@willvheinrich via @nytimes : “It was in the imposing modernist stripes of the Twin Towers that Mr. Moskowitz found his great subject. Whether appearing as two black bars huddled in the corner of a modest sheet of drawing paper or rearing up as bold red dashes 10 feet high, the towers seemed to transcend the usual distinctions among genres of art, even among genres of mark making. (It’s worth noting that among drawings called “Flatiron” or “Empire State,” the Twin Towers pieces are invariably called just “Skyscraper.”) The towers were a specific architectural reference that didn’t look specific at all, a forceful abstract pattern with the subtlest of concessions to perspective, a taut graphic device that hit the eye like a logo — a logo for nothing but itself.”
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“Many critics have attempted over the years to peg Moskowitz’s work to a particular movement, noting his work’s similarities to movements like Pop and Minimalism, as well as a figurative painterly mode that emerged during the 1970s. But Moskowitz’s work conformed to no dominant aesthetic style, flirting with what was en vogue and then subverting it.”– @alexgreenberger
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Thank you @artnews
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Robert Moskowitz (1935-2024)
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Robert Moskowitz, the quintessential New York painter who made a rare bridge between a proceeding generation of abstract expressionist artists and the abstract minimal impulses of his own generation, all while never abandoning the image, has died. He was 88.
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Exhibition News: “Robert Moskowitz: Paintings and Drawings from Four Decades,” opens at @peterfreemaninc
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March 14-May 16, 2024
Opening Reception: Thurs, Mar 14, 6-8p
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The exhibition, curated by Dieter Schwartz, traces some of the artist’s most major motifs over the decades.
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Opening: "Robert Moskowitz: Paintings from the 1960’s and 1970’s"
Saturday, April 1, 6-8p
Kerry Schuss Gallery, 73 Leonard Street, NYC
Image: Robert Moskowitz, Untitled, 1962, aluminum paint, collage on canvas, 39.5 x 54 in (100.3 x 137.2 cm)
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#onview at @sheldonmuseum
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“Teapot,” 1976, acrylic and oil on canvas, 90 x 75 in (228.6 x 190.5 cm) Collection of the Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE. Olga N. Sheldon Acquisition Trust, U-6948.2021
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Included in “Storyville: The Intersection of Abstraction, Allusion and Depiction” on view through December 22.
In this exhibition, the artist and viewer share equally in the creation of a work’s meaning. “Storyville”presents works from the museum’s collection that vacillate between recognizable subject matter and abstraction, providing various readings of each narrative. In addition to this work by Moskowitz, the exhibition includes works by #CarlosAlfonzo #JonathanBorofsky #DerekBoshier #JoAnneCarson #DexterDalwood #JeddGaret #PhilipGuston #ClayKetter #ElizabethMurray #LariPittman #LisaSanditz #PeterSaul #RaymondSaunders #FritzScholder #TLSolien #LeslieWayne and #RobertYarber.
This work was previously exhibited in the historic “New Image Painting” at @whitneymuseum in 1978.
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