Kushner also edited the publication Amy Goldin: Art in a Hairshirt (Hudson Hills, 2012) to much critical acclaim. Wild Gardens, a selection of Kushner's recent paintings with an essay by Michael Duncan, was published by Pomegranate in 2006. A mid-career retrospective of his work was organized by the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art.Ī monograph on Kushner's three decades of artistic work, Gardens of Earthly Delight, was published by Hudson Hills Press in 1997. He was the subject of solo exhibitions at both the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Brooklyn Museum. Kushner's work has been exhibited extensively in the United States, Europe, and Japan and has been included in the Whitney Biennial three times and twice at the Biennale in Venice. Recently, an eighty-foot-long marble mosaic, Welcome, was installed at the new Raleigh Durham International Airport in North Carolina. He has also completed commissions at Gramercy Tavern and Maialino restaurants in New York City, Union Square in Tokyo, The Ritz Carlton Highlands in Lake Tahoe, CA, and Federal Reserve System in Washington, DC. In 2004, he installed two monumental mosaic murals, 4 Seasons Seasoned, at the 77th Street and Lexington Avenue subway station. Kushner has also created large-scale murals for public and private spaces.

In 2012, it was exhibited at the La Jolla Athenaeum in California. for the inaugural exhibition at DC Moore Gallery’s new Chelsea location in 2011.

It then traveled to the Kunsthallen Brandts in Odense, Denmark before returning to the U.S. In 2010, Scriptorium was exhibited in Desire at The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin. The pages have been removed from vintage books of all types from around the world. Kushner’s installation, Scriptorium: Devout Exercises of the Heart, was a group of over one thousand drawings of flowers and plants on book pages that date from 1500 to 1920. Most recently, Kushner’s work has been included in several national and international museum exhibitions focusing on the Pattern and Decoration movement: With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972-1985, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (2019-2020) Less is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design, Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (2019) Pattern and Decoration: Ornament as Promise, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Vienna, Austria, and Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary (2018-2019) Pattern, Decoration & Crime, MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland, and Le Consortium, Dijon, France (2018-2019). Decoration has always had its own agenda, the sincere and unabashed offering of pleasure and solace.” … The eye can wander, the mind think unencumbered through visual realms that are expansively and emotionally rich. Decoration, an abjectly pejorative dismissal for many, is a very big, somewhat defiant declaration for me. He has said, “I never get tired of pursuing new ideas in the realm of ornamentation. Kushner’s work combines organic representational elements with abstracted geometric forms in a way that is both decorative and modernist. Kushner draws from a unique range of influences, including Islamic and European textiles, Henri Matisse, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Demuth, Pierre Bonnard, Tawaraya Sotatsu, Ito Jakuchu, Qi Baishi, and Wu Changshuo.

Since participating in the early years of the Pattern and Decoration Movement in the 1970s, Robert Kushner has continued to address controversial issues involving decoration.

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