ABOUT THE ARTIST

Gail Rothschild collaborates with museums internationally creating paintings that breathe new life into archaeological fragments. Over the course of a long career, Rothschild has become intimately familiar with the effects of time and decay on art. After graduating from Yale with a BA (cum laude), she embarked on a peripatetic career creating site-specific sculptural installations for colleges and museums. From Jeffrey Lord Amherst and Biological Warfare at the University of Massachusetts to Margaret Bourke White’s clandestine steel mill photographs for Cleveland, each one addressed an under-recognized aspect of local history. A few public sculptures such as Muted Belles for the University of Memphis were permanent, while her finalist design for a Boston Women’s Monument remains un-built. Most of these commissions, however, for institutions such as the Bronx Museum, and the Socrates Sculpture Park were impermanent, or even destroyed by the artist at the end of installation, simply due to the cost of transporting and storing their elements.