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Chris Sharp Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of paintings by the New York-based artist, Glenn Gold-berg.
A unique, idiosyncratic figure among the landscape of contemporary painting, 71-year-old, Bronx-native Glenn Goldberg’s work is delightfully difficult to categorize, and for this reason alone, stands out and refreshes the discus – sion around the world’s oldest medium. “There are no birds in my work,” says Goldberg of his most recent body of paintings, whose primary motif just happens to be the silhouette of a bird. Never mind that the avian cutout essentially functions as a structural device, the beauty and felicitous, koan-like logic of this statement starts to make perfect sense when you consider everything else that’s going on in his paintings. Meticulously crafted via a systematic mark-making method which resembles stitching on top of demarcated fields of vibrant color, the paintings are liable to bring to mind everything from Persian rugs to...More
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Chris Sharp Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of paintings by the New York-based artist, Glenn Gold-berg.
A unique, idiosyncratic figure among the landscape of contemporary painting, 71-year-old, Bronx-native Glenn Goldberg’s work is delightfully difficult to categorize, and for this reason alone, stands out and refreshes the discus – sion around the world’s oldest medium. “There are no birds in my work,” says Goldberg of his most recent body of paintings, whose primary motif just happens to be the silhouette of a bird. Never mind that the avian cutout essentially functions as a structural device, the beauty and felicitous, koan-like logic of this statement starts to make perfect sense when you consider everything else that’s going on in his paintings. Meticulously crafted via a systematic mark-making method which resembles stitching on top of demarcated fields of vibrant color, the paintings are liable to bring to mind everything from Persian rugs to...More
