Doron Rosenthal, a Southern Californian, has been inspired by the desert landscape from a young age. Born in Arcadia in 1959, he spent summers traveling from Los Angeles to Nogales, Mexico, where he visited his grandparents. The beauty and purity of the desert moved him in a deep and lasting way that continues to sculpt and shape his work to this day.
He first began working in stone in 1979 in Santa Barbara, and moved to San Diego to be closer to the source of stone, the Anza-Borrego desert. His first show at the Natalie Bush Gallery was nationally covered by Art Week and inspired him to continue.
“…a formidable debut–shot through with intrigue, novelty and sensual enjoyments that evoke in many a profound meditation on the preconditions and ends of modern sculpture. Alabaster is the artist’s metier, locally indigenous alabaster for which he sours the Anza-Borrego and the wild lands around the San Bernardino mountains. He carves these interestingly colored slabs of hard, compact calcite to play the slight translucency of the stone against its beautiful banding and layers…”
—Michael McManus, February 1987, ART WEEK.
True to his roots, Doron Rosenthal has a passion for creating art from and in his own back yard. He has created public art from San Diego to San Francisco , which can be enjoyed today and that reflects both the past and the future.
In the late 90s, Doron traveled to the center of the stone cutting world, Pietra Santa, Italy, where he had the opportunity to learn from and work alongside the best sculptors today.
He shared his knowledge of stone cutting at the San Diego Art Institute for several years where he taught and was inspired by his students work, who continue to create and push art into the future.
Doron Rosenthal lives in East Village, San Diego, where he continues to study and create today.