The Approach

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

About the Gallery
The Approach is co-directed by Jake Miller and Emma Robertson. Located in Bethnal Green above The Approach Tavern, for over twenty-five years it has operated an internationally recognised programme from its East London base. The gallery is known for discovering artists and establishing their careers as well as making intergenerational curated group shows a strong focus.

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.”