Marty Greenbaum

Marty Greenbaum grew up in Coney Island, Brooklyn.{{cite news |last1=Bourdon |first1=David |title=Marty and Lulu's Playground |publisher=The Village Voice |date=1965}} In 1952 he attended the University of Arizona with a basketball scholarship and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in 1956. He received his Master's degree in art studies in 1991 from Brooklyn College.

Greenbaum is best known for his mixed media assemblage, painting and artist books.{{cite web |last1=Frank |first1=Peter |last2=Wilson |first2=Martha |title=Artists' Books U.S.A. - Exhibitions - Independent Curators International |url=https://curatorsintl.org/exhibitions/artists-books-u.s.a |website=Independent Curators International |access-date=17 February 2021}} “At a time when most of his contemporaries were calculating how to harden their edges or revamp their styles with the window dressings of Camp, this primal mixed media whizkid from Coney Island labored like an entranced shaman, to conjure up zanily beautiful art brut paintings and weird, wax-drizzled voodoo alter assemblages that resembled nothing so much as the ritual artifacts of some lost psychedelic tribe!”{{cite journal |last1=McCormack |first1=Jeannie |title=Remembering Artist Marty Greenbaum (1934-2020) |journal=Gallery & Studio, Arts Journal |date=3 January 2021 |volume=2 |issue=Fall 2020 |url=https://www.galleryand.studio/2021/01/03/remembering-artist-marty-greenbaum-1934-2020/ |access-date=17 February 2021}}

Greenbaum appeared in three films: Hallelujah the Hills in 1963 by Adolfas Mekas,{{cite news |last1=Brody |first1=Richard |title=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/movies/hallelujah-the-hills-2}}{{cite web |last1=Mekas |first1=Adolfas |title=Hallelujah the Hills |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056053/ |website=IMDB |publisher=Vermont |access-date=17 February 2021 |date=15 September 1966}}{{cite web |title=Hallelujah the Hills |url=https://www.gartenbergmedia.com/dvd-distribution-and-sales/experimental-narratives-avant-garde-shorts/hallelujah-the-hills |website=Gartenberg Media Enterprises |access-date=17 February 2021}} Life Dances On,{{cite web |last1=Frank |first1=Robert |title=Life Dances On... |url=https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.76910.html |website=National Gallery of Art |date=4 February 1980 |access-date=17 February 2021}}{{cite web |last1=Houston |first1=Museum of Fine Arts |title=Life Dances On |url=https://www.mfah.org/films/robert-frank-collection |website=The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston}} in 1980 by Robert Frank, and The Present in 1996 by Robert Frank. Between 1962 and 1965 he took part in happenings by Allan Kaprow and experimental dance by Yvonne Rainer.{{cite book |last1=Banes |first1=Sally |title=Democracy's Body: Judson Dance Theater, 1962-1964 |date=1993 |publisher=Duke University Press |location=Durham and London |isbn=978-0-8223-1399-1 |pages=176}} Greenbaum authored his own happenings, i.e. Coney Island Carny, including artists such as Eddie Barton, Remy Charlip, Paul Kaplow, Paul Krasner, Al Hanson, Ed Blair, Allen Ginsberg, John Hamond, Eddie Rabkin, Lou Gosset, Renee Renee, Allan Kaprow, Phyllis Yampolsky, Thomas Hoving, Jackie Ferrara, Peter Schumann, Jim Bell, Bill Marshall, Corla Lopez, Bruce Waite, and Mark di Suvero,{{cite web |last1=Greenbaum |first1=Marty |title=Coney Island Carny |url=http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/fales/judson/dscaspace_ref15.html |website=The Fales Library & Special Collections |publisher=NYU |access-date=16 February 2021}} as well as organizing the Hall of Issues{{cite news |last1=Dunbab |first1=Jill |title=Looking Back at Judson Church's Twenty Year Ministry of Avant Garde Arts |url=https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83030608/1977-07-14/ed-1/seq-13/ |publisher=The villager |date=July 14, 1977 |pages=13}}{{cite web |last1=Young |first1=Allison |title=Remembering a time when New York's art scene was run by artists |url=https://www.apollo-magazine.com/artist-run-spaces-new-york/ |website=Apollo: The International Art Magazine |date=13 March 2017 |access-date=March 13, 2017}} with Phyllis Yampolsky at The Judson Memorial Church.

