Self Portrait with Brussels Stadium Riot

A painter, muralist, illustrator, and a performer and documentor of traditional American folk music. Rosenbaum was born in New York. This drawing was bought from his 2004 exhibition at Liverpool John Moores University. The drawing arose from the artist's horror at seeing the tragic 1985 Heysel stadium riot on his television in Germany. Newspaper and magazine pictures were his reference for the rioters. The male and female couple recur in his work, usually with something happening around them. Rosenbaum's own image comes from a Polaroid self-portrait. The drawing is a full-scale study for a large diptych titles 'My Mind Will Never be 'Aisy'.