Kerry Schuss Gallery

Press Release

KS ART is pleased to announce the exhibition, Robert Moskowitz (May 6 – June 11, 2005), The focus of the exhibition is Jack, for Jack (1998–2005), a quintessentially American picture consisting of reduced, abstracted forms, and suggesting a dark, flat nocturnal highway executed with extreme one-point perspective. The painting’s title suggests Jack Kerouac’s peripatetic desire which finds its distilled expression in Robert Moskowitz’s poetic landscape of both the exterior and the interior: two white dots punctuate the dark, deep distance of a black horizon: these are headlights, one suspects, and are executed with a deft economy of means characteristic of Moskowitz’ most powerful imagery. Jack for Jack is the artists’ most recently completed work.

Consisting of only three works, this exhibition is organized with a restrained nod towards Moskowitz’s distilled economy. Without claiming to be more “pure,” this approach to art and its reception contrasts, however, with the over-loaded experiences characteristic of art viewing today. With Jack for Jack, Moskowitz leaves an iconic American landscape emblazoned in our minds: dark, bleak, and essentially unforgettable.

Robert Moskowitz is frequently described as “an artist’s artist,” whose works are characterized by painstakingly considered surfaces and whose imagery is imbued with an ineffable, poetic sensibility.

Robert Moskowitz (b.1935) had his first one-person show at the of age 27 at Leo Castelli Gallery, New York in 1962. His work was also included in the important exhibition, New Image Painting at the Whitney Museum in 1979. A mid-career retrospective was organized by the Hirschhorn Museum, Washington DC in 1989, traveling to the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California to The Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 2005, works by Moskowitz work have exhibited in a group show at Gavin Brown’s Passerby, New York and also in a one-person show at Peter Blum Gallery, New York. The artist lives and works in New York City.