Greenbaum had several teaching positions in the New York City public school system and was a member of the Creative Artists Public Service program twice, he also participated in various exhibitions with book objects. [http://www.martygreenbaum.com/resume Website Marty Greenbaum ] accessed on February 20, 2016 (English) His work is in several public collections including The Art Institute of Chicago,{{cite web |title=Marty S. Greenbaum |url=https://www.artic.edu/artists/86901/marty-s-greenbaum |website=The Art Institute of Chicago |access-date=17 February 2021 |language=en}} Artists' Books, The Brooklyn Museum Collection,{{cite web |last1=Chisnell |first1=Jennifer |title=On display: New acquisitions in artists' books at Brooklyn Museum |url=https://nyarc.org/blog/new-acquisitions-in-artists-books-at-brooklyn-museum |website=New York Art Resources Consortium |access-date=June 19, 2011}} The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, Citibank, NYC, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, SUNY at New Paltz, NY and more.{{Citation needed|date=February 2021}}

"Greenbaum, an early conceptualist, burned books in the 1960s, exhibiting the remains as 'corpses.' Today, he makes fetishistic notebooks filled with colored paper and scribbled equations, accretions of feathers and Rhoplex."{{cite news |last1=Trebay |first1=Guy |title=Beyond Content - Books As Art |publisher=The Village VOICE |date=January 10, 1977}}

"Marty Greenbaum and Barton Benes destroy texts to create sculpture: Benes 'Bound Book,' a literal rope and wax imprisonment, and Greenbaum's 'Cutting Up,' a mixed media paste over of muted colors."{{cite news |last1=Brannon |first1=Anthony |title=Unique Techniques Expressed In Exhibit of Books by Artists |publisher=Buffalo Evening News |date=April 15, 1977}}

Some of his most notable artist books include: "Batman" 1963-67,{{cite web |last1=Library |first1=The Fales |title=The Fales Library: "Batman" (1963-1967) |url=http://thefaleslibrary.blogspot.com/2011/01/batman-1963-1967.html |website=The Fales Library |access-date=4 March 2021 |date=5 January 2011}} "In '84 Returned in 2004" In Marty's words, "Many techniques and strategies have been used in my mixed media books. By the time of 'In '84 Returned in 2004' I was cutting out shapes and opening up areas in the pages of a finished or an empty book. This device mirrored my sense of movement through space and time, the turning of the pages like a walk through the city, became an exploration of a multidirectional experience, ricocheting back and forth -- the going out and the coming back, the going forward and the return."{{cite web |last1=Greenbaum |first1=Marty |title=In '84 Returned in 2004 |url=https://arcade.nyarc.org/search~S2?/Xgreenbaum&searchscope=2&SORT=D/Xgreenbaum&searchscope=2&SORT=D&SUBKEY=greenbaum/1%2C15%2C15%2CB/frameset&FF=Xgreenbaum&searchscope=2&SORT=D&4%2C4%2C |website=Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives |publisher=Marty Greenbaum |access-date=4 March 2021 |date=1984}}

• 2007 Two Artists, Windsor Whip Works, Windsor NY
• 2001 Pacifico Fine Art, NYC{{cite journal |title=Diary & Pointer |journal=Art on Paper |date=2001 |volume=6 |page=79}}
• 1972, 1979, 1985 Allan Stone Gallery, NYC
• 1977 Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton NY
• 1963, 1964, 1965 Stryke Gallery, NYC; In a review of the show, David Bourdon writes: "Marty Greenbaum's work is genuinely messy, crude and seemingly generated by a kind of infantile depravity. The show has the look of a sleazy midway at Coney Island ... It comes on as pathetic, trivial, and awful, and succeeds at being thoroughly enchanting."{{cite news |last1=Bourdon |first1=David |title=Marty Greenbaum and Lulu |publisher=the village VOICE |date=January 13, 1965}}

