Sanded Arm reveals a group of dense pen drawings rife with notations, criss-crossing arrows, bits of tape and drops of paint. I make these 'thought-drawings' to plan my paintings and in that sense they are preliminary. In another sense they are everything: the paper space where I draw out my language of biomorphic abstraction. On some pages there are meaty shapes that expand like muscles, on others there are gnarled forms that morph into hearts. And on several occasions, twisting ropes bind the parts together.

The first time I saw Victoria’s paintings, at Broadway Gallery, I thought she was painting “things” – her drawings, though, point the way out to feelings, instead, each ballpoint pen mark giving more and more warmth. Dan Nadel

Victoria Roth is a visual artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from Columbia University in 2014 and a BA in History of Art & Architecture and Visual Arts from Brown University in 2008. She has exhibited her paintings and drawings nationally and internationally. Her most recent solo exhibitions include a presentation at The Armory Show with Broadway Gallery, New York, NY (2023); Velvet Nerve, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY (2022); Victoria Roth, Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY (2019) and Insides, fAN Kunstverein, Vienna, AT (2017). Roth’s work has been included in numerous group shows at various galleries and institutions such as Hales Gallery (New York, NY), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, FR), Kate Werble Gallery (New York, NY), Lulu (Mexico City, MX), The Pit (Los Angeles, LA) and more. In addition to her studio practice, Victoria Roth is an educator who teaches painting and drawing in New York City.