“THE SEASONS”: “June, or What I Thought I Knew,” the oil on linen featured above, is one of the works by Deborah Rosenthal included in the solo exhibit “The Seasons” at the Rider University Art Gallery from now through April 10.

The Rider University Art Gallery’s exhibition titled “The Seasons,” featuring the work of Deborah Rosenthal, is on view now through Sunday, April 10. An artist’s talk will be held in the gallery on Thursday, March 10 at 7 p.m. Admission for all events is free.

Professor of Art at Rider University’s Westminster College of the Arts, Rosenthal has exhibited her work at the Bowery Gallery in New York since 1984. She has shown in both group and solo shows in museums, galleries, and university galleries in the United States. Her paintings, drawings, and prints have been discussed and reproduced in many publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Modern Painters, Art in America, and Yale Review.

“[Rosenthal’s paintings] reveal a sensibility immersed in landscape, in natural cycles of transformation and renewal. Rosenthal is no plein-air painter, however, no illustrator of scenic views. What makes her so remarkable is the strength of her aesthetic imagination. She is that rare artist whose formal knowledge has fused so thoroughly with her inventiveness that they appear indistinguishable: with a few brushstrokes she can bring the entire history of painting to bear, even while those brushstrokes remain spontaneous,” writes University of Minnesota Professor Peter Campion.

The Rider University Art Gallery is located in the Bart Luedeke Center on Rider University’s campus, 2038 Lawrenceville Road, in Lawrenceville. It is open Tuesday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. The gallery will be closed for spring break (March 12-20). To learn more, visit www.rider.edu/arts.

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