Ross Bleckner

Born in 1949, Ross Bleckner is an American artist from New York City. Bleckner's work frequently hovers between abstraction and image, with objects coming in and out of focus. Playing with repeated geometric forms that reference minimalist and op art legacies, his work often addresses themes of memory, loss, and the human body. 

Bleckner is the youngest artist ever to have a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. His series of "stripes" paintings in the 1980s revitalized interest in Op art. He has a B.A. from New York University (1971) and an M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts (1973). He is also Jewish, gay, and an activist for AIDS organizations.

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  Matrix to Impression: Contemporary and Modern prints - including works by Josef Albers, Joe Andoe, Jean Arp, Milton Avery, Nell Blaine, Stanley Boxer, John Chamberlain, Sam Francis, Stanley William Hayter, Jasper Johns, Wolf Kahn, Sol Lewitt, Joan Miró,

  January 21 - March 19, 2011
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  "Multiple Views: The Series in Contemporary Art" including prints, photography, painting and sculpture by Joe Andoe, Elliot Barowitz, Ross Bleckner, Christina Bothwell, Susan Davidoff, Stephen Harmon, Frances Murray, Jane Kelly Morais, Deanna Sirlin, and

  May 21 - July 06, 2004
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  Over the Top: Painting on a Grand Scale: Works by Ross Bleckner, Antonio Carreno, Paul Jenkins, James Meyer, Peter Nadin, Philip Tsiaras

  February 07 - April 12, 2003