About

Judi Rotenberg is an American artist who lives and works on Cape Ann and in Boston, Massachusetts.

A life-long summer resident of Rockport and a highly respected artist, Judi works on a large scale, creating vibrant canvases that capture the fragility and strength of life through floral still lifes. It is a genre that Rotenberg has perfected over the past 40 years, and which continues to captivate her today.

A daughter of the late American Impressionist Harold Rotenberg, Judi Rotenberg has immersed herself in art since childhood. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Boston University where she studied with Reed Kay and David Aaronson. She also studied privately with Francois Gall in Paris and Henry Schwartz in Boston. On Cape Ann, Judi benefited from instruction from Albert Alcalay, Barbara Swan and George Demetrios. Judi is classically trained and accomplished at portraiture and landscape as well as still lifes, and in 2012–13, she had the great honor of being selected as a copyist at the Louvre in Paris.

Working primarily in acrylic, Judi Rotenberg’s paintings are unabashedly beautiful, alive with color and motion. Each composition is vibrant and fresh and represents a new challenge for Judi. Her canvases are rich in detail, from the foreground and the table on which a vase and bouquet sit, through the center of the canvas with its explosion of blossoms, to the top of the composition where Judi often includes the view across her studio or out over Rockport Harbor.      

More about Judi Rotenberg

Judi Rotenberg: Recent Work — Catalog essay by Martha Oaks, Chief Curator for the Cape Ann Museum for the 2022 exhibition of the same name, held at the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, MA.

The Living Still Life: A Daughter’s Observations — Catalog essay by Abigail Ross Goodman.