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Mitchell Rosenzweig

Solo Solar

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


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Large Paintings

Space Jazz

MR002

Mitchell Rosenzweig

68"h x 60"w


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Maine

MR004

Mitchell Rosenzweig

36"h x 60"w


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Space Trip

MR005

Mitchell Rosenzweig

42"h x 65"w


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Desert Clouds

MR007

Mitchell Rosenzweig

45"h x 60"w


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Oak Tree

MR009

64"h x 56"w 

Mitchell Rosenzweig


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Highlands Dreamin'

MR008

Mitchell Rosenzweig

40"h x 50"w


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Medium-sized Paintings

Window

MR013

Mitchell Rosenzweig

30"h x 28"w


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LIfe

MR003

Mitchell Rosenzweig

36"h x 36"w


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Plant in Vase

MR012

Mitchell Rosenzweig

28"h x 23"w


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Small Paintings

Path in the Woods

MR027

12 1/2"h x 11"w

Mitchell Rosenzweig


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Dog in Chair

MR014

Mitchell Rosenzweig

8"h x 10"w


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Sunset Great Bay

MR017

Mitchell Rosenzweig

10"h x 14"w


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MR022

Mitchell Rosenzweig

10"h x 11"w


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Fall / New Hampshire

MR026

10"h x 10"w

Mitchell Rosenzweig


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New Hampshire Field

MR025

Mitchell Rosenzweig

6 1/2"h x 10 1/2"w


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The Artworld Post

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/ 


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Biography

Biography

Solo Exhibitions

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

Group Shows

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 

Art Museum Curator

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 

Reviews

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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