Albert Pinkham Ryder 1847-1917 The Race Track oil on canvas 33 1/4" x 40 1/8"
www.clevelandart.org
Happy New Year!
Monday, December 30, 2013
Albert Pinkham Ryder
Albert Pinkham Ryder 1847-1917 The Race Track oil on canvas 33 1/4" x 40 1/8"
www.clevelandart.org
Happy New Year!
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Marsden Hartley
Marsden Hartley 1877-1943 New Mexico Recollection 1923 oil on canvas 40" x 47 1/2"
www.clevelandart.org
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Brian Fahlstrom
Brian Fahlstrom Untitled 2010 oil on canvas 89 1/4" x 53 1/8"
www.marcfoxx.com
Went to Orange County Museum of Art the other day to see Dan Camerons latest curatorial effort. California Landscape into Abstraction: Selections from the Orange County Museum of Art which included a wonderful painting by Brian Fahlstrom. Unfortunately, I could not reproduce the painting with it's extraordinary color and paint handling. However, Marc Foxx had this image available so I am showing it. He is a young painter to keep an eye on. L.A. is producing some very interesting painters these days.
Monday, December 23, 2013
John Altoon
John Altoon 1925-1969 Ocean Park Series # 12 oil on canvas 81 5/16" x 84"
www.lacma.org
Altoon was an L.A. based artist that died early of a heart attack at the age of 43. I was influenced by his use of biomorphic forms mixed with an abstract impressionist approach to paint application. His use of a white ground with semi-narrative imagery floating on it was new and exciting for me in the early and late 60's. Along with Guston, Nutt, and a few other's he was one of my early influences.
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Clyfford Still
www.sfmoma.org
Still was arguably one of the most original members of the Ab/Ex group of painters of that era. Perhaps it was because he was from the land west of the Rockies. His work still holds viewers in awe 34 years after his passing.
Friday, December 20, 2013
James Siena
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James Siena Hercules (for Goltzfus) 2006 enamel on aluminum 29 3/4" x 23"
www.danielweinberggallery.com
www.ambachandrice.com
Charlie Kitchings of Ambach and Rice gallery in L.A. has given his gallery over to Dan Weinberg, who was the prior tenant in the space on Wilshire blvd. Weinberg is showing a group exhibition typical of his year end salon style shows of the past. There are over 40 artists that Weinberg showed in the past including Richard Artschwager, James Siena, Andrew Masullo, Mary Heilmann, Jeff Koons, Richard Tuttle, Carrol Dunham, Alfred Jenson and John Wesley among many others. In many cases he was the first gallery to show many of these artists.
Weinberg is a private dealer today and attends many art fairs. This is the first time since he left the Ambach & Rice space he has had such an exhibition in L.A.
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Sunday, December 15, 2013
James Castle
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www.fleisher-ollmangallery.com
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Volker Hueller
93.62" x 69.68"
www.grimmgallery.com
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Peter Brotzmann
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Peter Brotzmann Untitled (landscape) 2012 wooden box construction with painted paper and shaped metal 5 3/4" x 8 3/4" x 1 1/2"
www.corbettvsdempsey.com
Monday, December 9, 2013
Interesting Juxtaposition
Squeak Carnwath Memory Is a Colour 2007 oil and alkyd on canvas over panel 75" x 65"
www.squeakcarnwath.com
www.okharris.com
Saturday, December 7, 2013
William Hawkins
William Hawkins 1895-1990 Untitled-Christ handing keys to St. Peter 1989 enamel and collage on masonite 48" x 50.5"
www.fleisher-ollmangallery.com
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Charles Burchfield
Charles Burchfield An April Mood 1946-55 water color and charcoal on joined paper
40" x 54"
www.whitney.org
Why does this painting seem so contemporary when it was painted almost 68 years ago?
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Todd Chilton
Todd Chilton Mirrored Zig Zag 2012 oil on linen over panel 18" x 16"
www.featureinc.com
Chilton is a Southern California painter via SAIC where he received his MFA. His
paintings have an apparent simplicity to them that is countered by his use of OP
devices and an obsessive approach to paint application. They are quite arresting
when viewed in person.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Elizabeth Murray
www.whitney.org
Native Chicago artist who studied at SAIC, Murray became a major painter in the 70's when it was much more difficult for women to break into the contemporary painting scene. She is one of only 4 woman to have been given a retrospective at MOMA in New York. Her vibrant paintings of abstract forms that eventually developed into shaped canvas's were always a joy for me to experience.
