George Ortman’s painted constructions of the 1950s and early 1960s are pioneering works. Their reductive geometry and modular color were widely seen as being at the forefront of young artists move away from abstract expressionism.
Cordy Ryman, Eli Ridgway Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The work of Cordy Ryman takes to task the investigation of geometries free from rigorous ordering. His abstract reliefs - elevating commonplace materials such as wood, spray paint, glue, Velcro and staples - exist in the conceptual interstice of painting and sculpture.
Karl Benjamin and the Evolution of Abstraction: 1950-1980, Louis Stern Fine Art, West Hollywood, CA
Karl Benjamin did not set out to become one of the founding fathers of Hard Edge painting. His plan was to write. However, in 1950 while attempting to offer art instruction, along with reading and writing, to his classroom of sixth graders, Karl Benjamin discovered painting, switched his allegiance to the visual arts and the rest is history.
California Design, 1930-1965: “Living in a Modern Way,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
Julius Shulman (1910–2009), photographer, Pierre Koenig, architect, Stahl House (Case Study House #22), Los Angeles, 1960 © J. Paul Getty Trust. October 1, 2011 – June 3, 2012 This exhibition is the first major study of California midcentury modern design. With more than 300 objects—furniture, ceramics, metalwork, fashion and textiles, and industrial and graphic design—the exhibition examines the state’s role in shaping the material culture of the entire country. Organized into four thematic areas, the [...]
Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface, MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA, MCASD Downtown, San Diego, CA
In the 1960s and 70s, light became a primary medium for a loosely-affiliated group of artists working in Los Angeles. Whether by directing the flow of natural light, embedding artificial light within objects or architecture, or by playing with light through the use of transparent, translucent or reflective materials, these artists each made perception itself the subject of their work.
New Out West – Peter Alexander, Mary Corse, Robert Irwin, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Installation view September 23 – November 12, 2011 Quint Contemporary Art presents an exhibition of the work of Peter Alexander, Mary Corse, and Robert Irwin.
Robert Irwin: Way Out West, L&M Arts, Venice, CA
Installation view. September 17 – October 22, 2011 L&M Arts, Los Angeles is honored to present Way Out West, an exhibition of new fluorescent light tube sculptures by California based artist Robert Irwin. This will be the artist’s first commercial gallery show of new work in Los Angeles in over 40 years. In this exhibition, Robert Irwin, a pioneering artist of the “Light and Space” movement, continues his ongoing interest in the perceptual qualities of [...]
Ken Weathersby: Time is the Diamond, Some Walls, Oakland, CA
Ken Weathersby, Time is a Diamond (detail), 2011 August 7 – September 25, 2011 Some Walls is pleased to present Time is the Diamond, an installation of very small works by Ken Weathersby, August 7, 2011– September 25, 2011. Ken Weathersby is known for art works he describes as “meticulous, perceptually active paintings using tight geometric patterns” interrupted “with physical insertions, reversals, dissections or displacements. The painted patterns generate moiré effects, phantom color and elusive [...]
Nancy White: A Selection of Recent Work, Jancar Jones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Nancy White, #10 – Green Yellow, 2011 August 6-20, 2011 Jancar Jones Gallery recently moved to Los Angeles, CA from San Francisco, CA. The gallery is currently located at 506 Bernard Street in Chinatown, Los Angeles. From August 6-20, they will present a selection of recent works by Nancy White at their new location. The exhibition is by appointment only.
Eve Aschheim: Drawings & Photograms, Some Walls, Oakland, CA
Eve Aschheim, Deluxe 3x, 2010 Gesso, graphite, and ink on mylar 17 x 12 inches June 11 – July 31, 2011 Some Walls is pleased to present “Drawings & Photograms” by New York artist Eve Aschheim June 11, 2011– July 31, 2011. Eve Aschheim’s approaches to image-making—drawings, photograms, and paintings—concern line and light, interior and exterior space, rhythm and pattern, and gesture and a sense of play conveyed using each medium’s unique processes and material. [...]
