Treason, 1998
Oil on canvas
38h x 36 in.
Futile Ambassador, 1989
Oil on canvas
60 x 54 in.
Untitled, 1991
Oil on canvas
16 x 12 in.
Untitled, 1978
Tempera on paper
22 x 15 in.
Wild Things, 1993
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 in.
Untitled, 1988
Watercolor on paper
30 x 22 in.
The New Dawn, 1988
Oil on canvas
58 x 50 in.
Untitled, c. 1985
Oil on paper
30 x 22.25 in.
Untitled, c. 1980
Oil on paper
24.5 x 19.5 in.
Untitled, c. 1985
Oil on paper
30 x 22 in.
Untitled, c. 1988
Tempera on paper
15 x 20 in.
Night Life, 1992
Oil on canvas
24 x 20 in.
Untitled, 1990
Oil on canvas
24 x 18 in.
The Garden Gate: A Man’s Estate, 1987
Oil on canvas
51 x 58 in.
The Garden Gate, 1987
Oil on canvas
30 x 36 in.
Untitled, c. 1990
Watercolor on paper
8 x 6 in.
Untitled, 1990
Watercolor on paper
12 x 17 in.
The Broken Bough, 1990
Oil on canvas
54 x 60 in.
Untitled, 2003
Watercolor on paper
10 x 7 in.
Untitled, c. 1990
Tempera on paper
17 x 14 in.
Untitled, 1989
Watercolor on paper
22 x 30 in.
The Boulevard, 1991
Oil on canvas
18 x 14 in.
Untitled, c. 1980
Oil on paper
19.5 x 14 in.
Rosenberg & Co. is pleased to present Jeffrey Wasserman, an exhibition focused on paintings and works on paper by the American artist. Spanning several critical decades of his practice, the exhibition traces the evolution of Wasserman’s distinctive abstract vocabulary as a key figure in New York’s downtown art scene of the 1970s.
Jeffrey Wasserman offers a rare opportunity to revisit the work of an artist whose contribution to postwar American abstraction remains underrecognized. With its celebration of color, gesture, and intuitive form, the exhibition engages with the unique visual language Wasserman developed over the course of a richly experimental career.
About the artist: Born to first-generation Americans of Russian Jewish descent, Wasserman was raised in Westchester County, New York. He studied under the noted Color Field painter Friedel Dzubas before earning his BFA in Painting from the Tyler School of Art in 1968. In 1969, he attended the Royal College of Art in London, where he studied alongside Francis Bacon. Upon returning to New York, he worked as an assistant to abstract painter Edward Avedisian in SoHo. Immersed in the creative energy of the emerging East Village arts scene, Wasserman exhibited regularly and cultivated an inventory of enigmatic abstract motifs that became hallmarks of his mature style.
