If you haven’t seen our current Leon Kossof exhibition, or want an insightful reflection on Kossoff’s paintings and drawings of London, we urge you to read a fantastic review of the show by James Scarborough featured in the Huffington Post. Here’s a short excerpt: 

“Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”
– Samuel Johnson

Isolate a square foot (Yes, they’re that big), preferably in a corner along the edge of one of Leon Kossoff’s paintings in “London Landscapes,” his exhibition at L.A. Louver. Forget its subject. See how the massed and sculptural globs of paint seem to course and run together like the blood, sinew, and muscle from an anatomy lesson scene from one of his beloved Old Masters. An anatomy lesson, indeed: the patient is London, the surgery is as emotional as it is physical, seen here in over 90 paintings and drawings culled from 1952 - 2012.

Read the complete review online.

“Leon Kossoff: London Landscapes” is on view through March 1st.