Jered Sprecher, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
Work by Jered Sprecher. July 15 – August 31, 2011 Jered Sprecher is at the forefront of a new generation of abstract painters who are revitalizing the practice. In his new series, Shadows of Friction, he draws from sources that are changing and evolving. His work shows images that are revealed as fragments in the midst of change, destruction, redefinition and restoration. He earned his MFA at the University of Iowa in 2002, and he [...]
Abstraction Group Show, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Keira Kotler, March 29 through May 27, 2011 Urethane and varnish on acrylic 18 x 18 inches June 25 – July 30, 2011 Group show featuring work by Peter Alexander, Miya Ando, Richard Bruland, and Keira Kotler.
Behind What It’s in Front Of, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
John McLaughlin, #15, 1961 Oil on canvas 60 x 42 inches May 21 – July 16, 2011 Works by John McLaughlin and Roy McMakin on view at Quint Contemporary Art in La Jolla, California.
Erik Saxon: Select Works, 1973-2011
May 7 - June 11, 2011
MINUS SPACE is delighted to announce the exhibition Erik Saxon: Select Works, 1973-2011. This is the Manhattan-based painter’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition will feature key works from seminal points in the artist’s oeuvre spanning the past forty years, including several never-before-seen grid, shaped, multi-panel, and monochrome paintings.
Cries & Whispers, Sam Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Douglas Melini, Splendor of the Sun and the Moon, 2008 Acrylic on canvas and wood 24 x 20 inches April 23 – June 4, 2011 Sam Lee Gallery and co-curator Paul W. Evans are pleased to present Cries & Whispers, a group exhibition of 15 diverse artists whose practice centers on abstraction. Included in the exhibition are Jakob Christmas, William Conger, Jeff Gambill, Glenn Goldberg, Joanne Greenbaum, Hadley Holliday, Andy Kolar, Andrew Masullo, Douglas Melini, [...]
Jennifer Faist: Reflection, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Jennifer Faist, Carousel, 2010 Resin, oil, alkyd, and acrylic on wood 17 x 52 x 1.5 inches April 23 – June 4, 2011 Jennifer Faist engages in a rigorous material process where color sets an emotional timbre and pattern anchors the conceptual and compositional core of the work. Faist begins her process on stacked plywood boards which are sanded, gessoed and then painted on with thick layers of paint. The patterns created in the first [...]
Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Richard Serra, out-of-round X, 1999 Paintstick on handmade Hiromi paper 79 ½ x 79 inches Private Collection April 13 – August 28, 2011 Organized by the Menil Collection, the first retrospective of the drawings of American contemporary artist Richard Serra will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 13, 2011, through August 28, 2011. Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective traces the crucial role that drawing has played in Richard Serra’s work [...]
Nancy White, Jancar Jones Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Nancy White, #8 (Emerald Green), 2011 Acrylic on paper mounted board 7 x 8.5 inches March 23 – April 23, 2011 Jancar Jones Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibit of new work by Bay Area artist Nancy White. The show will include a number of acrylic paintings on paper mounted board. This will be her second solo exhibit with the gallery. In her new body of work White continues to explore the perceptual relationship [...]
Tony Delap and Ruth Pastine, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Tony Delap, Extra Cross March 12 – April 9, 2011 Exhibition of works by Tony Delap and Ruth Pastine at Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, California.
Kris Chatterson: New Paintings, Western Project, Los Angeles, CA
Kris Chatterson, Blue Copper, 2011 60 x 66 inches February 19 – March 26, 2011 Western Project is proud to present the second solo exhibition of paintings by Kris Chatterson. Living and working in New York, the artist has created a body of work using printing, painting, digital imaging and iPhone drawings. Clipping and selecting gestures from previous prints, drawings and paintings, Chatterson excavates his past; a kind of digital surgery and recombination process. He [...]
Julian Hoeber, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, California
Julian Hoeber, Execution Changes 21 (NS Q1 CJ LC), 2011 Acrylic on panel 50 x 36 inches February 5 – March 10, 2011 Blum & Poe is very pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Julian Hoeber. This is Hoeber’s fourth solo-presentation with Blum & Poe. Hoeber will be debuting The Execution Changes, a suite of new abstract paintings, alongside Endless Chair, a modular and infinitely expandable seating unit, and [...]