Monday, December 2, 2013
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Friday, November 29, 2013
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Paul Doran
www.westernexhibitions.com
Doran is a Irish painter. The paintings I have seen have a wonderful Arthur Dove quality to them without the allusion to landscape or anything too tangible. Abstract, direct and thought provoking.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
David Rabinowitch
David Rabinowitch Birth of Romanticism Drawings, Untitled 2010 oil pastel, acrylic, pencil, wax medium with pigment, charcoal on litho 40" x 30"
www.peterblumgallery.com
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Rosy Keyser
Rosy Keyser Lamps of Reality 2013 enamel, wire, cardboard and aluminum on canvas 80" x 60"
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Lucy Mink
Lucy Mink Those Around You 2013 oil on linen over panel 16" x 20"
I have been following Lucy Mink on the net for some time. This particular painting is recent and a bit of a breakthrough for her in my opinion. I love the edges of this piece along with the composition and paint handling.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Jules de Balincourt
www.julesdebalincourt.com
Jules de Balincourt's paintings take narrative to a new dimension where a non-linear form of free association and free flow of consciousness reigns supreme. His work is not anarchic but rather builds on tradition while following his own unique path to artistic enlightenment.
Monday, November 18, 2013
Jonathan Apgar
Jonathan Apgar Charm For Unfruitful Land 2013 oil on canvas 72" x 60"
www.jonathanapgar.com
Apgar will be showing his new paintings at ACME Los Angeles opening this Saturday Nov. 23rd. He is a recent graduate of the MFA program at UCLA.
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Thursday, November 14, 2013
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Joanne Greenbaum
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Joanne Greenbaum untitled (Hollywood Squares #6) 2009 oil and acrylic on canvas
80" x 78"
www.dameliogallery.com
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Joyce Treiman
Joyce Treiman 1922-1991 Joker and Flower 14" x 11" pastel on paper 1990
Treiman came from the midwest to Southern California in the 40's after studying at Iowa University and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She taught for years at UCLA. Her love of the old masters and Eakins is always evident in her figure landscapes that are infused with surrealist undertones. It seems that you just can't take the Chicago influence out of an artist once they have succumbed to it's siren song.
Monday, November 11, 2013
Lesley Vance
Lesley Vance untitled 2013 oil on linen 13" x 17"
www.davidkordanskygallery.com
Can't wait to see the show at Kordansky of Lesley Vance new paintings. Small gems of nuanced color and form combining into eloquent tropes on elegant abstraction. One of the best painters on the west coast for sure.
Friday, November 8, 2013
Joan Mellon
Joan Mellon Capriccio 2012-13 oil on canvas 48" x 40"
www.joanmellon.com
Joan Mellon is a painter and printmaker from New York. Each practice influences the next as she explores color, pattern, translucency, opacity and form in her work. She is in a group exhibition titled "Meta Vista" that is closing this weekend in Brooklyn at the 16 Wilson space (formally Storefront gallery). Should you be in the area it should not be missed. The exhibition can be viewed online at curatingcontemporary.com as well.www.curatingcontemporary.com
Thursday, November 7, 2013
43 years ago
Steve Gibson 1971 Skunky Do and Skunky Lou 16" x 20" serigraph on paper
Pulling prints in a car port studio in La Jolla. Had to work only in the morning when the wind did not blow. It is amazing what conditions someone will work in to accomplish the task at hand. A belated apology to my ex-neighbors for the loud and angry bellows from my side of the fence from time to time.
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Molly Zukerman-Hartung
Molly Zukerman-Hartung Reading (Quotation) 2010-12 oil and spray paint on canvas
60" x 48"
Friday, November 1, 2013
Thursday, October 31, 2013
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.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Christina Ramberg
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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.
Friday, October 25, 2013
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
June Leaf
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.
Monday, October 21, 2013
Serge Charchoune
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.
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Lisa Sanditz
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.