The Paintings of Sylvia Plimack Mangold - Hardcover

Brutvan, Cheryl

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555951031 ISBN 13: 9781555951030

Publisher: Hudson Hills Pr, 1994

Synopsis

Plimack Mangold's work has evolved from early renderings of floors, mirrors, and rooms to landscapes (by day and by night), skyscapes, and "portraits" of individual trees done at her outdoor Hudson River valley studio. She reinvented these traditional subjects by wrestling with the very process by which the artist creates illusion, then letting the viewer in on her secret by bordering the image with illusionary "masking tape" (meticulously recreated with paint and brush) that simultaneously acknowledges and denies the painted surface.
This lavishly illustrated, full-color volume is published in conjunction with a retrospective exhibition of Plimack Mangold's paintings organized by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, and traveling to Hartford, Houston, and Boston. Covering more than a quarter-century of work, it includes a monographic essay by Cheryl Brutvan, Curator at the Albright-Knox, as well as full documentation of the artist's career to date: Chronology, Selected Bibliography, and Selected Exhibitions and Reviews. It also reproduces a number of pages from the artist's notebooks, providing a rare, privileged glimpse at the thoughtful intelligence and aesthetic beliefs that underlie these magical canvases, canvases that give expression to the intimate reality of the artist's existence, give form to the intangible.

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From Publishers Weekly:

Although Plimack Mangold paints everyday objects with meticulous accuracy, she is perhaps best described as a painter of illusions. Her studies of floorboards were made in the 1960s and '70s under the minimalist influence of her husband, artist Robert Mangold, and other contemporaries. These unsettling pictures draw the viewer into an intimate, eerie space. Some images are framed by illusionary "masking tape," painted to look like actual tape, thereby expanding the artist's commentary on the different planes of reality and illusion. Her explorations of color in moody, nocturnal landscapes are tinged with romantic associations. Her recent, highly gestural pictures of towering trees, made in her outdoor studio in upstate New York, evoke a private sanctuary of healing and peace. Brutvan is curator of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y.; this volume accompanies a traveling retrospective exhibition.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Hudson Hills Pr
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1555951031
• ISBN 13: 9781555951030
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144