Chris Sharp Gallery

Chris Sharp Gallery and The Approach will jointly present recent paintings by the New York-based artist Glenn Goldberg.

About the Gallery
Chris Sharp Gallery opened in Los Angeles in January 2021. Founded by writer, curator and co-founder of Lulu, Mexico City, Chris Sharp, the gallery is focused on a mixture of emerging and mid-career positions which are based in Los Angeles and abroad. The intention of the program is to present fully integrated practices in which politics are as indivisible from materials as they are from form, or which, to put it more simply, think plastically.

About the presentation
The Approach and Chris Sharp Gallery will jointly present recent paintings by the New York-based artist Glenn Goldberg. The artist asserts, “There are no birds in my work.” And yet the primary motif of this body of paintings is the silhouette of a bird. The cutout essentially functions as a structural device in works that Goldberg meticulously crafts using a systematic mark-making method resembling stitching on top of fields of vibrant color. The marks not only construct pictorial space, but are a record of concentrated attention, time, and devotion. Goldberg’s paintings refer to anti-authoritarian attitudes of the 1970s that brought political and aesthetic movements such as feminist art and pattern painting to the forefront. He states that they “attempt to facilitate the inexplicable.”