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Explore Michael Goldberg’s biography, achievements, artworks, auction results, and shows on Artsy. Heavily involved in the New York avant-garde scene of the 1940s and ’5
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Michael Goldberg was an American artist best known for his Abstract Expressionist paintings and involvement with the New York School, which is also associated with Philip Guston and Willem de Kooning. Goldberg’s signature works are hallmarked by their expressive brushwork and free association abstraction, combining Western European painting traditions with Eastern philosophies and the ...
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Michael Goldberg (1924 – 2007) Michael Goldberg, a second generation Abstract Expressionist painter known for his action-packed, gesteral canvases, went through several phases that included monochromatic works of red and then black, bands of white on black, caligraphic images and bright bands of color hinting of architectural forms.
He and his artist wife, Lynn Umlauf, both taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York city. Goldberg was born in 1924 in the Bronx of New York City. His studies at the Art Students League, 1938-1942, were interrupted by World War II where he served as a paratrooper in North Africa and Burma, making eighty jumps behind Japanese lines.
Michael Goldberg has been featured in articles for FAD Magazine, ARTnews and Los Angeles Times. The most recent article is Nye & Company Announces Two-Day Chic and Antique Auction, July 31st -Aug. 1st written for ArtDaily in July 2024. The artist died in 2007. Artist's alternative names: Mike Goldberg
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Michael Goldberg, a second generation Abstract Expressionist painter known for his action-packed, gestural canvases, went through several phases that included monochromatic works of red and then black, bands of white on black, caligraphic images and bright bands of color hinting of architectural forms. Ever aligned with Abstract Expressionism which he described in 2001 as "still the primary ...
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In these paintings, monumentality looms and is countered as the artist modulates his touch, inducing these floating elements to turn transparent and generate a delicately pictorial light. Setting aside his oil sticks, Goldberg would fill the surface of a canvas with tangled intensity that his earlier brushwork never attained.
