Heather Brown

Heather Brown  Ruin No. 2  oil on canvas  2012  12" x12"  
www.carterandcitizen.com

Molly Larkey

Molly Larky  Mask (confused)  2011 acrylic and ceramic on linen    24" x18"

www.weekendspace.org

Joanne Greenbaum

Joanne Greenbaum  untitled (Hollywood Squares #6)  2009  oil and acrylic on canvas 
 80" x 78"
www.dameliogallery.com

Joyce Treiman

Joyce Treiman  1922-1991 Joker and Flower  14" x 11" pastel on paper  1990

www.georgeadamsgallery.com

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.

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.

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

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.

Robin Bruch

 Robin Bruch  untitled  2012  acrylic on canvas  36" x 36"  
www.lesliefritzgallery.com

Molly Zukerman-Hartung

Molly Zukerman-Hartung  Reading (Quotation)  2010-12  oil and spray paint on canvas

 60" x 48"

www.corbettvsdempsey.com

Steve Gibson

Steve Gibson  Untitled (Arabian Mystique)  2013  oil on linen  54" x 40"  
www.stevegibsonart.com

Margot Bergman

Margot Bergman b. 1934   Peony  2008  acrylic on canvasboard  16" x 12"
www.corbettvsdempsey.com

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.