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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 his …
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 and …
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 the …
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 the …
Now that ROLL CALL: 11 Artists from L.A. is in its final week, we’re taking the opportunity to share portraits of the exhibiting artists by Los Angeles-based photographer Jim McHugh. McHugh is renowned for …
MY LA INTERVIEW SERIES with PATRICK MARTINEZ Where did you grow up in LA? 90’s Pasadena, SGV What is your favorite thing about Los Angeles? The sublime beauty of the city. Traffic in the …
Where did you grow up in LA? I grew up in Boyle Heights, although as a kid – I traveled all over the city. I also moved around a lot so I lived in …
I want the paint to work as flesh does. If you don’t overdirect your models and you focus on their physical presence, interesting things often happen. You find that you capture something about them …
“Drawing is not a mysterious activity. Drawing is making an image which expresses commitment and involvement…rejecting ideas which are possible to preconceive…destroying images that lie, discarding images that are dead.” Leon Kossoff, in Frank …
Ever since the age of twelve, I have drawn and painted London…the strange ever-changing light, the endless streets and the shuddering feel of the sprawling city linger in my mind like a faintly glimmering …
Due to an overwhelming response to our current exhibitions, we are pleased to announce that David Hockney “The Yosemite Suite” and Heather Gwen Martin will be extended through October 1, 2016. Summer hours will continue …
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has released a new video series on their website that feature different artists discussing works from their permanent collection. Alison Saar was invited to participate and …
David Hockney “The Yosemite Suite,” a series of landscape of the famed national park, were all made on the artist’s iPad and in situ. The iPad afforded the artist a sense of freedom to create …
Heather Gwen Martin’s vividly colored abstract paintings stem from a controlled fluidity, dictated by a transference of energy directly onto the canvas. Martin begins by making a series of preparatory sketches with pencil on …
During visits to California’s Yosemite Valley in 2010 and 2011, David Hockney sought to capture its resplendent landscape. Working in situ, the artist rendered the scenery using a drawing application on his iPad. With …
Over his 45 year career as an artist, Don Suggs has often returned to the vividly colored concentric circles that continue to remain at the core of his work. This ongoing fascination with circular …
Pairing sculpture with painting, [Jason] Martin has effectively created works that one can’t help but get right up next to. Nose-to-drip with the cloth-covered aluminum panels, part of the work’s appeal comes in the …
A well-established painter and near octogenarian, David Hockney isn’t the likeliest candidate for making iPad art, but that doesn’t mean he approaches the medium with any less zeal. Like his previous renderings with the …
In Peach Boy (2016) Gajin Fujita draws his primary inspiration from Toyohara Kunichika, a Japanese woodblock print artist. Kunichika is one of Gajin’s favorite artists and is known for depicting theatre actors. The particular …
With the installation of Richard Deacon’s stainless steel sculpture Siamese Metal #6 in the Skyroom, we’re taking a look back at some of his earlier installations in our unique open air space. Well know for his …
One of the most distinguishable shifts in Jason Martin’s new body of work is his use of color. Whereas previous paintings featured monochromatic applications, these new works embrace a variety of palettes and display …
We’re thrilled to be showing new work by Alison Saar in May 2016. In this new body of work, she’s taken inspiration from Cab Calloway’s 1934 song “ Call of the Jitter Bug.” If you’d …
We’ll be presenting an exhibition of new works by Jason Martin. The artist has titled the exhibition Counterfeit, “to express the duplication of a subject.” In over a dozen new works on view, the …
An air of everyday horror pervades, as in the collaborative assemblage Queen Anne, 1980, which emanates a low-level buzz from a jerrican-as-television sharing the surface of a cheap demilune table with an ashtray sporting …
Listen to a recent radio interview with sculptor Peter Shelton and David Colosi, host of the Clocktower radio show. (Click here for the audio). As a visual supplement to the interview, we’ve gathered images …
The Laguna Art Museum has organized an exhibition of works on paper by Frederick Hammerlsey. Although primarily known for his colorful abstract hard-edge paintings, Hammersley maintained an active studio practice that included making works …
Famed ceramic artist and “Mama of Dada,” Beatrice Wood was born on this day in 1893. She shared a special relationship with Marcel Duchamp, whom along with Henri-Pierre Roche, founded The Blind Man Magazine in …
Ed and Nancy Kienholz’s Bout Round Eleven is a largest work by the couple on view in our current exhibition Kienholz Televisions. Created in 1982, the tableau features two life-size figures: A man sits at …
Looking for new and out of print art books to add to your library? Printed Matter’s L.A. Art Book Fair is the place to be! We’ll be there with a selection of books on …
The story behind what inspired the name L.A. Louver and the gallery’s original 1976 logo as told by Peter Goulds: “A Rose by any other name Peter Goulds on L.A. Louver” In 1920, Marcel …
Computer art that pre-dates MacBooks and Photoshop by decades – In 1969, Frederick Hammersley produced an extensive series of “Computer Drawings” which he programmed and printed from an IBM mainframe computer, a mammoth machine that would …
Throughout the course of Ed and Nancy Kienholz’s careers and collaborations, the television found its way into many of their works and became a recurring theme. In February 2016, we’ll be presenting an exhibition …
Fantastic profile on Matt Wedel in the current January 2016 issue of Cincinnati Magazine – “There’s a lot of muscle memory in those pieces,” Wedel says of the botanical-succuli series, which was begun during …