1905 Building

Joshua Neustein: The Carbon Series featured an exquisite group of 60 carbon paper constructions by Joshua Neustein, minimal in execution yet bold and provocative in their capturing of spaces and illusions. The exhibition also traveled to the Grey Art Gallery at New York University.

Through the simplest actions — cutting, folding, scratching, perforating, creasing, and tearing — Neustein created an exquisite are provocative, strong visual statements. Director Schultz commented that, “Neustein presents images that capture a variety of pictorial planes that result in spaces or illusions with a multitude of implied references and even psychological expressions. These works present an abstraction pregnant with anxiety and experience.”

Neustein, who calls himself a refugee since birth, was born in Poland in 1940 and lived in Germany, Austria, and the United States before immigrating to Israel in 1964. His life and work are haunted by a need to be and to act as part and parcel of a search for identity.

This exhibition was organized by Director Douglas Schultz.