Ed Kienholz
1927 Born in Fairfield, Washington
1994 Died in Hope, Idaho
1953-73 Resident of Los Angeles

Nancy Reddin Kienholz
1943 Born in Los Angeles, California
Lives and works in Hope, Idaho; Houston, Texas and Berlin, Germany

full biography

 

Current exhibition
Nancy Reddin Kienholz
5 September - 4 October 2008
Reception for the artist: Friday, 5 September, 6 - 8 pm
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Recent exhibitions
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s from LACMA’s Collection
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, CA
19 August - 30 March 2007
Hammer Building
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, CA
www.lacma.org
 
Los Angeles-Paris: 1955-1985
Centre Pompidou
Paris France
8 March - 17 July 2006
www.centrepompidou.fr
(catalogue)

Kienholz
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
14 May - 29 August 2005
www.balticmill.com
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
16 December 2005 - 5 March 2006
www.mca.com.au

 

Publications
Kienholz: A Retrospective
Walter Hopps
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY, 1996

Tableau Drawings
1 March - 31 March 2001
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

The Merry-Go-World or Begat By Chance and The Wonder Horse Trigger
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
26 September - 24 October 1992

Kienholz
Louver Gallery, New York, NY
7 October - 11 November 1989



 

Exhibition
Kienholz
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Works available
Ed Kienholz 1954 - 1972
Ed and Nancy Kienholz 1972 - 1994 >>
Nancy Reddin Kienholz 1990 - the present

Exhibition
Kienholz

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Works available
Ed Kienholz 1954 - 1972
Ed and Nancy Kienholz 1972 - 1994
Nancy Reddin Kienholz 1990 - the present


Edward & Nancy Reddin Kienholz
Useful Art No. 3 (table & chairs), 1992
mixed media tableau
48 x 60 x 39 1/2 in.
[121.9 x 152.4 x 100.3 cm.]

Dome Edition Dusseldorf edition of 300
 

Drawing for the Middle Islands No. 2
 

T.A.S.D. #1 (The Art Show Drawing)
 

Drawing for the Commercial No. 3
 

Still Live
 

Drawing for the Art Show (Family)
 

Drawing for the Art Show (Family)

Drawing for the Art Show (Family)
 

Drawing for the Art Show (Family)
 

H.I.D. #8
 


Kurs A (H.I.D.)

 


Kurs B (H.I.D.)

 


White Easel with Machine Pistol

 

The Bouquet

 

The Kitchen Table
 

Death Watch
 

The Returning
 

Somewhere a Different Drummer
 


The Fountain
(from the White Easel Series)

 


White Easel with Face

 


White Easel with Wooden Hand

 

The Opti-Can Royale,
edition of 55
 

Billionaire
 


A One

 

The Rhinestone Beaver Peep Show Triptych
 


The Block Head
edition of 75

 


Bout Round Eleven

 

Drawing for Still Live
 

The Model
 

The Ozymandias Parade
 

The Caddy Court
 

Showing it Hard at the Summit
 

The Hoerengracht
 

Drawing for the Hoerengracht No. 5
 

Drawing for the Hoerengracht No. 7
 

Drawing for the Hoerengracht No. 8
 

Drawing for the Hoerengracht No. 9
 

Drawing for the Hoerengracht No. 10
 

Drawing for the Hoerengracht No. 11
 

Drawing for the Hoerengracht No. 12
 

Double Cross
(Iran Contra Text)
edition of 35
 

The Big Double Cross
 

Another Ida

The Morning Walk
 

Still Dead
End Dead No. I
 

Still Dead End Dead II
 

The Cost
 

The Potlach
 

Fast Walking Through Sparrows
 


People Holding Bound Ducks

 


Belly, The Kid

 

Berlin Volksempfanger
 

To Mourn a Dead Horse
 

Trade Watercolors



 


Bronze Bound Duck edition of 2

 

Man Holding Bound Duck
(Bound Duck Original)
 

The Bear Chair
 

My Country 'Tis Of Thee
 

The Merry-Go-World or Begat By Chance and the
Wonder Horse Trigger
 

Angel Monoseries
 

Abu-ben Monoseries
 

Carmen Monoseries
 

Elle Monoseries
 

Dwowd Monoseries
 

Tank Monoseries
 

Methenge Monoseries
 

Yip Monoseries
 

Drawing from Angel
 

Drawing from Methenge #1
 

Drawing from Carmen #2
 

Drawing from Elle
 

Prototype for Angel #1
 

Prototype for Dwowd #1
 

Prototype for Yip #1
 

Prototype for Elle #1
 

Prototype for Abu-Ben #1
 

Prototype for Carmen #1
 

Prototype for Methenge #1
 


The Choice

 

For $989.00
 

Useful Art No. 3 (table & chairs)
 

Surely Shirley
 

Chicken Little
 

God's In His Heaven - All's Right With The World
 

Hooverman
 

The Pool Hall
 

Baby Brother
 

Feeding the Hog
 

76 J.C.s Led the Big Charade
 

The Newses
 

J.C. #20
(additional works available)
 
                                                                                                                       

Installation Photography, Kienholz
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
14 May – 29 August 2005 >>
   
                                 

Installation Photography, Kienholz
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
14 May – 29 August 2005 >>
                                     

Watercolors

“With the Watercolors Kiehholz contrived a system of currency, as he termed it, whereby the work was sold for the amount hand painted on the framed sheet of paper or bartered for the items small and large stenciled on the sheet. The Watercolors were a grand spoof on the value of the artist’s name in the marketplace; all the buyer actually received was a sheet of paper good for the amount or item Kienholz painted on it, simply because he and the artist agreed it should be so.”

Quote by Robert L. Pincus taken from “On a Scale that Competes with the World: the Art of Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz.” University of California Press, Berkeley, 1990, p. 56.

Please note: The trade watercolors depicted above are representative images only. The actual works available include the following, dated 1990: For $487, For $489, For $490, For $491, For $492, For $494, For $495, For $496, For $528, For $529, For $530, For $531, For $532, For $533, For $534, For $535, For $536, For $537, and For $538.

             

Installation Photography, Kienholz
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
14 May – 29 August, 2005 >>
 


Mono-series, drawings and prototypes >>

"Each 'drawing' reflects upon one of the eight environments contained in the interior of the 'Merry-Go-World or Begate by Chance and the Wonder Horse Trigger'. These works are fully developed three-dimensional paintings made during the course of construction the tableaux, 'Merry-Go-World'. In response to an offer from Gemini G.E.L., the Kienholzes considered making and edition based on the carousel. However, sensing the complexity of such and undertaking in three dimensions, they declined the offer and instead made a series of unique pieces. The fabrication of these works was accomplished in their studios in Berlin and Idaho. The results are the 'mono-series', so named as they are not editions of identical works, of eight images which also relate to the interior of the 'Merry-Go-World'."

Quote by Peter Goulds, October 1992, taken from the Foreword from
"Ed and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, The Merry-Go-World or
Begat By Chance and The Wonder Horse Trigger."

L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 1992, p. 3.