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Mitch Glassman is a American contemporary artist. He works in...

demonstrating an open system of language which transcends national identiy

Glassman earned a B.A at Syracuse University and then studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Mass College of Art. He also studied something at the Central Academy of Art in Beijing. Is that "China Central Academy of Fine Arts"?

He pursued additional independent studies in several other cities/countries including China, Tibet, Jerusalem, Israel, St. Petersburg, Russia, & Italy.

His work has been shown in many exhibits nationally and is part of numerous private, corporate, and institutional collections including:


 * The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
 * Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
 * Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
 * Massachusetts Millennium Hotel, Boston, MA
 * Millenium Hotel, Boston
 * DG Capital Management, Boston, MA
 * The Jonathan and Barbara Lee Collection, Brookline, MA
 * Collection at Palazzo Michiel Berlendis, Venice, Italy

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Art is optimistic when it recognizes the insurmountable problem. The task is to step back from our ordered world and recognize the possibilities. For this artist, the challenge has been discerned in the nature of silence and how that unfolds in time and space; and how by serendipity it may offer insight.

If minimalism aims at doing more with less… and less, than further still there is the pursuit of absolute silence. Silence may not have voice but in the artist’s mind it does have language, gesture, timeless text. Mitch Glassman’s mark making has evolved into a script coined marcography; a semantic coding of existential relationships; a silent dialogue revealing relationships in nature, science, poetry and prose; offering an intense affect that may bridge the gap between perceived irreconcilable differences.

If there is truth in the notion (paraphrasing Gilles Deleuze ) that Humans territorialize themselves through language, then pre-constructed language deterritorializes us; no longer controllable or recognizable, taking us beyond temporality… revealing the potential of language and cultures to encounter and create, rather than reinforce already constituted forms.

The artist spent several months in the Middle East working with Palestinian and Israeli artists during the Intifada (2002), and in China and Tibet (1998), during the efforts of cultural genocide, demonstrating an open system of language which transcends nation identity. The abstract nature of the mark making (marcography) drew each culture to the work as if it were a trace of their own and in recognition of an insurmountable problem.

Exhibits

 * 2009: Farm Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
 * 2007: Barbara Krakow Gallery, AIDS Benefit Exhibition
 * 2006: National Prize Show
 * 2005-06: USEA Logan International Airport Installation
 * 2004-06: Harcus Gallery, 6 Melrose St., Boston, MA
 * 2004-05: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Council's Patron Exhibit
 * 2003-05: Bernard Toale Gallery, Drawing Exhibit, Boston, MA
 * 2003-04: Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA, AIDS benefit exhibit
 * 2002: United South End Juried Exhibit, Boston
 * 2002: Boston Drawing Project, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston
 * 2002: Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA, AIDS Benefit Exhibit
 * 2001: Gallery: MPG, Newbury St., Boston, MA
 * 2001: Boston Drawing Project @ Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
 * 2001: National Prize Show, Cambridge, MA
 * 2001: Silvermine Guild Gallery, New Canaan, Connecticut
 * 2000: Cambridge Art Association Juried Exhibit, Cambridge
 * 2000: Boston Artists Exhibition, New Chardon St. Courthouse, Boston
 * 1999: Drawing Show, SMFA
 * 1999: Huntington Gallery, Boston, Group Show
 * 1999: Doran Gallery, Boston, Group Show