Joshua Neustein
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| Born | 1940 (age 76–77) Danzig (modern Gdańsk, Poland) |
| Education | CCNY B.A., Pratt Institute, New York City |
| Known for | Works on Paper, Land Art, Concept,Video |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellow 1986 |
Joshua Neustein (born 1940) is a contemporary visual artist. He lives and works in New York City. He is known primarily for his Conceptual Art, environmental installations, Land Art, Ash Cities, and postminimalist torn paper works and large-scale map paintings.
Neustein was born in Danzig (Gdańsk, Poland). After studying painting at the Pratt Institute in New York City, Neustein immigrated to Jerusalem in 1964. He began to show regularly in Israel and the UK, but it was his 1971 Jerusalem River Project (collaboration with Gerry Marx and Georgette Batlle) action, a site-specific "sound sculpture" in which speakers installed across a desert valley played looped sounds of a river, that earned him more widespread recognition. Photo documentation of the piece was shown at the Israel Museum, Yvon Lambert Gallery in Paris, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MOCA LA, Tokyo Museum of Art, MAK Vienna and MACBA. During the same period, Neustein built an oeuvre of large torn paper works that received critical attention.
From 1964 to 1998, Neustein was represented by Bertha Urdang Gallery in New York and Jerusalem. Yona Fischer included Neustein in several exhibitions at the Israel Museum such as Concept Plus Information and sponsored others such as The Jerusalem River Project. In 1979 Neustein exhibited reconstructed canvases in a solo show at Mary Boone Gallery. In 1970, Neustein began the Carbon Copy Drawings, by marking the stationary with cuts, tears, folds. In 1973-77, he showed at the Yodfat Gallery and Naomi Givon Gallery Tel Aviv.
Neustein enacted "Territorial Imperative", where a dog marked his territory and Neustein documented it with posters and maps. He repeated the action in the Golan Heights at the Israeli/Syrian border (1976), Belfast, Northern Ireland (1977) between the Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods, Kassel, Germany for the Dokumenta from which he was expelled. East/West border (1977), and Krusa, German/Danish border (1978). His large-scale installations included quotidian objects such as haybales, boots, pinecones, and rainwater. During the same period, Neustein began a long, innovative exploration of drawing, amassing a large body of work that includes torn and folded works on paper, erasure drawings, and the carbon series. Neustein participated in the landmark Beyond Drawing show at the Israel Museum in 1974, curated by Yona Fischer & Meira Perry Lehmann. In 1977 Tel Aviv Museum mounted a Ten Year retrospective of Neustein's works on paper curated by Sarah Breitberg. Acclaimed art critics Robert Pincus-Witten, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe wrote extensively about the work in 1977-78.
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