Art Green

Art Green  Turning Point  1983  oil on canvas  60" x 33"
www.corbettvsdempsey.com

One of the original Hairy Who members in Chicago in the late 60's, Green became an expat living in Nova Scotia and teaching their. His exquisitely crafted tableaus still ring out with authenticity today.

Christina Ramberg

Christina Ramberg 1946-1995 Untitled (Torso With Leaf)  1980  acrylic on masonite  15" x 11.5"
www.corbettvsdempsey.com

Ramberg received her MFA at SAIC the year I arrived to start mine. She was an integral part of the Chicago Imagist movement that had started in the late 60's with the Hairy Who group of Jim Nutt, Gladys Neilson, Jim Falconer, Art Green. Her distinct take on the female form coincided with the feminist movement that had started in the 60's. Her beautifully executed works reflected her interest in the female condition, social mores and a outsider's take on society.

Steve Gibson

Steve Gibson  untitled (Bob Steele)  2013  oil on linen  54" x 40"
www.stevegibsonart.com

Basil Beattie

Basil Beattie  The Difference Between ll  2005  oil and wax on canvas 97.44" x 96.73"

www.tate.org.uk

Judith Simonian

Judith Simonian  Extreme Ikebana  2013 acrylic on canvas 64" x 84"
edwardthorpgallery.com

Thomas Raat

Thomas Raat  The Background of Modern Poetry  2013  oil and ink on mdf  73.6" x 32.3"
www.boltelang.com

June Leaf

June Leaf b. 1029   Skull on Table  2006 acrylic on canvas  32" x 40"
www.edwardthorpgallery.com

June Leaf is a painter from Chicago. Her expressive narrative paintings have always been of interest to me. She was part of the group that included Seymour Rosofsky, Irving Petlin, Ellen Laynon and others that used curious associations of figures, landscape and interiors to convey erie and strange connections to the human experience. 

Serge Charchoune

Serge Charchoune (1888-1975)  Small Black Holes  1927  oil on canvas  12.2" x 16.5"
www.artveras.com

Born in Russia, Charchoune wanted to be a painter. He was rejected by the Academy in Moscow because he could not draw the figure from nature. Undaunted, he immigrated to western Europe to study with the contemporaries of modern art of the time. His demeanor was such that he could not adhere to the dogma of any movement. So, he became a maverick and worked in many styles that suited his penchant for Russian symbolism and abstraction. Not really a cubist, he co-opted the style to suite his idiosyncratic approach to painting. 

Lisa Sanditz

Lisa Sanditz  Pizza Farms  2013  acrylic on canvas  46" x 64" 

www.lisasanditz.com

Lisa Sanditz new paintings will be on view on the new online gallery that Torrance Art Museum is setting up. I am the first artist/curator to curate an online exhibition so it will be interesting to see the response to this new venue. Many artists that appear on this blog will be included as well. I will keep you posted as to the exact date of the opening. Most likely the first week in November. The painters in the exhibition have been so generous and accommodating. I feel very privileged to have had the opportunity to work with them.

Peter Acheson

 Peter Acheson  Seed Child  oil on wood  1983  10" x 4"
www.novellagallery.com

Acheson is a painter living in up state New York. He has been and continues to be an influential artist for the Williamsburg art community in Brooklyn. His current exhibition of paintings at Novella Gallery is documented on Anne Russinof's blog: www.gallerytravels.blogspot.com 
His work has the enviable quality of feeling, where the viewer experiences the emotions of the artists efforts with paint. His intensity is palpable.

Christopher Robner

Christopher Robner  Peng (bang)  2012 acrylic and oil on canvas  31.5" x 39"

www.romeryounggallery.com

Heather Gwen Martin

Heather Gwen Martin  Dark Light  oil on linen 2013

www.luisdejesus.com

This is the last week to see Heather Gwen Martins exhibition at Luis De Jesus in Culver City.
Martin is also to be included in the upcoming online exhibition I am curating for the Torrance Art Museum in November. More on that later.

Chris Martin

Chris Martin  Untitled  2013  acrylic, holographic glitter on canvas  64" x  59"

Chris Martin is showing new paintings at Kordansky in Culver City. The exhibition is an opportunity for many Los Angeles viewers to experience this New York artist's work for the first time. Martin has been and continues to be a seminal figure in the Brooklyn art community. He has gained an almost shaman like stature with younger painters there. 

These new works explore performative, mystical and cultural elements as Martin develops his vernacular with contemporary paintings past and it's future. Southern California artists should not miss the opportunity to experience these works by an important painter.

www.davidkordanskygallery.com

Amy Sillman

Amy Sillman  Nut  2011 oil on canvas 91" x 84"

www.sikkemajenkinsco.com

Zak Prekop

Zak Prekop  Two Grids With Red and Black  2013  oil on canvas  14" x12"

www.shanecampbellgallery.com

Shown by appointment only at the Lincoln Park space, Zak Prekop and Peter Mandradjieff new paintings. Arguably the best gallery in Chicago.

Katherine Alexander

Katherine Alexander  Late Afternoon, Dunvegan Head, Isle of Skye  1997 acrylic on wood  21" x 16"

www.eugenebinder.com

Katherine Alexander is a fine painter as well as an old friend of mine. She is in a 3 person exhibition at Eugene Binder Gallery in Marfa, Texas. The exhibition opens Saturday, October 12.

Charlene Von Heyl

Charlene Von Heyl  Pancalist  2012  acrylic on canvas  82" x 78"

www.petzel.com

By most accounts, Charlene Von Heyl's exhibition of recent paintings at Petzel in NYC is a knock out. She continues her investigation of painting's history and her take on reinventing it.

Scott Anderson

Scott Anderson  Nike  2013  oil on canvas  75" x 60"

 www.smanderson.com