Robert Moskowitz: Paintings 2016-2017
Robert Moskowitz, a New York born artist, has turned to his home city for inspiration. Two works from 2016 represent the Empire State Building and the Flatiron Building in reverse silhouette, with the buildings in white against black skies. The paintings reflect two different attitudes about knowledge and representation: one inclined toward abstraction and the other towards realism.
The front gallery presents four images, three of which portray black and white leaning rectangular forms and the fourth a shape resembling a portion of the Flatiron Building. This painting, juxtaposed with the abstract forms in the adjacent works, assists in the perception of these rectangles as urban architecture, creating a cityscape within the gallery. The rectangular forms are off kilter by a few degrees. These compositions mirror visual perception, critiquing the minds' tendency to correct perspectival lines. Is it the viewer who sees things askew, or are the buildings actually tilting? The subjective and the objective become intertwined to unsettling and fascinating effect.
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Robert Moskowitz, a New York born artist, has turned to his home city for inspiration. Two works from 2016 represent the Empire State Building and the Flatiron Building in reverse silhouette, with the buildings in white against black skies. The paintings reflect two different attitudes about knowledge and representation: one inclined toward abstraction and the other towards realism.
The front gallery presents four images, three of which portray black and white leaning rectangular forms and the fourth a shape resembling a portion of the Flatiron Building. This painting, juxtaposed with the abstract forms in the adjacent works, assists in the perception of these rectangles as urban architecture, creating a cityscape within the gallery. The rectangular forms are off kilter by a few degrees. These compositions mirror visual perception, critiquing the minds' tendency to correct perspectival lines. Is it the viewer who sees things askew, or are the buildings actually tilting? The subjective and the objective become intertwined to unsettling and fascinating effect.
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