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Over a career that spanned four decades, Jack Roth (19272004) built on his early success as an Abstract Expressionist movement to cultivate a remarkable body of Color Field painting. His career began in the late 1940s when he worked in San Francisco and studied under Mark Rothko, Richard Diebenkorn, and Clyfford Still, and continued through to the 1980s, when his work was represented by the prestigious gallery Knoedler & Co alongside the work of Diebenkorn, Calder, and others.

The more than 40 works on canvas and paper in this LewAllen exhibition represent Roth’s finest periods, from his early abstract expressionist works through his acclaimed later paintings that incorporated arrangements of fresh, even color, stained matte pigment, and an unusual use of line and negative space.

Jack Roth, was born in Brockway, Pennsylvania, on March 13, 1927. At the age of 27, Roth exhibited his work in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum "Younger American Painters" exhibition (May 12 to July 25, 1954) – alongside Sonia Gechtoff, William Baziotes, Morris Louis, Richard Diebenkorn, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock and others.

His abstract paintings often included raw, unprimed canvas stained with thinned paint, allowing the colors to soak directly into the weave of the canvas. Roth was named New Talent Graphic artist of the year in 1963 by Art in America on the recommendation of MoMA curators Dorothy Miller and William S. Lieberman. In 1979, he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship and in 1982 he received a New Jersey Council on the Arts Award.