JACK GOLDSTEIN X 10,000
curated by Philipp Kaiser and Joanna Montoya
The Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Ave at 92nd St - New York
10/5/2013 al 29/9/2013
The first American retrospective of the Canadian-born artist Jack Goldstein (1945 - 2003) brings to light his important legacy. This comprehensive exhibition frames Goldstein as a central figure of the Pictures Generation of the 1970s and 1980s and showcases his influential paintings and films, while also including installations, writings, and pioneering sound recordings. The artists of the Pictures Generation, such as Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine, Laurie Simmons, Barbara Kruger, David Salle and Robert Longo, explored a new stylistic vocabulary grounded in their interest in popular culture, appropriating images from books, magazines, advertisements, television, and film.
Goldstein transformed, restaged, and remade films in such a way as to strip out specific details, context, and function. Exhibition highlights include his celebrated film of a growling Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion. Another signature work is the film The Jump featuring a leaping diver, performing a somersault and disintegrating into fragments. Given Goldstein's legacy and his increasing relevance to younger artists, this long overdue retrospective is essential to a larger re-evaluation of post-1960s American art.
The artist
Born to a Jewish family in Montreal in 1945, Jack Goldstein moved to Los Angeles as a child, and he lived and worked in Los Angeles and New York City. He studied in the late 1960s at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles and then at the newly founded California Institute of the Arts under John Baldessari. In 1972 he became one of the first recipients of a CalArts Master of Fine Arts degree, and in 1977 was included in the seminal exhibition Pictures at Artists Space in New York.
The exhibition is accompanied by a 240-page, fully illustrated catalogue co-published with Prestel which is available from The Jewish Museum’s Cooper Shop for $49.95. Included are essays by Philipp Kaiser, Douglas Crimp, and Alexander Dumbadze, as well as a photo essay by James Welling. The catalogue also includes a previously unpublished 2001 interview with Goldstein by artist Meg Cranston.
curated by Philipp Kaiser and Joanna Montoya
The Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Ave at 92nd St - New York
10/5/2013 al 29/9/2013
The first American retrospective of the Canadian-born artist Jack Goldstein (1945 - 2003) brings to light his important legacy. This comprehensive exhibition frames Goldstein as a central figure of the Pictures Generation of the 1970s and 1980s and showcases his influential paintings and films, while also including installations, writings, and pioneering sound recordings. The artists of the Pictures Generation, such as Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine, Laurie Simmons, Barbara Kruger, David Salle and Robert Longo, explored a new stylistic vocabulary grounded in their interest in popular culture, appropriating images from books, magazines, advertisements, television, and film.
Goldstein transformed, restaged, and remade films in such a way as to strip out specific details, context, and function. Exhibition highlights include his celebrated film of a growling Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion. Another signature work is the film The Jump featuring a leaping diver, performing a somersault and disintegrating into fragments. Given Goldstein's legacy and his increasing relevance to younger artists, this long overdue retrospective is essential to a larger re-evaluation of post-1960s American art.
The artist
Born to a Jewish family in Montreal in 1945, Jack Goldstein moved to Los Angeles as a child, and he lived and worked in Los Angeles and New York City. He studied in the late 1960s at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles and then at the newly founded California Institute of the Arts under John Baldessari. In 1972 he became one of the first recipients of a CalArts Master of Fine Arts degree, and in 1977 was included in the seminal exhibition Pictures at Artists Space in New York.
The exhibition is accompanied by a 240-page, fully illustrated catalogue co-published with Prestel which is available from The Jewish Museum’s Cooper Shop for $49.95. Included are essays by Philipp Kaiser, Douglas Crimp, and Alexander Dumbadze, as well as a photo essay by James Welling. The catalogue also includes a previously unpublished 2001 interview with Goldstein by artist Meg Cranston.
