tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25573115226970529112024-03-13T20:58:44.226-07:00Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art BlogA Contemporary Art Blog. Jonathan Novak's inventory consists of paintings, drawings, sculpture, and prints by artists such as John Baeder, Robert Bechtle, Fernando Botero, Joseph Cornell, Jim Dine, Richard Diebenkorn, Jean Dubuffet, Richard Estes, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Ralph Goings, David Hockney, Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom McKinley, Robert Motherwell, Takashi Murakami, Ed Ruscha, Niki de St. Phalle, Wayne Thiebaud, Andy Warhol, and Tom Wesselmann.JONATHAN NOVAK CONTEMPORARY ART | LOS ANGELEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00494102020345565960noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557311522697052911.post-62782961487555471112018-02-07T17:26:00.002-08:002018-02-07T17:36:25.143-08:00About our Gallery - Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art<div style="text-align: justify;">
Since 1978, Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art has been an important source for Post-War and Contemporary American and European art. </div>
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The current gallery location opened in 2000 and is located in the heart of Century City, adjacent to Beverly Hills and the west side of Los Angeles. </div>
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Gallery inventory includes paintings, drawings, sculpture, and prints by established artists from significant Post-War movements including Abstract Expressionism, Color Field, Minimalism, Pop Art, and Photorealism.
Jonathan Novak has been an exhibitor at international art fairs in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, Palm Beach, Palm Springs, Southampton, and Aspen. Heis a member of the Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA), The International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA), and the Private Art Dealers Association (PADA).
The gallery is open by appointment. View Artists and Artworks.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pictured: Jim Dine and Niki de Saint Phalle</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pictured: Sam Francis, Robert Motherwell, Jim Dine</td></tr>
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JONATHAN NOVAK CONTEMPORARY ART | LOS ANGELEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00494102020345565960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557311522697052911.post-62780328793718874482017-11-06T17:37:00.000-08:002018-02-07T17:42:27.322-08:00Kikuo Saito: November 6, 2017 - January 9, 2018<div style="text-align: justify;">
Kikuo Saito (1939-2016) is an internationally acclaimed artist who was born in Tokyo, Japan. In 1966, Saito began working in New York City, where he would become the studio assistant for Helen Frankenthaler, Larry Poons, and Kenneth Noland. </div>
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It is fitting that Saito built his career in New York; his work radiates the sensibility of artists from the renowned New York School. We can see a strong likeness to seminal Abstract Expressionists: Willem DeKooning, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Motherwell, and Hans Hofmann. </div>
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The dynamic paintings within this exhibition were created by placing the canvases on the floor. While painting, Saito was able to dance around the canvases, generating motion and energy. Moving freely around his works allowed Saito to layer his compositions in a complex, rhythmic manner. These paintings are filled with pigment from edge to edge; they are beautifully abstract and allude to atmospheric environments. Saito’s lyrical paintings are robust yet harmonious and are defined by thoughtful color and powerful brushstrokes. </div>
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These works are rooted in color and in the very act of creating brushstrokes. Each work embodies a melodic song and dance denoting resolve, grace, strength, and a language of gestural marks that speak to the artist’s process and give glimpse into his process. </div>
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The body of work presented in this collection came from The Estate of Kikuo Saito and are being shown for the first time. The works represent the culmination of decades of artistic development; they are some of the artist’s most fluid, evolved, passionate and vibrant paintings. These works help us to honor the memory of Kikuo Saito, a great artist of our time.</div>
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Inspired by a deep connection to his native English Spike Island and the surrounding nature, Richard Long (born 1945) has created a powerful body of work entitled The Spike Island Tapes. </div>
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Long, an artist who has for many years relished in scenic walks in the rural English countryside is known for his outstanding work in connection to the land. Considered a member of the British Land Artists movement, Long has since the 1960s created impactful large-scale sculpture, paintings, and prints, often derived from actual rocks, bark, and elements found within the scenery itself. </div>
