Senior & Shopmaker is pleased to present Bruce Conner & Ed Ruscha: Smoke and Mirrors, an exhibition of graphic works by two towering figures who have occupied the stage in California’s art world and beyond for over fifty years. Immersed in the cultural scenes of the Bay Area and Los Angeles respectively, Conner and Ruscha early on worked across multiple mediums, including film, photography, painting, assemblage, and graphic arts, capturing the ethos of American post-war society. In so doing, they helped define a West Coast aesthetic in visual art. The exhibition includes iconic Conner pieces such as BOMBHEAD and PUFF, which relate to his groundbreaking 1976 film CROSSROADS, as well as prints by Ruscha spanning the last forty-five years.
Read MoreFor more than four decades, Lita Albuquerque has been on a diversified yet aesthetically and conceptually cohesive mission, making installations, ephemeral environments, performances involving the artist alone or hundreds of participants, large-scale public commissions, paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Born in Santa Monica, she was raised in Tunisia and Paris before returning to California.
Read MoreIn what feels like an inevitable, predestined union, small, quiet works by Giorgio Morandi and Robert Ryman come together in a vast white room. And yet they are not swallowed. Careful studies, these works dramatize and depict the melodrama that small details within a much larger whole can command.
Read MorePainter Robert Ryman was born in Nashville in 1930. Giorgio Morandi, also a painter, was born in 1890 in Bologna, Italy (he died there in 1964). Ryman paints abstractly, Morandi representationally, but the two share an attraction to a muted palette.
Read MoreOn Wednesday, October 28, 2015, LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) will host All Souls Eve: an immersive, macabre evening of dinner, cocktails, dancing, and live performances, capped off by silent and live auctions presented exclusively by Artsy. Artist Sue de Beer will be creating portraits on site, and honorees include Chef Craig Thornton aka Wolvesmouth. The gala will take place at the historic Ebell of Los Angeles.
Read MoreOri Gersht was born in Israel in 1967 and lived there until 1988. He then moved to London, where he studied and began practicing photography. His own story and that of his extended family, who originate from Poland and what is now the Ukraine, are woven through with the serial violence and ethnic conflict of the Second World War, the Holocaust, and the fraught history of the state of Israel, which continues to this day.
Read MoreFor more than four decades, Lita Albuquerque has been on a diversified yet aesthetically and conceptually cohesive mission, making installations, ephemeral environments, performances involving the artist alone or hundreds of participants, large-scale public commissions, paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Born in Santa Monica, she was raised in Tunisia and Paris before returning to California.
Read MoreInspired curatorial efforts are rare these days, so even the idea of pairing still lifes by Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964) with nearly monochrome abstractions by Robert Ryman (b. 1930) excites the imagination.
Read MoreGovert Flinck enjoyed during his lifetime a higher reputation as Rembrandt himself - so far can his work be read as an exemplary example in terms of change of aesthetic evaluation criteria. Due to its cross-linking in the leading social circles Flinck received extensive portrait commissions, in whose realization he smoothly fathomed the limits of this kind, without however exceeding ever - like his teacher Rembrandt.
Read MoreLos Angeles’ Kohn Gallery has picked up Israeli-born, London-based artist Ori Gersht.
Mr. Gersht has become well-known over the past decade for his historically influenced photography and video works that reference the style of Old Master paintings while exploring contemporary issues of violence and trauma. Often his works reflect world events such as World War II or the conflicts in the Middle East.
Read MoreThe magic of the LA art scene over the last four decades: portraits of artists in their studios by photographer Jim McHugh and a selection of original artworks by these artists. The exhibition is curated by Edward Goldman, Host of KCRW’s “Art Talk.”
Read MoreRosa Loy and Neo Rauch appear to move in a not dissimilar cosmos of imagery and painterly intentions. The difficulty of a coherent interpretation is characteristic of both artistic work. The joining of various content, oddly realistic elements on the part of a fragmented at the same time, but also narratively structured by image inventory is perhaps paradoxically designate as highly calculated Surrealism.
Read MoreThe Riverside Art Museum welcomes the return of the annual pop surrealist exhibition organized by Bob Self of Baby Tattoo Books, an alternative, underground publishing company based out of Los Angeles.
Read MoreGiorgio Morandi and Robert Ryman, "Object/Space" at Kohn Gallery. In an age of shiny objects, this exhibition is quite the opposite, showing the restrained and quiet works of a pair of artists who explored the subtleties of light, shadow and muted tones. The show features Ryman's white paintings and Morandi's tight still-life arrangements.
Read MoreTroika will be exhibiting Testing Time in Bread and Jam, a series of exhibitions taking place in a gutted and soon to be refurbished house in 52 Whitbread Road, Brockley, London.
Read MoreAnd the widespread interest in abstract painting continues apace: The eccentrically intimate still lives of Giorgio Morandi are being shown with the incomparable white paintings of Robert Ryman in Object/Space at Kohn Gallery opening September 19.
Read MoreTinte tenui e nature morte che si avvicinano all’arte astratta. Le tele di Giorgio Morandi, a cinquant’anni dalla morte dell’artista continuano ad affascinare il pubblico e ad esercitare influenze sugli artisti contemporanei. Lo dimostra la mostra “Object / Space – Giorgio Morandi e Robert Ryman” realizzata dalla Galleria d’Arte Maggiore G.A.M.
Read MoreA cinquant’anni dalla sua scomparsa, l’attività creativa di Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964), continua ad esercitare la propria influenza sugli artisti contemporanei. Ad offrirne un esempio concreto è la mostra “Object / Space - Giorgio Morandi e Robert Ryman” realizzata dalla Galleria d’Arte Maggiore G.A.M. di Bologna in collaborazione con la Kohn Gallery di Los Angeles che, dal 19 settembre al 31 ottobre, metterà a confronto l’opera dei due artisti negli spazi espositivi al 1227 di Highland Avenue.
Read MoreThe show, including Troika's new sculpture Polar Spectrum, explores the theme of perception, what it is influenced by, its relationship with the concept of truth and the differences between subjective experiences.
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