Jack Goldstein (1945-2003), Untitled, acrylic on canvas (213.3 x 273.6 cm.)

“Painted in 1983. In Untitled, the universal topic of disaster feels totally relevant while simultaneously, there lies a sense of ambiguity without the weight of disaster. The viewer senses a kind of arbitrariness in Goldstein’s work that is fully conscious of its beauty and elegance. His presentation is about the distance between beauty and the dark side of human and natural events, how they come together through a kind of poetic sublimation. Despite its vintage, the eerie landscape painting features stunning atmospheric lights, which look surprisingly fresh. The artist’s airbrush technique was ahead of its time, presaging the look of computer-generated virtual reality long before it became commonplace.” —(J. Fisher, “Jack Goldstein: The Trace of Absence” Artforum, June 1983, pp. 61-63.)