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A rare and visually commanding original work by American multidisciplinary artist E.J. Gold, whose creative life has encompassed painting, sculpture, …
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A rare and visually commanding original work by American multidisciplinary artist E.J. Gold, whose creative life has encompassed painting, sculpture, photography, music, writing, and performance.
In 5th Avenue Gallery, Gold transforms an ordinary architectural streetscape into a vivid world of rhythm, movement, and imagination. Executed in a highly expressive palette of turquoise, pink, yellow, green, black, and white, the composition feels spontaneous, theatrical, and alive.
Gold’s fearless use of color is especially striking. He does not simply match colors — he lets them challenge one another, answer one another, and finally come together like a jazz conversation.
Bright turquoise, hot pink, yellow, green, black, and white meet in unexpected combinations, creating tension and harmony at the same time. Colors that might compete instead begin to play together like instruments in a jazz ensemble.
In this sense, color in 5th Avenue Gallery behaves almost like a jazz duet. Each tone keeps its own personality, yet together they create rhythm, chemistry, and spontaneous energy — much like the legendary collaborations of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, where two unmistakably different voices met and created something greater together.
The colors do not simply match — they listen, answer, challenge, and support one another, like two great jazz voices improvising in perfect conversation.
Gold’s artistic life has been defined by a similar kind of creative freedom: art as a complete way of living rather than a single discipline. His portrait of legendary jazz pianist Herbie Hancock is held in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, giving his work an important institutional connection.
Artist: E.J. Gold
Title: 5th Avenue Gallery
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 24 x 36 x 1 inches
Signature: Signed by the artist
Documentation: Certificate of Authenticity included
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- Dimensions
- 24ʺW × 1ʺD × 36ʺH
- Styles
- Expressionism
- Frame Type
- Unframed
- Art Subjects
- Cityscape
- Period
- 2000 - 2009
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Acrylic Paint
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Yellow
- Condition Notes
- Excellent Excellent less
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