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5/9/2012

Milton Resnick - Tom Marioni

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

Milton Resnick
Paintings 1973 - 1983

Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by Milton Resnick (1917-2004). This first exhibition of Resnick’s work at the gallery will feature seven paintings from the period 1973 - 1983.

Born in the Ukraine, Resnick came to the US as a child, discovering his interest in painting early on. He left his Brooklyn home as a youth in pursuit of his vocation. Emphatically passionate and serious, he came to colorfully exemplify the marginalized downtown bohemian artist. His unquestionable dedication to his craft, a pronounced characteristic that may have kept him distanced from his New York post-war painter contemporaries, led him to his solitary style of thick impasto in a dark palette. Resnick’s psychologically expressive paintings balance a visceral immediacy with detailed sensitivity that bears testimony to trial and reflection.

His singular ethic and primary commitment to his painting left him less interested in theory or critical movements. Yet historically Resnick’s works have a relationship to his Abstract Expressionist contemporaries, and also to European Impressionism (Cezanne and Monet.) The paintings may be seen relative to Minimalist painting practice, as well. Roberta Smith writes in his obituary in 2004:

“While Mr. Resnick’s emphasis on a continuous surface built of myriad painterly gestures was in some ways the culmination of Abstract Expressionism, the sheer materiality of his surfaces also foreshadowed the proto-Minimalist paintings and reliefs of artists like Robert Ryman, Ralph Humphrey, Frank Stella and Donald Judd”
Roberta Smith, NY Times, March 19, 2004

Milton Resnick’s paintings are in many public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the National Gallery of Art and the National Museum of American Art (Smithsonian Institution) in Washington.

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Tom Marioni
Percussion works in dry fresco

Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to announce Percussion works in dry fresco, an exhibition of works by Tom Marioni. The works are the result of actions in the tradition of his performative drawings.

“To make this series of percussion drawings I use a pencil inserted in a two-foot-long piece of bamboo and beat the pencil against the surface. I started out using rag paper, but literally beat the paper to a pulp. These works are made as dry frescos in plaster. They are an extension of the drum brush drawings I made in 1972.”
Tom Marioni

Tom Marioni is a founding member of San Francisco’s conceptual art movement, recognized internationally for his work with sound, video, light and shadow, re-thinking the definition of art practice. In 1970 he opened the Museum of Conceptual Art, a vanguard alternative space, and, at the Oakland Museum exhibited The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art, a seminal installation-performance work.

Marioni’s work is represented in the collections of MoMa New York, SFMOMA, The De Young Museum and the Orange County Museum of Art. A retrospective of his work Tom Marioni: Beer, Art and Philosophy was exhibited in 2006 at the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati (with catalog.)

Reception: Thursday Sept 6 5:30-7:30pm

Gallery Paule Anglim
14 Geary St. San Francisco
Hours: Tuesday through Friday: 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM. Saturday: 10:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Admission free

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