Yale Epstein was born in 1934 in Connecticut. He lives and works in Woodstock (New York).Yale Epstein’s career as a professional painter and printmaker spans over five decades. He has had more than 50 solo exhibitions in galleries in the US, France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland, and was invited to exhibit in several significant international exhibitions including Basel, Florence, Cracow, Maastricht and Hong Kong.Throughout his early developmental years as an artist in New York City, Clement Greenberg’s militant commitment to formalism was in the air and a small group of ‘radical’ artists were making history by expanding the boundaries of modern painting and changing the concepts of art. These Abstract Expressionists created an exciting environment of experimentation, and Epstein was fortunate in that his teachers were part of this movement. Hoffman, Rothko, Motherwell, Reinhardt and Bolotowsky all contributed to his aesthic awareness. From them he assimilated new concepts of color, gesture, formal balance and respect for the two-dimensional picture plane. Ultimately, he transformed these early influences into his own language, moving from concept to concept, as his lifelong explorations continued to evolve in technical, spiritual and sensual terms. In the New York area his work has been exhibited at Lincoln Center, The Bronx Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn College,The Hudson River Museum, Marymount College, The National Arts Club, The National Academy of Design, and New York University. Epstein’s work in permanent public collections includes,The Biblioteque’ National Paris,The Brooklyn Museum,, The City of Chicago, The Library of Congress, The Pew Charitable Trust, U.S. Information Agency, and Yale University. He has received commissions from numerous major U.S and international corporations, and his work is in over 70 significant corporate collections. Epstein was selected as a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome in their Visiting Artist & Scholar Program
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