Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, is presenting an exhibition of paintings by Isaac Abrams, titled ‘History of My Dreams’, on view through August 1, 2017.In the early 1960s, Isaac Abrams was part of New York’s artistic beat milieu that included Jerry Jofen the owner of K Gallery, Herbert Hucke, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg. Abrams’s profound experience with LSD had released his own creativity and empowered him to recognize his identity as an artist. Although not formally trained as an artist, Abrams began producing pen and ink drawings in 1963, and subsequently created his first successful painting in 1965. With a new outpouring of imagination, Abrams began painting impassioned, surreal imagery. His dreamlike paintings are an amalgam of the cosmological and microscopic, resulting in a synthesis of the inner mind and the universe. His work reflects a dialog between art, culture, and the tumultuous social phenomena of the time.Isaac Abrams was born in New York City In 1939, where he lived for many years. Abrams currently lives and works in Saugerties, New York. His first major painting Hello Dali (1965) was included in the recent Berkeley Art Museum and Walker Art Center exhibition Hippie Modernism: the Struggle for Utopia.The exhibition will be on view at Robert Koch Gallery, 49 Geary St, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA.

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