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“Sombre”
1970
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 48”
On view from August 26th, 2017 through November 5th, 2017 as a part of the exhibition “LIFE: In Search of a Paradise,” at the Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design in Toyama, Japan.
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From the archive: invitation for a 1935 group exhibition at Secession Gallery in New York, which included a work of Gottlieb’s titled “Landscape” (c. 1934).
For a look at more documents from our archives, visit our website.
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Individual Support Grant Recipient Spotlight:
Greg Bray
Black with 2 sugars
2017
Paper collage on paper
24 x 36”
“Greg Bray works within a framework of linked consciousness pushing up against boundaries. Whether it’s the collective discomfort of race or the circuitous route of institutional power structures, connecting concerns of observed condition within interpretations of relative truths stemming from cultural collisions in it’s increasing interconnectivity. Challenging how we change as we confront change. His early art form grew out of the inherently and overtly political Black Arts Movement.”
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Watch Sanford Hirsch, Executive Director of the Gottlieb Foundation, read from the archive Gottlieb’s speech titled “Unintelligibility,“ at the Dedalus Foundation’s "1,000 Words: Readings from Independent Artists’ Archives."
The speech was originally delivered at the Museum of Modern Art in 1948 as a part of the forum, “The Modern Artist Speaks.”
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2017 Grant Recipient Spotlight: Judith Braun
Judith Braun, a.k.a. Weinman, or Weinperson, began as a realistic figurative painter in the 1980’s, and has periodically reinvented her art practice and persona. In the 1990’s, as Weinperson, she produced enlarged Xerox works, and was included in the “Bad Girls” show at the New Museum of Contemporary Art (@newmuseum).
Now, as Braun, she makes intricate abstract drawings, both small graphite on paper and large charcoal fingerprinted walls. The latter are site-specific ephemeral installations that have been subject of solo and group exhibitions in New York City, and throughout the US and Europe. They are sometimes executed live, for the public. She is featured in the recent documentary, “More Art Upstairs.” Braun was born in Albany, New York in 1947, and has lived and worked on the Lower East Side in New York City for many years.
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