Join us for a conversation between Dorothea Rockburne and Dia editor Svetlana Kitto to launch the first in-depth monograph of the artist’s seven-decade career.

Published in July 2024, the book considers the full scope and varied range of Rockburne’s elegant yet deceptively simple sculptures, installations, and paintings. Essays explore her time at Black Mountain College and training as an artist; her background in dance including a brief period with the Judson Dance Theater; the physicality of her art as manifested through painstaking work with humble materials like chipboard, cup grease, paper, and linen; her long-standing engagement with mathematics; and her foregrounding of subjectivity and emotion, which puts her in particular dialogue with feminism, Minimalism, and wider contemporary abstraction. Balancing both new scholarship and never-before-published writings, studies, and drawings by the artist, this will be the definitive book on Rockburne’s expansive oeuvre for years to come. The event features a Q&A with the artist and editor, to be followed by a book signing.