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Michael Goldberg

Michael Goldberg (1924 - 2007) was active/lived in New York.  Michael Goldberg is known for Abstract expressionist painting, collage.

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.  Ever aligned with Abstract Expressionism which he described in 2001 as "still the primary visual challenge of our time", he later shrugged off the designation saying "labels come and go". (Glueck)

He was also an art educator who taught at the University of California, Berkeley from 1961 to 1962; Yale University in 1967; and the University of Minnesota in 1968.  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, maki   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6795 characters.]  Artist bio

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