Martin Schreiber
White Fins
1972

Name: White Fins
Brand: Martin Schreiber
Price: 3500 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Martin Schreiber (1924-2005). White Fins, 1972. Painted steel. 9" h., 16" w., 6" d. Signed and dated on base. Minor staining, oxidation and paint loss evident. Metal structure itself is in perfect condition with no bent areas or conservation. Born in Berlin, Germany, after his family moved there from Poland, Martin Schreiber immigrated to the United States in 1939 to escape war-torn Europe, and later served as a US Army soldier in WWII. He was a student of the late Reuben Tam at the Brooklyn Museum Art School. Mr. Schreiber enjoyed a long and successful art career both as a commercial art director in New York City with Dell Publishing and others, and as a passionate creative geometric artist exhibiting in many NYC galleries. Perhaps stemming from his early apprenticeship in the diamond trade, his work is a commitment to the hard-edge experience. In addition to New York City, Mr. Schreiber exhibited in Miami, Palm Beach and Boca Raton Florida; Dallas, Texas; Montreal, Canada; and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Known for his highly disciplined art form, Mr. Schreiber’s work was described by Newsday’s Malcolm Preston as ‘almost surgical precision of craftsmanship.’ Through subtle changes of color and intensity, his hard-edge band style produces soft edge light vibration and illusions of spatial expansion. In his sculpture and wall constructions, the artist directs small progressions in shape and size towards the same spatial expansion witnessed in his paintings. His work can be seen at the West Palm Beach Airport, where the Schreiber Family donated a painting for the Art in Public Places program. Martin Schreiber’s work is part of the permanent collection at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. Two of Mr. Schreiber’s geometric canvasses are exhibited at the Dallas Museum of Geometric and MADI Art, in Dallas, Texas. The museum requested and curated the Martin Schreiber Retrospective in Dallas, which was on public view from October 2011 through January 2012. Solo Exhibitions: Amel Gallery, NY, October 1964 Spectrum Gallery, 1043 Madison Ave., NY, April 1967, September 1969, October 1971 Gallerie MacKay, Montreal, Canada, January 1968 NassauCountyMuseum at Garvies Point, November 1972 Razor Gallery, 464 West Broadway, NY, April 1974, April 1976, May 1978 Documenta Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 1979 West Broadway Gallery, NY, April 1981 Pleiades Gallery, 164 Mercer St. NY, November 1983, September 1985, June 1987, May 1991 Freeport Memorial Library, October 1988 Group Shows Panoras Galarie, New York City, 1955 (Two-man show) Mary Washington College, Virginia, 1964 The ContemporaryArtsCenter, Cincinnati, Ohio, Motion and Movement, 1964 CorcorranMuseum Lending Library, Washington, D.C., 1964, 1965, 1966 Silvermine Connecticut 16th New England Annual, 1965 Awarded 1st prize in acrylics (juried by Thomas Messer, GuggenheimMuseum) OhioUniversity, Optics and Kinetics, April1965-October 1966 Museum of Modern Art Lending Library, 1966 American Federation of Arts, traveling Op Show: Op Art & Its Antecedents, 1966-67 NassauCommunity College, Print Show, Purchase Award, 1971 NassauCommunity College, Invitational Sculpture Show, 1976 Documenta Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1976 PeterDrewGallery, Palm Beach, Florida, 1984 FineArtsMuseum of Long Island, 1988 NassauCommunity College, National Competition on Paper, 1988 The Artists’ Guild in Palm Beach, 2000-2004 Art Fusion Galleries, Miami, Florida, 2012-2013

Creator:

Martin Schreiber (1923, American)

Creation Year:

1972

Dimensions:

Height: 9 in (22.86 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)Depth: 5 in (12.7 cm)

Medium:

Steel

Movement & Style:

Hard-Edge

Period:

1970-1979