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His expansive and meditative works have been exhibited in museums, galleries, public spaces, and the great outdoors. Long has traveled the world to places as far reaching from his hometown of Bristol as Antarctica, Japan, India, China, Argentina, South Africa, California, and The Sahara Desert. During his explorations of these vast spaces, he has created unlikely sculptures and installations, cultivated from the earth. </div>
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While Long gains much inspiration from the natural world around him, he has been particularly influenced by the River Avon, a cherished body of water near his hometown. He has historically used mud directly from the river within his works; The Spike Island Tapes were inspired by the mud of The River Avon. This powerful body of work emulates Long’s intrinsic connection to his roots, his home and its landscape. </div>
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For The Spike Island Tapes, Long created 12 massive aluminum etching plates, each eight feet long. Carborundum, a new medium to Long, allowed the artist to become deeply engrossed within his printmaking process rendering some of the largest prints that he has created to date. These works are filled with tremendous surface texture and motion. </div>
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An adept printmaker, Long has experience not only in lithography and screen printing but also in etching which intuitively took him to carborundum, yielding The Spike Island Tapes, the most mature and exciting editioned works yet. </div>
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<b>The Prints within The Spike Island Tapes </b></div>
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Long chose to present four large sheets together to create one work that could fill an entire wall; Mississippi River Blues is that work, utilizing white ink atop black paper that was washed with black acrylic paint. </div>
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Hickory Wind, Sweet Old World, The Shaskeen Reel, and The Lark in Clear Air were all selected to stand alone or in pairs in their designated colors of black and red. </div>
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The Speed of the Sound of Loneliness was created as a diptych; the prints were rotated so that the drips faced inward and toward one another with the movement running horizontally. </div>
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These works are of exceedingly small editions, ranging from two to four impressions of each. </div>
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Long has exhibited throughout the globe at the following institutions: The Museum of Modern Art (Oxford), The National Gallery of South Africa (South Africa), The Tate Gallery (London), Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain (France), The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, The Royal Academy of Arts (London), Museum Kunst Palast (Germany), The Tate Modern (London), The Guggenheim (Bilbao), The Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston), Sao Paulo Biennal (Brazil), and The Guggenheim (New York), and others.</div>
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JONATHAN NOVAK CONTEMPORARY ART | LOS ANGELEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00494102020345565960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557311522697052911.post-92133984325114200862017-02-07T14:51:00.000-08:002017-03-10T14:52:58.238-08:00Art Palm Springs 2017<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art will exhibit a significant body of work by internationally renowned Post-War and Contemporary artists at Art Palm Springs, February 16-19, 2017 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. <a href="http://novakart.com/exhibitions-2/art-palm-springs-2017/">Exhibition Page Link</a>. Artists include Sam Francis, Jim Dine, Frank Stella, Helen Frankenthaler, Richard Diebenkorn, Roy Lichtenstein, Julian Opie, Paul Jenkins, Howard Hodgkin, Jean Dubuffet, John Baeder, Robert Cottingham, and Wayne Thiebaud.</div>
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As a representative of Jim Dine, Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art will exhibit the artist's most iconic images including hearts, robes, and Venus de Milo, as well as his most recent body of abstract work. Novak will also exhibit major works by Sam Francis and Helen Frankenthaler, coming from long-held private collections. Frank Stella's Pergusa Three, one of the most important works from the Circuit series, will be on view along with Richard Diebenkorn's prized Ocean Park series and exciting new hand-painted editions by Howard Hodgkin. Novak's selections include paintings, drawings, monotypes, sculpture, and editioned works from these and other influential artists from Abstract Expressionism, Pop, Photorealism, and Minimalism.
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Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, a long-standing gallery in Southern California, is an important source for Post-War and Contemporary American and European art. The gallery is located in the heart of Century City, adjacent to Beverly Hills and the west side of Los Angeles. The gallery's extensive inventory includes paintings, drawings, sculpture, and prints by acclaimed artists from significant Post-War movements including Abstract Expressionism, Color Field, Minimalism, Pop Art, and Photorealism.
