Michael Goldberg “Making His Mark: Paintings and Drawings, 1985-2005”
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
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Michael Rosenfeld Gallery presents Michael Goldberg: Making His Mark, Paintings & Drawings, 1985-2005, a single exhibition of paintings and works on paper running simultaneously in New York and Los Angeles. Spanning the last two decades of the artist’s career, the exhibition is the joint effort of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery on the East Coast and Manny Silverman Gallery on the West. Both galleries represent the estate of the artist, and the exhibition has been organized with the estate’s cooperation.
Michael Goldberg: Making His Mark signals the first solo exhibition of Goldberg’s work at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery and the first time the gallery has co-curated a bicoastal show. This collaboration enables both galleries to introduce new audiences to the vibrancy and relevance of Goldberg’s long career. Although Goldberg is best known for his large-scale, New York School paintings, a close look at his later work reveals affinities with graffiti art and an urban aesthetic placed in productive tension with the rigors of postwar American abstraction. Layered in image & texture, monumental in-scale, and featuring bold strokes, free gestures, and vibrant colors, works from 1985 to 2005 record in an abstract vein a period of intensified cultural and demographic transition even for an ever-changing city like New York. In this respect, the West Coast venue of Los Angeles is appropriate not only as the home of Manny Silverman Gallery, but as a complement to New York—a similarly diverse city affected by the social, political, and economic upheavals of recent decades and that has risen to prominence as a revitalized international art center.
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from January 17, 2015 to March 14, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-01-16 from 18:00 to 20:00