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Ross Bleckner (American, b.1949) is a New York-based painter who decided to become an artist after seeing an exhibition called The Responsive Eye at the MoMA in 1965. He went on to study with Sol LeWitt and Chuck Close during his time at New York University, where he received his BA in 1971.
Summary: An interview with Ross Bleckner conducted 2016 July 6 and 8, by Linda Yablonsky, for the Archives of American Art's Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project, at Bleckner's studio in New York, New York.
ROSS BLECKNER BIOGRAPHY (continued) : Selected Group Shows: 1979 “New Painting/New York”, Hayward Gallery, London, England. 1981 “New York in Black and White”, The Museum of Modern Art/Penthouse,
Ross Bleckner was born in New York City, New York, 1949. He earned a B.A. from New York University in 1971 and an M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts in 1973...
Ross Bleckner was born in 1949 in New York and grew up in the prosperous town of Hewlett Harbor on Long Island. The first art exhibition he saw—The Responsive Eye, a show of Op art on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1965—had a strong impact on him.
An interview with Ross Bleckner conducted 2016 July 6 and 8, by Linda Yablonsky, for the Archives of American Art's Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project, at Bleckner's studio in New York, New York.
Bleckner emerged as a central figure in the revival of American painting, a position he has solidified in the 1990’s. Through various subjects and motifs – optically dizzying stripes, nocturnal landscapes,...
