Blaise Rosenthal is a self-taught artist born in New York City in 1973. At the age of six, his family relocated to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, where he spent the remainder of his formative years in this isolated region of Northern California. He cites the solitude of this period, and his immersion in the local wildlands, as the basis for the environmental archetypes that have informed his abstract vocabulary.
Currently residing and working in Truckee, California, Rosenthal uses the experience of years of extensive travels to develop a broader context within which to place his work. In his practice, the artist prefers simple materials such as charcoal, pastel, acrylic paint, and paper or canvas. He focuses on the dynamic nature of abstraction to create paintings that often reference landscape while offering both subjective sincerity and objective accessibility. In this way, Rosenthal endeavors to dismantle the loneliness of his youth by creating connection through work that transcends identity-oriented barriers and touches on fundamental aspects of our common human experience.