Ruth Pastine: Transcendent Boundaries, Cabana Home (in association with Edward Cella Art + Architecture), Santa Barbara, CA
Ruth Pastine, Sighted (Blue Series), 1996 Oil on canvas 24 x 24 inches February 10 – March 26, 2011 Cabana Home, in collaboration with Edward Cella Art + Architecture, presents a solo exhibition of color field paintings by Ojai based artist Ruth Pastine. Entitled, Transcendent Boundaries, the exhibition presents a selection of work spanning 1997-2008, revealing the subtleties, intensity, and resonance of the artist’s comprehensive perceptual investigations over the last decade. Inspired by distinct and [...]
Al Taylor: Wire Instruments and Pet Stains, Santa Monica Musuem of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Al Taylor, Station of the Cross, 1990 Formica laminate and wire 42 x 25 x 23 inches January 21 – April 16, 2011 Al Taylor: Wire Instruments and Pet Stains is the first American survey of work by this important and prolific artist. The exhibition features two major series in Taylor’s vast oeuvre: Wire Instruments (1989-1990) and Pet Stains (1989-1992). These distinctive bodies of work will illustrate the importance of Taylor’s process and creative breadth. [...]
All of This and Nothing, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Frances Stark, Push, 2006 Latex, printed matter, linen tape, stickers on panel. 80 x 89 inches January 30 – April 24, 2011 All of this and nothing is the sixth in the Hammer Museum’s biennial invitational exhibition series, which highlights work of Los Angeles-based artists, both established and emerging, alongside a number of international artists. All of this and nothing features more than 60 works, much of it created for the exhibition, by fourteen artists: [...]
Olivier Mosset, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Installation view. January 15 – March 5, 2011 The Christopher Grimes Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by Olivier Mosset, featuring motorcycles painted and customized by Vincent Szarek and Jeffrey Schad. For the past 40 years, Mosset has challenged the historical notion of painting as an art object beginning with his involvement in B.M.P.T. (a Paris-based group of painters active during the mid-1960s consisting of Daniel Buren, Mosset, Michel Parmentier, and Niele [...]
R. H. Quaytman: New Work, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
R. H. Quaytman I Love-The Eyelid Clicks/ I See/ Cold Poetry, Chapter 18, 2010 Silkscreen inks on gessoed panel October 22, 2010 – January 16, 2011 In thought-provoking paintings, all made on small wood panels, R. H. Quaytman employs a variety of techniques and artistic vocabularies to explore the complex history of painting. The artist considers each new body of work as a new “chapter” in an ongoing investigation of the interrelationship of site, history, [...]
Joseph Hughes: Works on Paper – Four Decades – 1970s – 2000s, Some Walls, Oakland, CA
Joseph Hughes, 1987-D III (DK BLUE-VIOLET), 1987 Acrylic on paper 14 x 15 inches December 5, 2010 – January 16, 2011 During his five decade painting career Hughes, whose work has often been seen in the context of Radical Color Painting, has consistently produced works on paper in pursuit of a profoundly visual, emotional, and intelligent experience of color, light, and space. Spanning four decades, this exhibition, Joseph Hughes: Works on Paper – Four Decades [...]
Michael Heizer: Works from the 1960′s and 70′s, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY
Installation view October 30 – December 21, 2010 David Zwirner is pleased to present a selection of works from the 1960s and 70s by American artist Michael Heizer (b. 1944) at the gallery’s 519 West 19th Street space. As a pioneer of the 1960s Land Art movement, Heizer has created a prolific and ambitious practice encompassing painting, sculpture, and large-scale earthworks. His paintings and sculptures, which he has produced intermittently throughout his career—manifest many of [...]
Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1943-1977, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Blinky Palermo, Untitled (Totem), 1964 Casein paint on canvas on wood 86 1/4 x 10 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches Collection Dia Art Foundation October 31, 2010 – January 16, 2011 While Blinky Palermo’s reputation as one of the foremost post-war abstract painters is well established in Europe, his work is rarely seen in North America. Beginning its yearlong tour at LACMA, this is the first comprehensive retrospective of the work of this German artist [...]
