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Robert Moskowitz Pastels

at Lawrence Markey
San Antonio, TX

March 7–April 13, 2007

Lawrence Markey is pleased to announce our upcoming exhibition of pastel drawings by Robert Moskowitz. This will be Moskowitz’s fourth solo exhibition at Lawrence Markey, and his first in Texas.

Since the early 1970’s, Moskowitz has assembled and mined a particular vocabulary of motifs; among these are iconic architectural images of the Empire State Building, the World Trade Towers, and the Flatiron Building, and images from the history of art derived from the works of such artists as Brancusi, Rodin, and Giacometti.

The pastels in the exhibition range in date from Red Cross, 1986, to Landing Eagle, 2006, which is a new image in Robert Moskowitz's repertory.

The pastels are richly layered to a velvet-matte finish and reveal the artist’s hand in vestiges of fingerprints and smudges. Whether in pastel or oil, Moskowitz’s work explores his signature reductive style; high contrast silhouettes, repeated in differently scaled versions, linking the past and present. Moskowitz maintains his position at the juncture of representation and abstraction, infusing his chosen imagery with perhaps ambiguous, but decidedly emotive content. Moskowitz filters well-known images through his imagination, and somehow, makes them his own.

Robert Moskowitz's exhibition history dates back to his first one person exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, in 1962, and includes the 1989-1990 retrospective exhibition held at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.