Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit
Moses Kent House Museum, Exeter, N.H.
March 1996 The Washington Review
Anne Banks: Professor Emeritus N.Virginia College
Solo Show Review
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