Born: 1937 (North Tonawanda, New York)

Robert Mangold studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, Ohio from 1956- 1960. In 1959 he completed a Yale University Summer Art Fellowship in New Haven Connecticut. Mr. Mangold continued his studies at Yale Universitie’s School of Art and Architecture. He received his Bachelor of fine Arts from Yale in 1961. In 1963, Robert Mangold received his Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale.

"Abstraction is an idea, geometry is not” says Robert Mangold. Mangold has never regarded geometry as anything more than a means to an end and refuses to give his work the material presence of a formal historical or political theme. The purposeful absence of contextual information is a trait he shares with Thomas Nozkowski.

After one has observed that Mangold’s work is related to the Minimalism movement of the 1960’s and admired the formalism of elements and reflected on the impeccable craftsmanship, the viewer has only the image itself to focus on.

If the viewer will allow himself and the work of art to get acquainted he may become aware that his thoughts dwell on the aesthetic experience presented by the object before him, its simplicity, its purity and ultimately its spirituality.

	About the Artist: Robert Mangold Through March, 2003