Looking at Pictures on a Screen: Thomas Nozkowski

Friday, April 12, 2024, 6:30 - 8pm

The Brooklyn Rail and The Cooper Union School of Art present a free screening of the documentary Looking at Pictures on a Screen: Thomas Nozkowski, which enters the homes of Nozkowski’s friends, family members, collectors, and critical champions to explore his life and work. The documentary on Nozkowski (1944-2019), an abstract painter and a 1967 alumnus of The Cooper Union, was produced and directed by Gabriel Rodriguez-Fuller, who also graduated from The Cooper Union decades later. The screening will be followed by a panel featuring artists Suzanne Joelson and Chris Martin as well as writers David Levi Strauss and Robert Storr, all of whom are featured in the film. Curator Sid Sachs moderates. Watch the trailer.

Thomas Nozkowski A’67 was an abstract painter who exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad. He chose to express personal experience through small-scale abstract canvases that refused to adhere to a “signature style” or align themselves with a particular movement. His works are included in the collections of major art institutions, such as the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. Nozkowski was the recipient of multiple grants and awards throughout his career, including a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and four awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Gabriel Rodriguez-Fuller A’17 is a filmmaker who makes short and feature-length fiction films as well as music videos and short documentaries. His most recent feature, The Gene Pool, will stream online later this spring on NoBudge.

Registration required. Please note this is first come-first-served, and an RSVP does not guarantee admission.

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