John Hultberg
Hultberg is regarded as an accomplished artist as well as a poet and a writer. Born in Berkeley, California in 1922, He studied at the California State College between 1939 and 1943 and later at the California School of Fine Art. In 1943 he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Fresno College California.
Hultberg moved beyond Abstract Expressionism in his conception of space and form. In his paintings space becomes time as his horizon signifies the future, for him the infinity of space has no limitations. With his planar perspective and formal interactions on the picture surface, Hultberg reinterprets pictorial space to create a suspension of form, where time and space are infinite.
During the 1950s Hultberg showed at the Museum of Modern Art and in 1955 won first prizes at the Corcoran Biennial and the International Congress for Cultural Freedom in Rome. He received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1956 and in 1959 held exhibitions in Paris, Milan, Italy, Chicago and New York.
Hultberg died in 2005, his works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.