About Robert Mangold

“Printmaking exists for me as another way of expanding and clarifying an idea. This visual idea may eventually be worked on as a painting, or it may remain complete as a drawing or print. Some ideas seem best served on a sheet of paper, where the paper and image become one, as opposed to the more physical presence of a painting on a wall. ”

— Robert Mangold

Associated with the Minimalist art movement of the 1960s, Robert Mangold (b. 1937) developed a reductive vocabulary based on geometric forms, monochromatic color, and an emphasis on the flatness of the painted picture plane. Within this seemingly austere repertoire, his work has evolved over time to a heightened complexity and lyricism through the use of innovatively shaped asymmetric and multiple-panel canvases, curvilinear lines that connect and unify geometric shapes, and ineffable and surprising color combinations. Printmaking, which Mangold began professionally in 1968 with a group of screenprints published by Fischbach Gallery, New York, was a natural fit for an artist drawn to working in series and experimenting with variations on a theme. Prints became, in fact, an area where Mangold often first developed visual ideas that later appeared in his paintings, and he has to date completed over two hundred print editions, many in serial portfolios. In collaboration with the Robert Mangold Studio, Betsy Senior is pleased to maintain the artist’s print archive and catalogue raisonné of his print editions.