It is now 15 years since Susan Rothenberg made her debut in New York with a series of paintings of horses. Her ghostly, painterly images of those primitve-looking horses established her immediately as one of the leading "new image" painters talked about at the time. Her paintings were the result of a successful marriage between a personal symbolism and the tradition of "American Type Painting". They followed from an intuitive process and were finally not so much "new images" as "her images", something which assured them a life beyond the moment.

Susan Rothenberg's most recent show at Sperone Westwater Gallery in New York was named "a mature statement" by Michael Brenson in The New York Times, continuing "the emotional honesty and pictorial impact of the new paintings are impressive. Horses have returned, the three paintings inspired by her feelings about them...may be a preclude to a new series. Rothenberg's career is not behind her but ahead".

15 years have passed - is it not time to take a look at what passed? At Rooseum - Center for Contemporary Art, we do this, with a selection of 24 of Susan Rothenberg's most important large paintings borrowed from museums, institutions and private collections in USA and Europe.