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"The painter Carl Ostendarp is a master of comic minimalism, an oxymoronic genre. Minimalism is usually immune to humor, which is just what makes it worth teasing."

-Ken Johnson, The New York Times, 2008

Featured works

Untitled, 1992,

Urethane foam on linen,

40 x 55 inches

Foo, 1992
Flashe on linen
17 1/8 x 21 inches
43.2 x 53.3 cm

Landscape [Raspberry Question Mark], 1992
Acrylic on Linen
51 x 77 inches
129.5 x 195.6 cm

Dead on it, 1997
Signed, dated and titled in black on verso
Casein on linen
68.6 x 99.1 cm
27 x 39 inches

Blue Pretzel, 2001
Acrylic on linen
88.3 x 130.2 cm
34.75 x 51.25 inches

Myself, 2004
Acrylic on linen
203.2 x 208.3 cm
80 x 82 inches

Untitled (Miro Painting), 2004,

Acrylic on canvas,

51 1/4 x 77 inches

New Drip #1, 2006,

Acrylic on canvas,

12 x 80 inches

John Patton, 2014,

Acrylic on canvas,

59 1/2 x 88 3/4 inches

Jimmy McGriff, 2014
Acrylic on canvas
45 5/8 x 93 5/8 inches
115.9 x 237.8 cm

Groove Holmes, 2014
Acrylic on Canvas
58 1/2 x 70 inches
148.6 x 177.8 cm

Biography

Ostendarp has had over 33 solo exhibitions and participated in over 170 group shows internationally. According to Howard Halle, “Ostendarp was part of a wave of Yale trained painters during the early-to-mid-’90s, who took a dyspeptic approach to reviving various art-historical genres.”

The artist is a founding member of the Elizabeth Dee Gallery. Recent exhibitions include: Blanks at Elizabeth Dee, New York; Everything Falls Faster than an Anvil at Pace Gallery, London; and Pop Abstractions at Garth Greenan Gallery. He has been a professor, teaching at several schools, including The Cooper Union, prior to his 17 years at Cornell. Ostendarp received his B.F.A. from Boston University and his M.F.A. from Yale University. He currently directs the Graduate Program of Art at Cornell University.

Carl Ostendarp Biography