MYRON POLENBERG (American, 1940)

Myron Polenberg is a studio artist, creating a wide range of abstract paintings and sculpture.  His paintings are relevant to the abstract expressionists and his sculptures are assemblages that illustrate formalist issues explored by Picasso and the Constructivists.  His paintings are rarely created using traditional artists' tools such as brushes or palette knives, but rather are created using compound taping knives, masons' & plasterers' trowels and 2"x4"s. The artist uses these tools to push the paint across the canvas and apply layer upon layer to the surface.

His sculptures are assemblages fabricated from found, worn and used craftsmen's tools.  Hide scrapers, hammerheads, tree bark scrapers, cattle prods and remnants from construction sites are placed singularly or grouped and welded to form abstract sculptures.

Myron Polenberg has spent a lifetime pursuing art and in 1998 began devoting all his time to abstract painting and sculpture.

In June 2004, December 2004 and February 2005 his work was chosen for the juried exhibitions entitled Naked, Twelve and Abstract Art at the Columbia County Council on the Arts, Hudson, NY.  In July 2005 his paintings are being shown in a solo exhibition at Hudson Opera House, Center Hall Gallery Hudson, NY.

Polenberg began his working career as a commercial artist specializing in graphic communication.  As Creative Director at several advertising agencies, his accounts included Gillette, J.C.Penney, Proctor & Gamble, Smirnoff Vodka and Orlane Cosmetics.  As Senior Creative Director at Columbia Records (CBS) he created promotional material for such great artists as Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson, and Chicago.  One of his major achievements at Columbia Records (CBS) was the creation of The Platinum Awards.

As President of his own design firm he designed the entire Swiss Army Watch line along with all the packaging, sell sheets, logos, catalogs and the entire national advertising campaign.

Myron Polenberg has won awards from The Art Directors Club, New York, The Kelly Awards and The Ad Council for a Public Service Campaign.

He currently sits on the Advisory Board of Directors of the World Studio Foundation, which gives financial and mentoring aid to young emerging artists in need.

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