Excerpts from Reviews

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"Architectural, geometric and formally composed, the paintings are cerebral and contemplative, appealing primarily to the mind rather than the heart."

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"The basic premise reflects a study in the balance of forms beside and against each other and of the balance of colors within those forms."

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"Clothespins become buildings, buildings grow faces, bicycles rear up like insects - such flights of fancy are readily inspired by Gelbart's solid, brilliantly colored wood, plastic and metal assemblies....."

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"The structural shape is long and narrow, like a skyscraper. The colors are strong and primary.  Sometimes the houses sit in a row on a clothesline: sometimes they are tall birdhouses....."

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"The Burden Figure - shrouded, hooded forms like introverted, tormented human beings who had closed in on themselves, physically and emotionally, despite their usual clustering in groups....."

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"One has the feeling, in looking at these sculptures, that the artist has 'unburdened' himself of the darker side of human existence and now laughs at it, sharing with us a complex joke on mankind.  Here, also is an emphasis on American influences, rather than the European ones of his earlier work....."

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