Press Release
"Museum Acquires Work"

The renowned Folkwang Museum in Essen, Germany recently announced their purchase of Projected Street Scene, a 1971 painting by Howard Kanovitz, a longtime resident of Amagansett, now living in Southampton. The painting is one of three Kanovitz works first exhibited in "Documenta 5" in Kassel, Germany in 1972, in which Kanovitz, Chuck Close, Malcolm Morley, and Richard Estes introduced a radically new realist/conceptualist approach to representation.

 Projected Street Scene

Within this group Kanovitz offers the most poetic vision, probing the complexities of perception formed by the interweaving of vision, imagination, desire and memory. Art historian Sam Hunter accurately described Kanovitz's imagery as revealing the, "mercurial reversibility which subverts the scenario of our familiar world. Instead of facts, we find equations of ambiguity." Kanovitz continues to pursue these epistemological investigations, now further enhanced by computer imaging, which Kanovitz uses as part of his practice.

Howard Kanovitz's work is in museum collections both here and abroad. Among them are, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Los Angeles County Art Museum, The Tate Gallery, London, and the Ludwig Museum, Cologne. A selection of his "Night Sightings" is currently on view at Clark Fine Art, 51 Job's Lane, Southampton, through September 25, or at howardkanovitz.com.