Van Buren / Goldberg – Paintings
Richard Van Buren, Glen Goldberg
February 21–March 15, 2004

Sideshow Presents Artwork by Goldberg and Van Buren

Sideshow Gallery is pleased to present new abstract paintings by Glenn Goldberg and thermoplastic sculpture by Richard Van Buren. This exhibition opens on Saturday, February 21, 2004 and continues through March 15, 2004. The opening reception will be held on Saturday, February 21, from 6 to 9 p.m.

The artwork of both Goldberg and Van Buren explores botanical and biological organisms. Goldberg employs his familiar circle-based forms to compose paintings of birds and delicate flowers. Van Buren's baroque thermoplastic outbursts, which look like a cross between the human nervous system and rock formations, coral or barnacles, materialize his imagination of the dynamics of a mutating, organic geometry. Photographs of Goldberg's and Van Buren's artwork may be viewed at: www.sideshowgallery.com.

Goldberg has exhibited work in solo exhibitions at the Charles Cowles Gallery, Dartmouth College, Galerie Albrecht in Munich and many other galleries and arts institutions. He is the recipient of fellowships from the S. R. Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His work is part of the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and other institutions.

A recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 2001, Van Buren has had a long association with the Paula Cooper Gallery, where he had a number of solo exhibitions during the 1970s. Since the 1960s he has held teaching posts at the School of Visual Arts and Parsons School of Design. His work is part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.