Albert Stadler

Art Brokerage: Albert Stadler American Artist: b. 1923-2000. Born in New York City, Stadler attended the University of Pennsylvania and received his BFA from the University of Florida, Gainesville, in 1950. A leading figure in the rise of color abstraction in the mid-1960s, Albert Stadler addressed the nature of optical experience in his art. In the catalogue for his first solo exhibition, held at Bennington College in 1962, he stated that he saw his canvases as invitations "for the viewer to participate in events, in the activity of color and the relativity of space." For Stadler, "space . . . and the freedom of the eye to roam" were essential. He enhanced this experience in his art through "deliberate variations." These were intended "to illuminate and elucidate all parts of a painting," while allowing viewers the opportunity to find their own way through an image. In an era when artists often intended their paintings to be seen only from a distance, Stadler gave an old master attention to the entirety of his surfaces, enabling them to be read with equal appreciation at close and far ranges. Creating both hard-edge and more ethereal paintings, Stadler united directions in Color Field and Minimalist art, often bridging the gap between the intellectual and sensual and the conceptual and spiritual. Listings wanted.