| ROBERT MOSKOWITZ |
Born in New York in 1935, Robert Moskowitz studied at the Pratt Institute of Art under Bradley Walker Tomlin and Adolph Gottlieb. His work has been exhibited at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland. Moskowitz’s paintings and pastels are preserved in The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, among other public collections.
Moskowitz emerged from the Minimalist movement of the 1970s to become what has been called a “New Image” painter, depicting everyday objects disassociated from their settings in a simplified and quirky representational style. Although he has mainly dealt with architectural forms, he has also borrowed images from earlier art and the everyday world, transforming them into flat silhouettes which seem to float, mysteriously, in an undefined space.
An original, limited edition print, Cadillac/ Chopsticks reproduces Moskowitz’s well-known painting of the same title from 1975, which is now in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (acrylic on canvas, 90 by 75 inches; inv. #85.73).
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