Artist Talk: Lawrence Hultberg

An American photographer, digital artist and abstract painter, Lawrence Hultberg’s parents were active in the New York School of Art that fostered some of the most notable and celebrated artists of the 20th century, most who were close family friends. Though he was not classically trained and considers himself self-taught, Hultberg feels he greatly benefitted from his surroundings and exposure to a wide range of prominent influences within the world of Modern Art, a veritable who’s who of American mid-century modern artists that comprised the New York contemporary art scene at the time.
This talk was given on January 6, 2024 at 1515 Lincoln Gallery in Oklahoma City during the exhibition, Generative Abstracts, which runs through January 27. The exhibit features the abstract expressionist paintings of Paul Hultberg using fired porcelain enamel on copper produced in the 1960’s and 70’s, paired with the abstract mixed media paintings on paper by his son, Lawrence Hultberg.
Paul Hultberg (1926-2019) was a printmaker, a painter, a photographer and an art professor, but over his extensive career, Hultberg gained international recognition for his innovative work in enameling, on a scale well beyond how the medium had traditionally been utilized historically. Hailed as an innovator in his field, Hultberg’s abstract expressionist works have been compared to Jackson Pollack and Clyfford Still. He exhibited worldwide, including two world fairs, multiple museums and gallery shows, and was featured in the seminal exhibit, OBJECTS:USA, considered a watershed exhibition in the history of the American studio craft movement; a groundbreaking survey collection of craft works by artists from across the United States, collected by the Johnson Wax Company, that successfully "blurred lines between art and craft, artist and artisan".
For more information about the exhibit and the artwork go to the 1515 Lincoln Gallery website at: 1515lg.com/exh....
You can see a video of the exhibit here on on this KZbin channel:
• Generative Abstraction...
You can also watch a short award winning film about enamelist, Paul Hultberg, on this KZbin channel:
• REFLECTIONS: the image...
You can see Lawrence Hultberg’s Urban Abstract and Mandala prints on the website: www.LeifGrafix...