Sanford Wurmfeld
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Sanford Wurmfeld (born December 6, 1942){{Cite web |title=Sanford Wurmfeld |url=https://www.minusspace.com/sanford-wurmfeld |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=MINUS SPACE |language=en-US}} is an American abstract painter. His large-scale works investigate the impact of color on mood and perception using shifts of hue and tone across grids.{{Cite web |title=Sanford Wurmfeld: Color Visions 1966 - 2013 |url=https://www.hunter.cuny.edu/communications/news/top-featured-stories/sanford-wurmfeld-color-visions-1966-2013 |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=Hunter College}}{{Cite web |last=Yau |first=John |date=2024-03-14 |title=Sanford Wurmfeld Investigates How We Perceive Color |url=http://hyperallergic.com/877838/sanford-wurmfeld-investigates-how-we-perceive-color/ |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=Hyperallergic |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Gilbert-Rolfe |first=Jeremy |date=1975-01-01 |title=Sanford Wurmfeld |url=https://www.artforum.com/events/sanford-wurmfeld-232507/ |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=Artforum |language=en-US}}
Early life and career
Wurmfeld was born in the Bronx, New York. He was the Hunter College Art Department Chair from 1978 to 2006, and holds the title of Phyllis and Joseph Caroff Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus. He received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1974.{{Cite web |title=Sanford Wurmfeld |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/sanford-wurmfeld/ |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation... |language=en}}
Exhibitions and collections
Wurmfeld began exhibiting in the mid-1960s. His paintings have been shown in a range of solo and group shows, including at the Museum of Modern Art, the Neuburger Museum of Art, Art Basel, Minus Space, and Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum.{{Cite web |title=Sanford Wurmfeld |url=https://www.artbasel.com/catalog/artist/8194/Sanford-Wurmfeld |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=Art Basel |language=en}} Museums that hold his works in their permanent collections include the Metropolitan Museum of Art{{Cite web |title=Sanford Wurmfeld {{!}} II - 29 (N) No. 1 |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/482424 |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art |language=en}} and the Brooklyn Museum.{{Cite web |title=Untitled |url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/106899 |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=Brooklyn Museum}}
Influences and impact
Wurmfeld's influences include Georges Seurat, Josef Albers, Claude Monet, and Mark Rothko.{{Cite web |last=Yau |first=John |date=2019-04-07 |title=Paintings About Change, Not Perfection |url=http://hyperallergic.com/493524/sanford-wurmfeld-variations-minus-space/ |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=Hyperallergic |language=en-US}} His work is associated with hard-edge painting and color field painting.{{Cite web |last=Morgan |first=Robert C. |date=2019-04-03 |title=Sanford Wurmfeld: Variations |url=https://brooklynrail.org/2019/04/artseen/Sanford-Wurmfeld-Variations |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=The Brooklyn Rail |language=en-US}} He is considered a founding member of the Hunter Color School with Gabriele Evertz.{{Cite web |last=Micchelli |first=Thomas |date=2018-04-07 |title=The Dazzling Sweep of the Hunter Color School |url=http://hyperallergic.com/436476/radiant-energy-visual-arts-center-of-new-jersey-2018/ |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=Hyperallergic |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Yau |first=John |date=2017-08-12 |title=Slippery Geometry and Beguiling Color |url=http://hyperallergic.com/395355/gabrielle-evertz-sanford-wurmfeld-polychromy-minus-space-2017/ |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=Hyperallergic |language=en-US}}