““I’m interested in making images that are both orderly and fragile. The birds, plants, and marks are less about depicting nature and more about creating a place where attention can slow down and quiet things can be felt.””
Glenn Goldberg
Manneken Press is pleased to announce the release of a trio of limited edition prints—our first project with New York–based artist Glenn Goldberg. The prints, titled Empyrean (1), Empyrean (2), and Empyrean (3), are monochromatic etchings with aquatint that employ delicate brushwork, intricate stippling, and layered tonal fields to create images that feel both graphic and quietly meditative. The title Empyrean refers to the highest heaven or celestial realm in ancient cosmologies, suggesting a space of light, elevation, and contemplation. |
The Empyrean prints feature recurring motifs of birds, floral forms, and abstracted natural elements, organized around central anchors and rendered in rich tones of black and gray. Goldberg has described his work as driven by an interest in structure, hierarchies, and moods found in nature, even though his images are invented rather than painted directly from observation. His process is slow, layered, and meticulous, emphasizing patience, attention, and a kind of “quiet intensity” in the act of creating.
Glenn Goldberg’s Empyrean prints are etchings with aquatint, hand-printed in black ink on Somerset Velvet Soft White paper in limited editions of twenty impressions. The image/plate size is 18″ x 20″ and the sheet size is 27″ x 20″. The prints are signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist. The prints are published by and were produced at Manneken Press. They are available for purchase now.
left to right: Empyrean (1), Empyrean (2), Empyrean (3), 2026. Etching and aquatints by Glenn Goldberg. Hand printed in black ink from etched copper plates on Somerset Velvet Soft White paper in editions of 20. The plate/image size is 18″ x 12″, sheet size 27” x 20. Each impression is numbered, signed and dated by the artist on the front, lower margin in pencil and rubber stamp. Published by and available from Manneken Press.
We will be featuring Glenn Goldberg’s new prints in our booth (#A13) at the IFPDA Print Fair, April 9 – 12, 2026 at the Park Avenue Armory, NYC.
About Glenn Goldberg
Glenn Goldberg (born 1953, Bronx, New York) has exhibited widely in the United States, including at galleries such as Knoedler & Co., Pace, and Luhring Augustine, and internationally at galleries in Canada, Italy and South Korea, as well as at institutions including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. His work is held in major museum collections, including:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Brooklyn Museum and Bronx Museum, among others
Goldberg has held numerous teaching appointments at institutions such as Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia University, Cooper Union, Rhode Island School of Design, Parsons, Queens College (CUNY), and the New York Studio School. He has received significant support and recognition, including grants or awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and others, and was named the Heilman Artist in 1996. In recent years he has also undertaken public art projects, including a commission for the New York MTA at the E. 149th Street subway station in the Bronx.
