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Born in 1927 in Brooklyn, NY, USA


2000: Harvestworks, Digital Media Arts Center, New York, NY

1988: Art Students League, Studied with Leo Manso, New York, NY

1967: BA, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY


" My painting questions artistic facture and form as carriers of emotional meaning. To investigate this, I reformulate paintings that I had produced within the past decade, made in gestural and intuitive modes, and then I translate elements of these images into highly simplified, flat shapes. By using this systematic process, I evoke a dialogue between painterly and constructive visual language.

My aim is to achieve a 'presence' in the work without a sense of urgency. Toward this end, I manipulate selected shapes by enlarging them, eliminating extraneous detail and visible brushwork, reducing modulated color to uniform planes, and refining the edges to become contour lines at once irregular and sharp. My goal is to monumentalize form into something provocatively ambiguous. I want to depict nature without necessarily showing it.

These effects, I hope, will suggest a slowing of time and a sense of quietude, as if at the edge of stasis. Despite the absence of expressionistic visual drama, and facilitated by the confines of my methodical process, I seek to make work that has emotional weight."

Phyllis Goldberg, March 2001

  • Selected Solo Exhibitions
    • 1996: Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

    • 1994:
        Johnson State College , Johnson, VT

        Goddard College, Plainfield, VT

    • 1993: Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT


  • Selected Group Exhibitions
    • 2000: The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, New York, NY,

    • 1998:
        Washington Square East Gallery, New York University, New York, NY, Small Works Show

        Ridge Street Gallery, New York, NY

    • 1995:
        Marcus Hoffman Gallery, Dachau, Germany

        Dachau, Germany, 50 Years After! International Exhibition Invitational

    • 1993: Provincetown Art Association Museum, Provincetown, MA

    • 1990: Washington Square East Gallery, New York University, New York, NY, Small Works Show

    • 1988: Arsenal Gallery, New York, NY


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    • 2000:
        Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation

        Residency, Millay Colony for the Arts

        Residency, Yaddo

    • 1999:
        Residency, The Space Program, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation

        Residency, Yaddo

        Grant, The Thanks Be to Grandmother Winifred Foundation

    • 1998: Residency, Yaddo

    • 1997: Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Ronald S. Lauder Fellowship

    • 1994: Jurors' Citation, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College