11610 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106, United States
Robert Mangold studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1956 to 1959.
Gallery of Robert Mangold
1156 Chapel St, New Haven, CT 06511, United States
Robert Mangold studied at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture from 1960 to 1964.
On the photo – the current building of the Yale School of Art.
Gallery of Robert Mangold
180 York St, New Haven, CT 06511, United States
Robert Mangold studied at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture from 1960 to 1964.
On the photo – the current building of the Yale School of Architecture.
Career
Gallery of Robert Mangold
11 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019, United States
Robert Mangold became a guard at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1962.
Gallery of Robert Mangold
20 Island Ave #1104, Miami Beach, FL 33139, United States
Robert Mangold had a debut solo exhibition at Fischbach Gallery in 1965.
Gallery of Robert Mangold
1109 5th Ave & E 92nd St, New York, NY 10128, United States
Robert Mangold participated in the exhibition of minimalist art at the Jewish Museum in 1965.
Gallery of Robert Mangold
1071 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128, United States
Robert Mangold exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1971.
Gallery of Robert Mangold
99 Gansevoort St, New York, NY 10014, United States
Robert Mangold exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1973 and 1979.
Gallery of Robert Mangold
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611, United States
Robert Mangold exhibited at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art in 1974.
Gallery of Robert Mangold
209 E 23rd St, New York, NY 10010, United States
Robert Mangold became an instructor at the New York School of Visual Arts in 1963.
Achievements
Membership
National Academy of Design
2005
1083 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128, United States
Robert Mangold became a member of the National Academy of Design in 2005.
1156 Chapel St, New Haven, CT 06511, United States
Robert Mangold studied at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture from 1960 to 1964.
On the photo – the current building of the Yale School of Art.
Robert Mangold studied at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture from 1960 to 1964.
On the photo – the current building of the Yale School of Architecture.
Robert Mangold is an American artist who represents minimalism. Using the principles of geometry and asymmetry, his abstract paintings transmit the complex messages through such basic forms as lines, rings and other simple shapes.
Background
Robert Mangold was born on October 12, 1937, in North Tonawanda, New York, United States. He is a son of Aloysius Mangold, an organ factory worker, and Blanche Mangold, a buyer in a department store.
As a young man, Mangold lived in Buffalo, New York.
Education
Robert Mangold began his artistic training at the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1956. After some time at the illustration department, Mangold shifted to the division of fine-arts where he learned painting, sculpture, and drawing. He graduated in 1959.
The same year, he received a fellowship which allowed him to attend Yale Summer School of Music and Art in Norfolk, Connecticut. In 1960, he pursued his training at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture in New Haven. Among his classmates, there were Nancy Graves, Brice Marden, and Richard Serra. Mangold received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree a year later and a Master of Fine Arts in 1964.
The start of Robert Mangold’s career can be counted from a position of a guard at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City which he obtained in 1962. Soon, he occupied the post of an assistant in the library of the museum.
His first works made in the style of minimalism depicted monochromatic objects placed in front of the wall, as it was in ‘Grey Window Wall’. The works on masonite and plywood as well as these early paintings were demonstrated at the artist’s debut solo exhibition held in 1965 at the Fischbach Gallery. The second one came in a couple of years. During about the following ten years, Mangold had the exhibitions at many galleries in Europe and the United States including the first exhibition of Minimalist art held at the Jewish Museum the same year. In 1963, the artist joined the teacher’s staff of the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
By the end of the 1960s, Robert Mangold shifted from oil paint to the acrylic one and concentrated more on canvases than on masonite or plywood works. Due to the Guggenheim Fellowship of 1969, he moved to the Catskills region where he lived and worked till his relocation to Washingtonville, New York in the middle of the seventies. It was the time when he started to use overlapping shapes on his canvases that can be seen at his ‘A Rectangle and a Circle within a Square’.
Mangold tried his hand in printmaking for the first time in 1972. From then on, this media occupied the permanent place in his art. As a printmaker, he had collaborated with Pace Editions and Brooke Alexander Editions. The same year, Mangold joined John Weber Gallery.
Among the important exhibitions of the decade were the shows at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1971), the Whitney Museum of American Art (1973 and 1979), the couple of Documenta exhibitions in Kassel, Germany (1972, 1977) and Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (1974).
In addition to the above mentioned art presentations, Robert Mangold has demonstrated his canvases in many others museums and art galleries of the United States and abroad, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, the Venice Biennale, the Whitney Biennial, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Hallen für neue Kunst in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, the Museum Wiesbaden in Germany, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art in London and the Musée D’Orsay in Paris.
Nowadays, Robert Mangold lives and works in Washingtonville, New York. He is represented by the Gregg Shienbaum Fine Art gallery in Miami, Florida.
Quotations:
"My belief about painting is that it’s the most difficult art to grasp. And abstract painting makes it even more difficult, because the person walking in off the street doesn’t have a place to grab hold of…if you come into a room where there’s an installation or a sculpture, you know to walk around it, it exists in your space with you; there’s no way to kill time in front of a painting."
"I am attracted to generic or 'industrial' colours; paper bag brown, file cabinet gray, industrial green, that kind of thing."
"I like setting up problems for the viewer, like how do you visually deal with a ring when what’s usually in the center of a painting is very important? It's like the main course isn't there and you're having to deal with everything around what would normally be the main course."
"Art feeds off art...and artists feed off artists."
Membership
American Academy of Arts and Letters
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United States
2001
National Academy of Design
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United States
2005
Personality
Quotes from others about the person
"Robert Mangold’s paintings, are more complicated to describe than they seem, which is partly what’s good about them: the way they invite intense scrutiny, which, in the nature of good art, is its own reward." Michael Kimmelman, American author and critic
"Underneath the composure of their [Robert Mangold’s paintings] execution, there is an almost romantic vividness of experience. The contrast of this veiled undercurrent and the Apollonian restraint of the presentation make these new paintings both powerful and poignant." Robert Kushner, an American modern artist
Connections
Robert Mangold married the artist Sylvia Plimack in 1961. They have two sons named James and Andrew. Andrew Mangold is a musician and James Mangold is a film director and screenwriter.
Father:
Aloysius Mangold
Mother:
Blanche Mangold
Spouse:
Sylvia Plimack Mangold
Son:
James Mangold
Son:
Andrew Mangold
References
Robert Mangold
The monograph on Robert Mangold and a timely retrospective of his work, made in close association with the artist himself