During his nearly five-decade career, Joseph Glasco (1925-1996) dedicated himself to making art. From the time he was a young boy in boarding school until his death, Glasco explored a wide variety of styles and materials. From surrealism and figuration to cubism, sculpture and pure abstraction, Glasco always pursued his own path and never followed, or was influenced by, what was the fashion of the time.
During his early years in New York, Alfonso Ossorio, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner and others were friends and influences. Later in his life, Glasco befriended younger artists such as Julian Schnabel and George Condo.
While Glasco lived through the important phases of American Modern and Contemporary art, he always enjoyed the freedom to pave his own way and left his own personal mark on 20th century American art history.
He was the youngest artist to have his work collected by MOMA in 1949. He was also the youngest to be included in the exhibition ‘15 Americans’ organized by Dorothy Miller at MOMA in 1952, and he went on to have a successful art career that spanned nearly fifty years.
(Biographical text from the Joseph Glasco Foundation)