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Jonathan Novak has been an exhibitor at international art fairs in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, Palm Beach, Palm Springs, Southampton, and Aspen. He is a member of the Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA), The International Fine Print Dealers of America (IFPDA), and the Private Art Dealers of America (PADA).</div>
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Booth 307 Palm Springs Convention Center </div>
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JONATHAN NOVAK CONTEMPORARY ART | LOS ANGELEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00494102020345565960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557311522697052911.post-27225876571499051532016-11-28T14:38:00.000-08:002017-03-10T14:53:27.290-08:00Art Miami 2016<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art is pleased to be exhibiting at Art Miami from November 29 - December 4. <a href="http://novakart.com/exhibitions-2/artmiami/">Exhibition Page Link</a>. Novak will be featuring significant works by Sam Francis from the 1960s – 1980s, celebrating the artist's enduring legacy as one of the most renown American Abstract Expressionists. The centerpiece of the gallery's exhibition is an extraordinary Sam Francis painting on canvas, massive in scale at ten feet. This monumental work will be displayed at the Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art booth (#C213) at the Art Miami Wynwood Arts District. </div>
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Novak will also be showcasing a diverse collection of works by important artists from the Post-War movements of Abstract Expressionism, Pop, Photorealism, and Minimalism including Sam Francis, Jim Dine, Frank Stella, Niki de Saint Phalle, Robert Cottingham, Roy Lichtenstein, Wayne Thiebaud, Paul Jenkins, Helen Frankenthaler, Howard Hodgkin, Jean Dubuffet, John Baeder, Lucas Samaras, Julian Opie, and others. The selection includes paintings, drawings, monotypes, sculpture, and editioned works from this group of revered and influential artists. </div>
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Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art a long-standing gallery in Southern California, is an important source for Post-War and Contemporary American and European art. The gallery is located in the heart of Century City, adjacent to Beverly Hills and the west side of Los Angeles. The gallery's extensive inventory includes paintings, drawings, sculpture, and prints by acclaimed artists from significant Post-War movements including Abstract Expressionism, Color Field, Minimalism, Pop Art, and Photorealism. </div>
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Jonathan Novak has been an exhibitor at international art fairs in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, Palm Beach, Palm Springs, Southampton, and Aspen. He is a member of the Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA), The International Fine Print Dealers of America (IFPDA), and the Private Art Dealers of America (PADA).</div>
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Jim Dine is known for his timeless iconography; hearts, robes, and Venus de Milo are just some of the themes strongly associated with the artist's vast oeuvre. </div>
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At the age of 81, the artist is passionately revisiting one of the most influential movements in Post-War art: Abstract Expressionism. </div>
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Within <i><b>Jim Dine: Abstraction</b></i>, a wide array of recent paintings and graphics demonstrates the artist’s journey into his new aesthetic. </div>
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For much of Dine’s career, hints of abstraction could be found in the backgrounds of his works. In the last decade we have seen a greater focus on the strength and intensity of background abstract elements, causing the representational imagery to pop out on the surface. In Dine's newest work, we witness the background abstraction, so inherently captivating, moving to the foreground and taking center stage. Dine invites us into a complex, mysterious, and colorful journey of beauty in his exploration of abstraction. </div>
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The canvases in this exhibition present Dine’s recent work with confidence and joy; they are filled with vivid color, texture, and dimension without reference to his prior imagery. </div>
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Throughout Dine’s career, the artist has also been an avid printmaker enthusiastically approaching the art form out of his love for the process. In his new body of abstract graphics, Dine has proven fearless with his experimentation of composition as well as techniques used to create the finished work. The artist has inventively used unlikely methods: power-tools, coffee grounds, India ink, and thickly collaged elements in order to give each of his compositions the impact of a unique work, with each impression heavily worked by the artist’s hand. </div>
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Dine’s most recent work is the birth of uninhibited expression and discovery. These creations make a powerful statement about the artist's continuous growth and spirit of adventure. Dine's large abstraction transports us into a new realm of color, surface texture, composition and form.</div>
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(Right) <em>White Truck on the Right–Airport, Far Left</em> – 63″ x 49 1/4″, 2015</div>
