"Principal among these are his use of silkscreens, stripes, polka dots and mute charts. The silkscreens are especially important on both a visual and conceptual level. Often taking Greenberg's photographs of palm trees as their subject, they provocatively disrupt the traditional spatial organization of paintings from past centuries, in addition to distorting the viewer's sense of time, as they employ a photographic process that didn't exist in the era of Chardin."
"Modernism is pleased to present seven paintings and nine works on paper by Sheldon Greenberg in "Syncretic Overlays." Reminiscent of Robert Rauschenberg, Greenberg appropriates familiar iconography to pay homage to masters who have shaped artistic expression and to explore how their influence resonates in contemporary practice. Named after well-known songs from pop culture, Greenberg's paintings recontextualize landmark works from the canon to offer the viewer an opportunity for a postmodern reconsideration of the works' cultural, personal and temporal meanings."
Seven paintings and nine works on paper comprise the exhibition "Syncretic Overlays" by Sheldon Greenberg, which appropriates imagery from Old Masters including Jean Simeon Chardin, Edgar Degas, Gustav Klimt, Henri Matisse and Balthaus. Greenberg breaks down historic paintings and systematically reconstitutes striking elements in a contemporary style. Visual devices such as silkscreens, stripes, polka dots and mute charts unify the works. Silkscreens, often depicting the artist's palm-tree photographs, disrupt traditional spatial organization and distort temporal perception by introducing photographic processes absent in the originals. Titles drawn from well-known pop songs encourage postmodern reconsideration of cultural, personal and temporal meanings.
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