- Sylvia Plimack Mangold
Sylvia Plimack Mangold (born September 18, 1938) is an American
artist , painter,printmaker , andpastelist . She is known for her representational depictions of interiors and landscapes.Sylvia Plimack was born in
New York City , grew up inQueens , and attended theHigh School of Music and Art inManhattan . She intended to study nursing atHunter College , but her parents encouraged her to pursue her interest in art, and she was accepted into the program atCooper Union in 1956. She continued her studies atYale University and graduated with aB.F.A. in 1961. In the same year she married Yale classmate and fellow painterRobert Mangold .After studying at Yale with William Bailey, Mangold worked as a representational painter in an era when
Abstract Expressionism andMinimalism were prevalent. Her paintings in the early 1960s were photorealistic renderings of floors, compositions characterized by hard-edged angles into which mirror images were introduced, making more complex the works' illusionism. In the 1970s Mangold began painting landscapes near her home inWashingtonville, New York , and addedtrompe l'oeil elements such as metal rulers and masking tape along the borders of the images. Beginning in the 1980s, the landscape paintings focused on individual trees, their branches cropped so as to emphasize abstract shapes, yet based on observation from nature. [ [http://www.brooklynrail.org/2007/10/artseen/sylvi John Yau, "Sylvia Plimack Mangold", The Brooklyn Rail.] ]Mangold received a grant from the
National Endowment for the Arts in 1975. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at theMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston , theNeuberger Museum of Art at theState University of New York at Purchase , theAlbright-Knox Art Gallery , and theWadsworth Atheneum inHartford, Connecticut , and is represented in the aforementioned museums in Boston, Hartford, and theBrooklyn Museum of Art .She is the mother of
film director andscreenwriter James Mangold .Notes
References
* [http://www.nmwa.org/clara/search_artist_detail.asp?artist_id=22574&search=basic Biography, National Museum of Women in the Arts]
*Brutvan, Cheryl, "The Paintings of Sylvia Plimack Mangold", Hudson Hills Press, September 1994, ISBN 978-1555951030
* [http://www.riverhouseeditions.com/artists/mangold/main.html List of recent exhibitions, Riverhouse Editions]External links
* [http://collections.dallasmuseumofart.org/code/emuseum.asp?style=Text¤trecord=1&page=search&profile=objects&searchdesc=People%20contains%20Mangold&searchstring=People/,/contains/,/Mangold/,/0/,/0&newvalues=1&newstyle=single&newcurrentrecord=2 Dallas Museum of Art]
* [http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_has_
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* [http://www.niagara.edu/cam/special/art_of_80s/Artists/mangold.html Castellani Art Museum, work and critical descriptions]
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