About
b. 1986, HK.
Jo Ann Rothschild is an abstract painter living in Boston Massachusetts. Her first meaningful encounter with visual art came at 3 when she saw a painting on glass by the American artist Irene Pereira, and was fascinated by the layering. She is the first winner of the Maud Morgan Purchase Prize of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
“I care about touch. I want evidence of the human. Although I am primarily an abstract artist, I draw the figure, drew my mother in her last year, and paint myself as I age. I am interested in history, in one layer seen through another. Much of my work evolves over years. Since time can play an important part in my work, many pieces are named for the date finished.” - Jo Ann Rothschild, 2021
ARTIST BOOKS :
Jo Ann Rothschild and Rigoberto Mena, 2024, “Old Friends”, Museum of Contemporary Art of America Purchase (Amazon)
Jo Ann Rothschild, 2009, “The Book of Penis!”, Pressed Water Pr
You can order the BOP! from the following venues.
In Praise of Shadows Gallery (Brookline)
Katharine Small Gallery (Somerville)
Brookline Booksmith (Brookline)
Stitch and Tickle (Boston)
Recent ProjectS :
2024 Warm to the Touch, Jo Ann Rothschild Solo Exhibition, storefront art project, Boston, MA
The link of record of Artist Talk is here.
2024 ARTIST TALK + BOOK SIGNING of “The Book of PENIS!”, Praise Shadows, Boston, MA
The link of record is here.
2024 100 Women of Spirit, Zurcher Gallery, New York, NY
2024 Old Friends, Rigoberto Mena and Jo Ann Rothschild, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2023 Unforced Order, Jo Ann Rothschild and Philip Gerstein, Licht and Fire, New York, NY
2023 Boston Art Review: Issue 11, Emerge, Jo Ann Rothschild by Michelle Millar Fisher and AnaNasi
2023 Jo Ann Rothschild, Prints, Newton Free Library, Newton MA
2023 11 Women of Spirit, Zurcher Gallery, New York, NY
2023 Old Friends, Rigoberto Mena and Jo Ann Rothschild, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas, Kendall, Miami FL
2022 Then and Now, Now and Then: Unstretched Canvases, 1989-2006, Hardcover with an essay by Susan Stoops and 82 full color reproductions, available from “Stitch and Tickle”, 450 Harrison, Boston MA (617.792.0792) or here
2022 “Space Color Movement: Philip Gerstein, Jo Ann Rothschild, Alexandra Rozenman”, Brickbottom Gallery, Sommerville, MA
2021 "Hope for the Future", HallSpace, Dorchester, MA (Solo Show) Catalog available here