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In 1979, after studying painting at Boston University,
Roth began painting cityscapes, having been influenced by his love of
architecture, the art of the French impressionists and American masters such as
Edward Hopper, Wayne Thiebaud and Richard Diebenkorn.
In Spring of 1980, he moved to New York City where he painted throughout the city. For two years he captured
views of Central Park and street scenes, occasionally selling them to passersby.
In 1982 a man from France visited Roth’s Greenwich Village basement studio to see some of his paintings. He
offered Roth the opportunity to live in his home with his family in the South
of France for several months in exchange for one of the paintings. Four months
later Roth brought the painting to France and stayed with his first patron and
his family. After a summer of painting in Provence, and further bartering
paintings for lodging, he moved to the Paris suburb of Le Pre St. Gervais and
lived in an apartment owned by other members of that family.
While living in Paris, he traveled throughout France, Italy and England,
continuing to paint city life, people, and landscapes of Europe. During that
time, those paintings were shown in several solo exhibitions in France and the
U.S. including numerous shows in the French Library of Boston, the Copley
Society of Boston, and several group exhibitions including the Grand Palais of
Paris.
In 2010 he was
chosen by Chief Judge Jose’ Antonio Fuste’ of
Puerto Rico to undertake a three-year, first-of-its-kind project: to paint the
portraits of all thirty-one
federal judges in Puerto Rico from 1899 to the present. The portraits will
be completed in Spring of 2010.
Currently his work is showing in The Allan
Stone Gallery and The Julie Heller Gallery in New York and Massachusetts.
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