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Rosemarie Castoro
b. 1939


Rosemarie Castoro (1939 - 2015) established herself in the late 60s as one of the few well-recognized female painters among the New York Minimalists.  Castoro was often overshadowed by men, including her then-husband Carl Andre, and their friends Sol Lewitt, Frank Stella, Mark di Suvero and Robert Smithson. That shadow has lifted, and today Rosemarie Castoro is gaining renewed attention and praise for her pioneering works. Castoro worked in painting, sculpture, performance, and installation throughout her career. By 1964 she directed her focus on painting and drawing, creating a pioneering body of work of highly sophisticated hard-edge abstraction. Beginning in the late 1960s, Castoro’s works became more sculptural. The earliest example is her series of Brushstrokes, one of which is included in MoMA's permanent collection. Based on stenographic shorthand, these pieces were constructed of cut masonite intricately shaped to mimic the strokes of brush bristles. While she never renounced painting entirely, Castoro's sculpture seems the focus of her work beginning in the 80s. Castoro simultaneously allowed her discoveries in three-dimensions to carry over into her two-dimensional work, both of which were often related. 

Born in Brooklyn and a graduate of Pratt Institute, Castoro’s works have been seen in more than fifty solo exhibitions since 1971, and is included in numerous public and corporate collections including MoMA; The Newark Museum; University Art Museum, Berkeley; Goldman Sachs; Bank of America; and Centre National Des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France.


Exhibition History:

Moving
Rosemarie Castoro: A Decade of Black and White Sculpture
Drawings
The Summer Show
Flashers
City Streets
Kings and Queens
New Sculpture
Home Sweet Home
Major Works
Ten
Castoro/Sharon Sculpture 
The Dimension of Line
The Forest
Rosemarie Castoro 1939-2015
On Paper
Between the Lines*
1977
1981
1981
1981
1983
1985
1985
1985
1986
1986
1986
1987
2007
2011
2016
2017
2024

Press: 


June 2016Hal Bromm, Four Decades in the Art World
Vasari21


April 1992
Quel piano d’acciaio accartocciato ricorda la Venere di Milo
IL GIORNALE DELL'ARTE

Summer 1987
Rosemarie Castoro
Artscribe


December 1983
New York Reviews: Rosemarie Castoro
ARTnews


September 1982
Rosemarie Castoro: Post-Minimal Wit
Attenzione


October 30, 1981
Rosemarie Castoro
The New York Times


March 24, 1980
Rosemarie Castoro
The Village Voice


February 25, 1980
Rosemarie Castoro, Tibor de  Nagy Gallery
 Voice
Now on view:

Lucio Pozzi
Cornucopia: the Bielefeld Watercolors


Through May 10, 2025
Upcoming:
May 22 - The Queer Show Part II
Opening Reception 6-8 pm
@ Hal Bromm Gallery

September 19 - 50: The View From Tribeca
Opening Reception 6-8 pm
@  Hal Bromm Gallery