Marty Greenbaum Explained

Marty Greenbaum
Birth Date:1934 3, mf=yes
Birth Place:Coney Island, New York
Alma Mater:University of Arizona
Brooklyn College

Marty Greenbaum (1934 in New York City – 2020) was an American painter, mixed media assemblage and book artist.[1] [2]

Life

Marty Greenbaum grew up in Coney Island, Brooklyn.[3] In 1952 he attended the University of Arizona with a basketball scholarship and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in 1956. He received his Master's degree in art studies in 1991 from Brooklyn College.

Greenbaum is best known for his mixed media assemblage, painting and artist books[4] “At a time when most of his contemporaries were calculating how to harden their edges or revamp their styles with the window dressings of Camp, this primal mixed media whizkid from Coney Island labored like an entranced shaman, to conjure up zanily beautiful art brut paintings and weird, wax-drizzled voodoo alter assemblages that resembled nothing so much as the ritual artifacts of some lost psychedelic tribe!”[5]

Greenbaum appeared in three films: Hallelujah the Hills in 1963 by Adolfas Mekas,[6] [7] [8] Life Dances On,[9] [10] in 1980 by Robert Frank, and The Present in 1996 by Robert Frank. Between 1962 and 1965 he took part in happenings by Allan Kaprow and experimental dance by Yvonne Rainer.[11] Greenbaum authored his own happenings, i.e. Coney Island Carny, including artists such as Eddie Barton, Remy Charlip, Paul Kaplow, Paul Krasner, Al Hanson, Ed Blair, Allen Ginsberg, John Hamond, Eddie Rabkin, Lou Gosset, Renee Renee, Allan Kaprow, Phyllis Yampolsky, Thomas Hoving, Jackie Ferrara, Peter Schumann, Jim Bell, Bill Marshall, Corla Lopez, Bruce Waite, and Mark di Suvero,[12] as well as organizing the Hall of Issues[13] [14] with Phyllis Yampolsky at The Judson Memorial Church.

Greenbaum had several teaching positions in the New York City public school system and was a member of the Creative Artists Public Service program twice, he also participated in various exhibitions with book objects.[15] His work is in several public collections including The Art Institute of Chicago,[16] Artists' Books, The Brooklyn Museum Collection,[17] The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, Citibank, NYC, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, SUNY at New Paltz, NY and more.

Books as Objects

"Greenbaum, an early conceptualist, burned books in the 1960s, exhibiting the remains as 'corpses.' Today, he makes fetishistic notebooks filled with colored paper and scribbled equations, accretions of feathers and Rhoplex."[18]

"Marty Greenbaum and Barton Benes destroy texts to create sculpture: Benes 'Bound Book,' a literal rope and wax imprisonment, and Greenbaum's 'Cutting Up,' a mixed media paste over of muted colors."[19] Some of his most notable artist books include: "Batman" 1963-67,[20] "In '84 Returned in 2004" In Marty's words, "Many techniques and strategies have been used in my mixed media books. By the time of 'In '84 Returned in 2004' I was cutting out shapes and opening up areas in the pages of a finished or an empty book. This device mirrored my sense of movement through space and time, the turning of the pages like a walk through the city, became an exploration of a multidirectional experience, ricocheting back and forth -- the going out and the coming back, the going forward and the return."[21]

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Group and Traveling exhibitions (selection)

Awards (selection)

