About Sylvia Mangold

In her paintings, works on paper, and prints, Sylvia Plimack Mangold (American, b. 1938) makes portraits of individual trees from her outdoor Hudson River valley studio, returning to the same subjects at different times of day or during different seasons to capture the endless variation of the natural landscape. Her etchings are the product of an intensive process of drawing on copper plates, then revising, burnishing, and reworking the image, drawing attention to the inherent qualities of her medium and arriving at a final image through a long process of proofing.  Immediately recognizable yet distinctly modern, Plimack Mangold’s landscapes are cropped in such a way that space and light achieve parity as compositional elements.

Sylvia Plimack Mangold graduated from Yale University School of Art (BFA, 1961) after studying at Cooper Union, New York.  Her work has been the subject of three traveling museum surveys and her paintings are included in more than twenty permanent museum collections including Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Walker Art Center, Yale University Art Gallery and The Whitney Museum of Art.  She lives and works in Washingtonville, New York.