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Irving Kriesberg, Maternal Image, 1958, il on canvas 40 x 32 in. (101.6 x 81.3 cm). Gift of Anonymous donor; Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, 2005 (SN11126.2)
A recent exhibition at the Ringling Museum of Art highlighted the diversity among the generations of painters who painted within the Expressionist mode during the 1940s, 50s and 60s.
Read moreThree of Kriesberg’s innovative mobile paintings from the 1950s will be on view from September 15 to November 21, 2020 at Anita Shapolsky Gallery in the group exhibition Off the Wall.
In 1945, Kriesberg got a job with the Arkraft Strauss Sign Corporation and created artwork that animated large Broadway "spectaculars," which were iconic illuminated signs, replete with special effects and movable parts. Kriesberg’s interest in animation and sequential imagery led to an experimental drive to display his own paintings in ways that distanced them from traditional viewing methods. In the 1950s, Kriesberg began to construct multiple panel paintings that are double sided and affixed to armatures where they can be rotated. Each panel has the ability to be manually turned to reveal multiple compositions, thereby expanding the viewer’s pictorial perspective and extending the painting off the wall in a manner akin to sculpture in the round.
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Irving Kriesberg, Departure, 1994, oil on canvas, 66 x 59 in. (167.6 x 149.9 cm). Collection of the Estate of Irving Kriesberg.
Max Beckmann was born on this day in 1884. Beckmann's style of figurative art that blends the spiritual and profane through a unique painterly lens and makes allegorical commentary on contemporary life, had a profound impact on Kriesberg's own art making.
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