External links

Notes and References

  1. catalog on documenta 6 / Volume 3: Hand drawings, utopian design, books; Page 316 Kassel 1977
  2. McCormack . Jeannie . Remembering Artist Marty Greenbaum (1934-2020) . Gallery & Studio, Arts Journal . 3 January 2021 . 2 . Fall 2020 . 17 February 2021.
  3. News: Bourdon . David . Marty and Lulu's Playground . The Village Voice . 1965.
  4. Web site: Frank . Peter . Wilson . Martha . Artists' Books U.S.A. - Exhibitions - Independent Curators International . Independent Curators International . 17 February 2021.
  5. McCormack . Jeannie . Remembering Artist Marty Greenbaum (1934-2020) . Gallery & Studio, Arts Journal . 3 January 2021 . 2 . Fall 2020 . 17 February 2021.
  6. News: Brody . Richard . The New Yorker .
  7. Web site: Mekas . Adolfas . Hallelujah the Hills . IMDB . Vermont . 17 February 2021 . 15 September 1966.
  8. Web site: Hallelujah the Hills . Gartenberg Media Enterprises . 17 February 2021.
  9. Web site: Frank . Robert . Life Dances On... . National Gallery of Art . 4 February 1980 . 17 February 2021.
  10. Web site: Houston . Museum of Fine Arts . Life Dances On . The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
  11. Book: Banes . Sally . Democracy's Body: Judson Dance Theater, 1962-1964 . 1993 . Duke University Press . Durham and London . 978-0-8223-1399-1 . 176.
  12. Web site: Greenbaum . Marty . Coney Island Carny . The Fales Library & Special Collections . NYU . 16 February 2021.
  13. News: Dunbab . Jill . Looking Back at Judson Church's Twenty Year Ministry of Avant Garde Arts . The villager . July 14, 1977 . 13.
  14. Web site: Young . Allison . Remembering a time when New York's art scene was run by artists . Apollo: The International Art Magazine . 13 March 2017 . March 13, 2017.
  15. http://www.martygreenbaum.com/resume Website Marty Greenbaum
  16. Web site: Marty S. Greenbaum . The Art Institute of Chicago . 17 February 2021 . en.
  17. Web site: Chisnell . Jennifer . On display: New acquisitions in artists' books at Brooklyn Museum . New York Art Resources Consortium . June 19, 2011.
  18. News: Trebay . Guy . Beyond Content - Books As Art . The Village VOICE . January 10, 1977.
  19. News: Brannon . Anthony . Unique Techniques Expressed In Exhibit of Books by Artists . Buffalo Evening News . April 15, 1977.
  20. Web site: Library . The Fales . The Fales Library: "Batman" (1963-1967) . The Fales Library . 4 March 2021 . 5 January 2011.
  21. Web site: Greenbaum . Marty . In '84 Returned in 2004 . Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives . Marty Greenbaum . 4 March 2021 . 1984.
  22. Diary & Pointer . Art on Paper . 2001 . 6 . 79.
  23. News: Bourdon . David . Marty Greenbaum and Lulu . the village VOICE . January 13, 1965.
  24. Web site: Coalition . Texas Art . One Plus One Equals Three . www.texasartistscoalition.org. 8 January 2019 .
  25. Web site: Sorcery and Craft . Allanstoneprojects . 18 February 2021 . en.
  26. McCormack . Ed . "Talent 1999" at Allan Stone Gallery . Gallery & Studio, Arts Journal . Winter 1999 . 18 February 2021.
  27. Book: Schnabel . Bruce . Book Makers: Center for Book Arts First Five Years . 1979 . Center for Book Arts . The Cooper Union, New York, NY . 11 . 18 February 2021.
  28. Web site: Marty Greenbaum MoMA . The Museum of Modern Art . 18 February 2021 . en.
  29. Web site: Frank . Peter . Wilson . Martha . Artists' Books U.S.A. . Independent Curators International: Exhibitions.
  30. Web site: documenta 6 - Retrospective - documenta . www.documenta.de . 4 March 2021.
  31. Book: Documenta 6 : Kassel 1977, 24. Juni-2. Okt. . 1977 . P. Dierichs . Kassel . 3-920453-00-X . 316.
  32. Web site: Modern Art . Museum of . Artists Make Toys . www.moma.org.
  33. News: Picard . Lil . The East Village Other . 18 February 2021 . 24 . 1968 . community.28035847 .
  34. Web site: Platzker . David . Objects by Dorothea Baer, Jackie Ferrara, Marty Greenbaum, Lulu, Carolee Schneemann . Specific Object . 18 February 2021 . en.
  35. Web site: Guide to the Judson Memorial Church Archive1838-1995 . dlib.nyu.edu . 18 February 2021 . MSS.094.
  36. Web site: Marty Greenbaum - Artist . MacDowell . 17 February 2021 . en.

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