Robert Kushner Painter + Artist

Robert Kushner | DC Moore Gallery | ARTFORUM, February 2013

“Since the 1980s, Robert Kushner has used flowers as his signature motif, rendering leaves and blossoms in outrageously lush colors and against complex, geometric backgrounds…. Kushner’s work attests to beauty’s fleeting nature and to the cycle of birth and death. Draining the blossoms of color, he accepts the flowers’ fragility and gently underscores a moment suspended between these two states.”

Excerpt from the full review (below) by Ida Panicelli, ARTFORUM, February 2013

Arpita Singh and Robert Kushner | DC Moore Gallery | ARTnews February 2013

“Showing in the larger gallery space were paintings by one of the founders of the Pattern and Decoration movement of the ’70s and’80s, Robert Kushner. Here the artist seemed to be deconstructing his, unabashedly sensual art.”

Excerpt from the full review (below) by Mona Molarsky for ARTnews, February 2013.

Robert Kushner, DC Moore Gallery, November 8 – December 8, 2012

Robert Kushner, Diva, 2012

Robert Kushner, Diva, 2012. Oil, acrylic, and palladium on canvas. 72 x 90 inches

Robert Kushner
November 8 – December 8, 2012
DC Moore Gallery
535 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011

Opening: SCRIPTORIUM: Devout Exercises of the Heart, La Jolla CA 6/23 -7/28 2012

You can read more about Robert Kushner’s Scriptorium here.

Please join Robert Kushner on Friday, June 22nd 2012 for the opening reception from 6:30-8:30PM.

New York Hat Line, 1979

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In 1977 and 1978, Public Access Poetry (produced by Poetry Project Greg Masters, Gary Lenhart, David Herz, Didi Susan Dubelyew, Daniel Krakauer, Bob Rosenthal and Rochelle Kraut, PAP programs) featured half-hour readings by a wide range of poets and performers . Forty-six fragile open-reel videotapes of these shows were preserved and, in 2009, were donated to the Poetry Project which has collaborated with PennSound at the University of Pennsylvania to create an online archive of these rarely seen readings.

On September 15, 1977, Robert Kushner and Ed Friedman performed “New York Hat Line.”
Click here to link to Penn Sound’s Poetry Project page and then scroll down. “New York Hat Line” is the 5th film clip.

When you’re done watching Robert Kushner and Ed Friedman, take a moment and watch the others. It’s a fantastic archive of some of New York’s ‘downtown’ poets and performers of the 70s — live.

In 1979, “New York Hat Line” by Robert Kushner with text by Ed Friedman was published. Some still images are included in this gallery:

Rush Interactive presents ‘Amy Goldin: Art in a Hairshirt’ – Robert Kushner

May 10, 2012

Rush Interactive: Amy Goldin: Art in a Hairshirt Hosted by Michael Rush Originally aired on Monday, May 7th, 2012 Though her star shone only briefly (she wrote from 1964 until her death in 1978), Amy Goldin made several original contributions to post-war art criticism, including admitting the decorative arts into larger painting-dominated criticism. Artist and [...]

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Arcadia

April 18, 2012

Given that flowers, their forms and associative meanings, have fairly obsessed me in the studio and have been the center of my passion for the last umpteen years –it often strikes me as preternatural, perhaps contrived and even humorous that I grew up in a Southern California town with the temerity to call itself Arcadia. [...]

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Performances (1970-1982): An Introduction

February 17, 2012

In the spring of 1970, I found myself able to live in New York for six months, on an independent study leave from UCSD, where I was an undergraduate. At that moment in time, happenings were a bit passé (even though I had participated in an Alan Kaprow happening on the beach in La Jolla, [...]

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The Book Launch Party for “Amy Goldin: Art in A Hairshirt, Art Criticism 1964-1978″

February 17, 2012

Thursday, February 16, 2012 was the official book launch for Amy Goldin: Art in a Hairshirt, Art Criticism 1964-1978 (Hard Press Editions). DC Moore Gallery kindly sponsored this event. Many of the contributing critics attended: Elizabeth Baker, Emna Zghal, Irving Sandler and Max Kozloff. Friends and family. And most important, a significant group of artists, [...]

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Carpets

November 16, 2011

For some years, I actively collected flat weave oriental carpets, known as kilims. I loved the softened but strong colors, the way the designs interlaced and the fact that there was really no positive or negative to the flattened shapes. After my trip to Iran and Afghanistan in 1974, where I bought a lot of carpets and saddlebags in [...]

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