Sidney Guberman

Nine years after his graduation from Princeton in 1958, Sidney Guberman received a Masters degree in Architecture from The University of Pennsylvania. Two of his heros were Louis Kahn and Robert Venturi, two of the most articulate and brilliant of 20th century architects, and both professors at Penn. Though their work is an inspiration to Guberman, he left architecture less than two years after he had received his degree.

Guberman began painting at eight, had plenty of encouragement, and won a painting prize in high school. There were no studio courses in the visual arts at Princeton in 1954. By 1956, Guberman had become friends with Frank Stella, and it was Stella who introduced him to Steve Greene who came down from New York twice a week to teach Princeton's first studio painting courses.

Since 1969, Guberman has been making painting and sculpture - he has had over 60 one-person exhibitions in the US and Europe. He has taught painting, drawing, basic design and color theory in Switzerland and in the US, including stints as visiting professor at Princeton and The University of South Carolina.

In writing the only biography of Frank Stella, Guberman became an authority on the artist's work and life, and continues to make the case for the significance of Stella's accomplishments.

Guberman's work - painting and sculpture - is abstraction and is included in many distinguished personal and public collections, including those of The High Museum in Atlanta, The Hunter Museum in Chattanooga, and The Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston. He is currently creating a series of very large paintings, one of which he has promised to The Gibbes Museum of Art.

Guberman has received a NEA Individual Artist's Grant and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and has curated 26 exhibitions including 17 for a banking organization, First Federal Savings and Loan in Bethesda, MD. Guberman is presently considering an exhibition of Louis Kahn's Exeter Library.

Sidney Guberman lives in Atlanta with his wife, Rebecca, a Director of Development (large gifts) for The High Museum.