"Where Is Jack Goldstein?" Exhibition
Venus over Manhattan
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Where Is Jack Goldstein?, an exhibition conceived to invite further exploration of that mystery and to re-contextualize the artist’s significant contributions. The show will be one of the very first ever to focus in depth upon Goldstein’s early paintings. On view will be 13 key canvases from the decade spanning 1976 to 1986, all on loan from important private collections. Among the earliest works included are “The Pull,” an experiment combining photography and painting, along with an important early-untitled triptych from 1979. “Untitled (#26)” from Goldstein’s Burning City series (1981) leads to the artist’s fully developed canvases, represented in Where Is Jack Goldstein? by a monumental work from the Blitzkrieg (Tracer) series. The Lightning series will be represented by three large paintings, and Goldstein’s interest in celestial phenomena is revealed in “Untitled (Observatory)” and “Untitled”(Eclipse),” both made in 1983.
Jack Goldstein, whose oeuvre encompasses films, paintings, recordings and word poems, was a member of the first graduating class of CalArts (California Institute of Arts) in 1972 — an auspicious start for a dazzling and too-brief career that remains much admired but stubbornly enigmatic. Goldstein moved to New York, where his rejection of Minimalism and urgent embrace of imagery helped establish him as a key figure in what is today known as the Pictures Generation, and made him one of the most influential American artists of the 1980s. He showed his work initially at the new Metro Pictures; bounced among several other galleries; then slowly faded from view and eventually removed himself completely from the New York art scene. Goldstein returned to California in the 1990s and virtually disappeared from public consciousness until his 2002 retrospective at Le Magasin in Grenoble. A few months before the publication of Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia, an oral history of his early days and with interest in his work growing significantly, he tragically ended his own life on March 14, 2003. In the decade since his death, interest in Goldstein has grown significantly, and yet the deeper intentions of his rapturous but ominous work remain a mystery.
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Schedule
from November 14, 2012 to February 02, 2013
Opening Reception on 2012-11-14 from 21:00
Opening Reception and Performance of ‘Two Fencers’