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I want to turn thought into something tangible – an object – and then back to a thought.

Jack Goldstein
Interview with Morgan Fisher, 2002

Meliksetian | Briggs is pleased to present Jack Goldstein: Selectric Works. The one hundred works on paper featured in the exhibition will be shown for the first time.

A graduate assistant for John Baldessari’s first class in his Post-Studio Art program at Cal Arts in the 1970s, Goldstein (1945-2003) became best known as a key figure of the Pictures Generation, a group of artists who came to prominence in the late 1970s and early 1980s, their practice …