Ode to Michael Goldberg: Selective Thievery and the Practice of Looking (Back to events)
- Sat, Sep 13th 2008, 6:30pm
- Located at : 1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo NY
The University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery is pleased to present the memorial exhibition, Ode to Michael Goldberg: Selective Thievery and the Practice of Looking. There will be a public reception this evening.
Michael Goldberg (1924-2007) is known for his large-scale abstract paintings which reflect the early influence of Abstract Expressionism on his sixty year long career. In addition to a group of important paintings from the University’s collection, loans of artwork from several private collection and public institutions,many shown publicly for the first time in years, provides a unique opportunity to observe the development and evolution of the artist’s life and work through drawings, paintings and prints dating from the 1940s to the 1980s.
Ode to Michael Goldberg traces the evolution of Goldberg’s work beginning with the early cubist inspired drawings of the ‘40s, the monumental nonobjective paintings of the early ‘60s, the abstracted landscape and still-lifes from the mid- to late ‘60s, monochromatic paintings of the ‘70s and ending with his use of grids in the ‘80s. The grid was the structure that informed Goldberg’s most recent work, which was exhibited at Knoedler & Company, New York, shortly before his death in December of 2007.
Image: Untitled, 1965
September 13, 6:30PM; FREE
Exhibit through January 18
UB Anderson Gallery
1 Martha Jackson Place
716.829.3754
