Robert Mangold

Robert Mangold was born 1937 in North Tonawanda, New York. He studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art and at Yale University. After his studies he moved to New York with his wife, artist Sylvia Plimack. He took an employment as a security guard at the Museum of Modern Art, where he would meet and fraternize with several other aspiring artists. 

Mangold is one of the seminal figures in the postwar minimalist movement. His work is mostly compromised of simple elements which are assembles through complex means. As all minimalist paintings, they calling typical connotations of conceptions of painting, often appearing to be objects rather than images.  Mangold almost exclusively works in extensive series on both paintings and works on paper. 

He still lives and works in New York City and continually exhibits in great institutions in the U.S. and worldwide. He lives and works in Washingtonville, New York.