Ruth Pastine: Present Fugitive, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
Work by Ruth Pastine November 6 – December 31, 2010 Gallery Sonja Roesch is pleased to announce the exhibition Present Fugitive, featuring new work by California-based artist Ruth Pastine. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Ruth Pastine’s nearly monochrome color field paintings invest in the perceptual experience of color, light, and temperature. Suspending preconceived notions about visual experience, she investigates the mercurial shift of warm and cool color identities. The complementary [...]
Lewis Baltz and Donald Judd, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Installation view September 4 – November 7, 2010 Next to Bernd and Hilla Becher, Stephen Shore and Henry Wessel, Lewis Baltz is one of the most prominent representatives of the New Topographics movement, which was seminal to the development of conceptual photography. Baltz, as well as Donald Judd, were among the artists whose works were shown in the 1970s at the New York gallery of Leo Castelli. The current exhibition at Galerie Thomas Zander now [...]
James Turrell, Gagosian Gallery, London, United Kindom
James Turrell, Sustaining Light, 2007 Wood, computerized neon setting, glass piece Aperture: 62 1/4 x 46 1/2 inches (158.1 x 118.1 cm) October 13 – December 10, 2010 Through light, space can be formed without physical material like concrete or steel. We can actually stop the penetration of vision with where light is and where it isn’t. Like the atmosphere, we can’t see through it to the stars that are there during the day. But [...]
Marietta Hoferer: Drawings, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Marietta Hoferer, Big C-9, 2010 Tape on paper September 7 – October 16, 2010 German-born, New York-based Marietta Hoferer will present a selection from four recent bodies of works on paper for her first solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery. Hoferer makes drawings that create luminous and beguiling optical effects through the refraction of light on their surfaces. Although the drawings begin with a preconceived structure of precise grids, the artist deliberately invites the interaction of [...]
William Lamson: A Line Describing the Sun, Pierogi Boiler, Brooklyn, NY
Will Lamson, A Line Describing the Sun (video still), 2010 September 10 – October 10, 2010 A Line Describing the Sun features a new two-channel video and sculpture created in the Mojave Desert earlier this year. Begun at the Center for Land Use Interpretation’s artist-in-residence program in Wendover, Utah, Lamson finished the project in a dry lakebed west of Barstow, California. The video and sculpture are both a record of two day-long performances in which [...]
Craig Kauffman: Late Work, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
Craig Kauffman, Untitled, 2009 Acrylic lacquer and glitter on drape-formed acrylic plastic 36 x 40 x 8 inches September 10 – October 9, 2010 Craig Kauffman rose to prominence in the 1960’s through his association with the legendary Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles and later in New York at The Pace Gallery. He was an early innovator and pioneer in the use of plastics and the first to employ vacuum form technology to create sculpture. [...]
In Memoriam: Leroy Lamis
Leroy Lamis, 84, died Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010, in Austin, Texas. Mr. Lamis was a sculptor and long-time professor of art at Indiana State University. His Plexiglas sculptures, known for their geometric elegance, were exhibited throughout the United States and Europe and are in the collections of leading museums and private collectors. Mr. Lamis was born in Eddyville, Iowa, and moved to Los Angeles during the depression. As a teenager, he worked at MGM studios [...]
Douglas Witmer: Fruitville, Some Walls, Oakland, CA
Douglas Witmer, Fruitville Mixed media on found wood Less than 8 inches in any direction June 20 – July 25, 2010 Some Walls is pleased to present Philadelphia-based artist Douglas Witmer’s exhibition Fruitville. Douglas Witmer is well known for his paintings which intuitively combine simple geometric imagery, emphatic color, and subtle manipulation of surface physicality. In addition to this widely-shown and growing body of work, for the past several years Witmer has worked on a [...]
Michael Dopp: Dilate, Kinkead Contemporary, Culver City, CA
Michael Dopp, Untitled (Kite 2), 2010 Acrylic on canvas, 64 x 48 inches May 8 – June 5, 2010 Michael Dopp’s paintings are both dense and bare, open and closed, expanding and contracting. The work arrives out of successive stages that simultaneously complete and frustrate each other. Such stages are evident in the array of marks – networks of lines creating patterns, which suggest both spatial qualities and underscore the flatness of the canvas’ surface. [...]