• 2019 One Plus One Equals Three, curated by Roger Winter, Kirk Hopper Fine Art, Dallas, TX{{cite web |last1=Coalition |first1=Texas Art |title=One Plus One Equals Three |url=https://www.texasartistscoalition.org/single-post/2019/01/08/one-plus-one-equals-three |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124010711/https://www.texasartistscoalition.org/single-post/2019/01/08/one-plus-one-equals-three |url-status=usurped |archive-date=November 24, 2020 |website=www.texasartistscoalition.org|date=8 January 2019 }}
• 2017 Sorcery & Craft, Allan Stone Projects, New York, NY{{cite web |title=Sorcery and Craft |url=https://www.allanstoneprojects.com/copy-of-two-views-of-pop |website=Allanstoneprojects |access-date=18 February 2021 |language=en}}
• 2008 8 Artists 8 Books, 5 + 5 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
• 1999 1999 Talent, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY{{cite journal |last1=McCormack |first1=Ed |title="Talent 1999" at Allan Stone Gallery |journal=Gallery & Studio, Arts Journal |date=Winter 1999 |url=http://www.gubinart.com/uploads/9/7/3/4/9734277/tallent_1999_at__allan_stone_gallery.pdf |access-date=18 February 2021}}
• 1998 Artist Books, Bound & Unbound Gallery, New York, NY
• 1992 Fetishism, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
• Salon of the Book, Caroline Corre, Paris, France; Artists; Books, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
• 1979 "Book Makers: Center for Book Arts First Five Years", Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY{{cite book |last1=Schnabel |first1=Bruce |title=Book Makers: Center for Book Arts First Five Years |date=1979 |publisher=Center for Book Arts |location=The Cooper Union, New York, NY |pages=11 |url=https://centerforbookarts.org/book-shop/book-makers-center-for-book-arts-first-five-years |access-date=18 February 2021}}
• 1978 The Detective Show MoMA, PS1, Queens, NY{{cite web |title=Marty Greenbaum {{!}} MoMA |url=https://www.moma.org/artists/71376?locale=en |website=The Museum of Modern Art |access-date=18 February 2021 |language=en}}
• 1978 Artists' Books U.S.A., traveling exhibition curated by Peter Frank and Martha Wilson{{cite web |last1=Frank |first1=Peter |last2=Wilson |first2=Martha |title=Artists' Books U.S.A. |url=https://curatorsintl.org/collaborators/marty-greenbaum |website=Independent Curators International: Exhibitions}}
• 1977 Metamorphosis of the Book, documenta 6, Kassel, Germany;{{cite web |title=documenta 6 - Retrospective - documenta |url=https://www.documenta.de/en/retrospective/documenta_6# |website=www.documenta.de |access-date=4 March 2021}}{{cite book |title=Documenta 6 : Kassel 1977, 24. Juni-2. Okt. |date=1977 |publisher=P. Dierichs |location=Kassel |isbn=3-920453-00-X |page=316}} Book Objects, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
• 1976 Forty Years of American Collage, Buecker & Harpsichords, New York, NY; The Book as Art, Fendrich Gallery, Washington, D.C.; The Object as Poet, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
• 1975 Artists Make Toys, The Clocktower, New York, NY{{cite web |last1=Modern Art |first1=Museum of |title=Artists Make Toys |url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3958 |website=www.moma.org}}
• 1970 Fur & Feathers, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY; Personal Torment/ Human Concern, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
• 1968 "Destruction Art," Finch College Museum of Art, New York, NY{{cite news |last1=Picard |first1=Lil |title=The East Village Other |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.28035847 |access-date=18 February 2021 |issue=24 |date=1968 |jstor=community.28035847 }}
• 1965 "Objects, by Dorothea Baer, Jackie Ferrara, Marty Greenbaum, Lulu, Carolee Schneemann, Van Bovenkamp Gallery, New York, NY{{cite web |last1=Platzker |first1=David |title=Objects by Dorothea Baer, Jackie Ferrara, Marty Greenbaum, Lulu, Carolee Schneemann |url=https://specificobject.com/objects/info.cfm?object_id=19048#.YC7XgzGSnZs |website=Specific Object |access-date=18 February 2021 |language=en}}
• 1961 Hall of Issues, Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY{{cite web |title=Guide to the Judson Memorial Church Archive1838-1995 |url=http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/fales/judson/dscaspace_ref15.html |website=dlib.nyu.edu |access-date=18 February 2021 |ref=MSS.094}}

• 1983 The Institute for Arts & Urban Resources, NYC
• 1976 [https://www.macdowell.org/artists/marty-greenbaum MacDowell Fellowship]{{cite web |title=Marty Greenbaum - Artist |url=https://www.macdowell.org/artists/marty-greenbaum |website=MacDowell |access-date=17 February 2021 |language=en}}
• 1975 CAPS Creative Artists Public Service, New York State
• 1974 National Endowment for the Arts
• 1972 CAPS Creative Artists Public Service, New York State; Boskop Foundation, NYC
• 1968 Lannan Foundation, Chicago, IL

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