Edwin Schlossberg: Diaries

Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Diaries, its third solo exhibition of Edwin Schlossberg’s work. Edwin Schlossberg is an artist and poet whose art practice carries the written word into the realm of visual art. This exhibition showcases five works from Schlossberg’s Diaries series that he created in 2020.

Schlossberg creates visual and poetic worlds using a variety of unconventional media such as aluminum, vinyl, plexiglass, and copper. One of the fathers of interactive art and design, Schlossberg developed as an artist during the 1960s in New York, as a younger member of the dynamic art scene. Working with artists such as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, and Buckminster Fuller, Schlossberg developed an art practice that was unique, focusing on the meaning of words instead of their form. What shaped his artistic development significantly was his introduction to Tatyana Grossman, a Russian printmaker and publisher who ran Universal Limited Art Editions. Grossman published Schlossberg’s first book WORDSWORDSWORDS, which was exhibited at the Jewish Museum in 1968. He has ever since been a pioneer in the field of interactive experience.