Journal
When L.A. Louver Founding Director Peter Goulds was a visiting lecturer at UCLA from 1972-74, the work of Marcel Duchamp featured significantly in his teaching. Goulds intended to make a series of short …
L.A. Louver is delighted to present a focused look at Matt Wedel's "Mythology Plate" series. Rich with color, intricate patterns, and creative imagery, these nine unique works from a limited series each depict …
In honor of David Hockney’s 88th birthday today, L.A. Louver is highlighting two works on paper by the artist that are currently on view in L.A. Louver Celebrates 50 Years as a complement …
L.A. Louver Celebrates 50 Years contains two large-scale recent paintings by Los Angeles artist Gajin Fujita. In Angelic Intervention (AI) (2023), Fujita presents two putti, infant cherubim most frequently found in Renaissance and Baroque religious paintings. Tattooed with …
Terry Allen’s complex, polymathic body of work sprawls across a multitude of artistic modes including drawing, painting, video, sculpture, writing, and music. Continually shapeshifting, accumulating, and turning back and in on itself, his …
Edward & Nancy Kienholz, Drawing for the Ozymandias Parade, 1989, mixed media assemblage, 22 1/2 x 16 in. (57.2 x 40.6 cm) Edward Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz used the term “drawing” to describe …
Two iconic works by Charles Garabedian are included in L.A. Louver Celebrates 50 Years. Garabedian’s ambiguous, dream-like Woman in the Bathroom (1973) coalesces many concerns that are central to the artist’s oeuvre: namely, abstract figuration, architectural …
One of Britain’s most celebrated postwar artists, Leon Kossoff (1926-2019) is best known for his cityscapes of London and his evocative portraits painted from life and memory. The London landscape and the human …
William Brice’s cryptic dreamscape Untitled (1969)—on view now in L.A. Louver Celebrates 50 Years—represents a significant inflection point for the artist, produced just as he was settling into his iconic mature style. Presaging …
In our fifty-year history, L.A. Louver has been indelibly shaped by people and place. The Bohemian art haven that was 1970s Venice Beach provided fertile ground for the gallery’s growth and proximity to …
In January 1976, L.A. Louver opened at 55 North Venice Boulevard in Venice, California. Our inaugural exhibition showcased the neon art of Lili Lakich; a second solo exhibition of Lakich’s neon art followed …
L.A. Louver’s connection to Marcel Duchamp began at the gallery’s inception. While teaching at UCLA in the early 1970s, Founding Director Peter Goulds was so inspired by Duchamp’s Fresh Widow (1920)—a pun-infused sculpture of a …
In 1992 L.A. Louver presented the monumental exhibition Poem Makers: Wallace Berman, Jess, and George Herms which showcased the limited-edition facsimile version of Wallace Berman’s Semina; an underground art and poetry publication in …
We’re kicking off our Monday Mantra series to infuse your week with a little mindfulness and self-care. Today, we’re setting our intentions while contemplating Tom Wudl’s sublime painting, “One Hundred Trillion Concentrations” (2015).⠀
How are you self-isolating? Alison Saar shared her quarantine book and music picks with the Los Angeles Times. “I started a book that’s somewhere between prose and a novel, “The Blue Clerk” by …
With the gallery closed to public, we’ll be sharing online resources related to our exhibitions and gallery program through our website and social media channels. So please, keep following along with us! Don …
Sculptor Matt Wedel has returned to his ceramic roots. Known for his monumental sculptures that push the material limits of clay, Wedel has focused his technical prowess into a new series titled “The Face …
For nearly two decades, Mark di Suvero’s public sculpture “Declaration” has cut a welcoming shape in the skyline of Venice Beach. The “V” shaped arms reaching out from this 62-foot sculpture beckon out …
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our dear friend, Leon Kossoff. He was 92 years of age. “Our thoughts are with his friends and family, who along with …
In his new work “Xing the River Styx” (2018), Gajin Fujita makes reference to a woodblock print by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) titled “Kishin Omatsu Shirosaburo o Korosu Zu” or “Picture of the Demon …
Leon Kossoff created his etching in response to The Holy Family on the Steps, 1648 by Nicolas Poussin, owned by the Cleveland Museum of Art. When included in the 1996 Poussin exhibition at the …
“America made me great.” So says artist Rina Banerjee, reflecting on her immigrant upbringing in New York and Philadelphia’s Fox Chase neighborhood, in an interview for the catalog of the Pennsylvania Academy of …
RICHARD DEACON & SUI JIANGUO 6 September – 20 October 2018 Reception for the artists: Thursday, 6 September, 6-8pm L.A. Louver is pleased to present a two-person exhibition with British artist Richard Deacon …
Per Kirkeby (1938–2018) “On 9 May, the Danish artist Per Kirkeby died at age 79 after a long illness. . The many approaches available to Kirkeby’s work reflect his unlimited exploration of art …
Over an artistic career that spanned six decades, Henri Matisse worked as a painter, sculptor, muralist, designer and printmaker. While he displayed a deft proficiency in a wide range of mediums, Matisse described …
ART NOW LA Deborah Butterfield: ‘Three Sorrows’The Equine Transformed by Jody Zellen Deborah Butterfield‘s exhibition at LA Louver begins outside the gallery with Kelly Canyon, 2016. At 98″ high x 86″ long, this …
Studio Visit: Rebecca Campbell, The Subjective Lens of Perception By Gary Brewer “There is a painting in her studio, “Miss April 1971,” a 6 x 14 foot long painting of a 1971 Playboy …
Spanning the breadth of the artist’s career, Richard Diebenkorn: Works on Paper, 1949-1992 (at L.A. Louver through November 4, 2017) presents a concise overview of the artist’s output and the diverse range of subject …
Featuring works from 1967 - 2017, our current exhibition follows the course of Colombian-born artist Fanny Sanín’s 50-year career– from an early abstract expressionist painting to later hard-edge geometric paintings and works on …
Taking a look back at our 2005 exhibition of late work by Australian artist Fred Williams. Titled Fred Williams: The Later Landscapes 1975-1981, the exhibition presented a selection of the artist’s finest paintingsfrom …
Over the course of his career, Richard Diebenkorn maintained parallel practices of painting and drawing. While each activity held separate domains in the studio, the two modes of making were in constant dialogue …
Looking back at Richard Deacon’s recent exhibition at the San Diego Museum of Art, which came to a close on September 4, 2017. Richard Deacon: What You See Is What You Get is …
Today marks the end of two exhibitions here at L.A. Louver, Ben Jackel: Reign of Fire, exquisitely rendered clay and wooden sculptures of warfare weaponry; and Kienholz: The Jungen, The Non War Memorial and Still …