"Jack Roth" (1927–2004), also known as "Rodney Jack Roth", was an United States/American painter who developed a style as an Abstract Expressionist, and as a Color Field painter.

He was born in Brockway, Pennsylvania. After studying with Mark Rothko at the California School of Fine Arts, he received a Master of Fine Arts from the State University of Iowa in 1952, and a PhD/doctoral degree in mathematics from Duke University in 1962. He taught math at Ramapo College in New Jersey, and also taught for brief periods at the University of South Florida and the University of Kentucky. His work includes several large abstract paintings created by staining raw, unprimed canvas with thinned paint, allowing the colors to soak directly into the weave of the canvas. He was represented by and exhibited at the Knoedler & Co. Gallery in New York City from 1979 to 1986 and 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.

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