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(Right) <em>Left-Handed Woodcut</em> – 37″ x 53″, 2015</div>
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JONATHAN NOVAK CONTEMPORARY ART | LOS ANGELEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00494102020345565960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557311522697052911.post-36981266830345711532016-04-06T15:31:00.000-07:002017-03-10T15:25:48.581-08:00Julian Opie: Nature 1<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Consisting of 14 laser-cut powder-coated aluminum wall reliefs of boats, pebbles, sheep, and fish, these new works were inspired by Julian Opie’s observations in both London and Cornwall, places in the UK where the artist has homes. Having grown up with art of the post-war St. Ives School, Opie developed a keen awareness of British artists such as Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson. In making these new steel works, however, he has chosen to contrast some of the traditional subjects of British Landscape art with a medium and material which alludes to a more contemporary urban, post-industrial world.</span><br />
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<span class="s1">Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art is pleased to present Yale-educated, Wyoming-based artist Chris Pfister’s <a href="http://novakart.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2ea279813f456b8e018d8040a&id=a6f15db17a&e=011826f40b"><span class="s2">The Monochromes</span></a>. Pfister’s works present the interconnectedness of historic moments, past and present, through images set at the crossroads of memory, photography, and painting.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">The latest body of work, a collection of oil paintings executed in selective palettes of grey, sepia, and black and white responds to the continual accumulation of discarded images, found objects, news footage, snapshots, and archaeological records.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Pfister brings importance to these often fleeting images and inserts them back into the present, though they echo the past. The narrative paintings question how we see and remember people, things, and landscapes.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Addressing the coexistence of photography and painting in a digitized world of instant images, these works enact the history of oil paint on canvas and recognize the time it takes to make and appreciate paintings. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">In a careful process, Pfister hand-makes all of his paints and mediums in studio from raw pigments, adding unique dimension to his works.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>CHRIS PFISTER <i>Elder </i></b>Oil on canvas 2013 20" x 16" (50.8 x 40.6 cm)</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>CHRIS PFISTER <i>Giraffe </i></b>Oil on canvas 2014-15 60" x 48" (152.4 x 121.9 cm)</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>CHRIS PFISTER <i>Picnic </i></b>Oil on canvas 2013 14" x 18" (35.6 x 45.7 cm)</span></div>
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JONATHAN NOVAK CONTEMPORARY ART | LOS ANGELEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00494102020345565960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557311522697052911.post-39810807308015910362015-08-03T15:37:00.001-07:002017-03-10T15:32:19.418-08:00Wayne Thiebaud: Mountain Clouds<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">To continue our discussion on <a href="http://novakart.blogspot.com/2015/07/jean-dubuffet-vache-aux-deux-arbres.html">landscapes</a>, we focus our attention to Wayne Thiebaud's <i>Mountain Clouds. </i>The first thing that grabs you about the work is the unusual perspective. Most landscapes separate sky and ground with a horizon line, but <i>Mountain Clouds</i> does not. Instead, sky and mountain are all we can see, and the vertical, rather than the horizontal, is emphasized. Thiebaud foregrounds the mountain over a backdrop of matte blue sky, dotted with soft clouds. He makes the mountain the subject of a portrait, not just an inanimate chunk of earth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Closer inspection reveals that Thiebaud’s process is just as clever as his perspective. Since the 1960s, Thiebaud, always an experimenter, has occasionally adapted examples of his graphic work into paintings, drawing inspiration from Chinese landscape art as well as his fertile imagination and his Pop art roots. Here, he revisited a 1964 black etching depicting a mountain in the Sacramento Valley, where he lives. He partially covered its intricate lines and cross-hatching with carefully manipulated fields of watercolor, and created a cloud-filled sky in the etching’s original void. After Morris Louis, Thiebaud has employed the “stain” method of color field painting, which emphasizes the overall effects of color. However, unlike Louis’ images, Thiebaud’s works are representational, blending the hue-play of abstraction with the poignancy of real life captured on paper. </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>WAYNE THIEBAUD <i> Mountain Clouds </i></b>1964/1986 Watercolor over hard-ground and drypoint etching </span></span></div>
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JONATHAN NOVAK CONTEMPORARY ART | LOS ANGELEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00494102020345565960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557311522697052911.post-36059125103661048882015-07-30T11:16:00.001-07:002017-03-10T15:32:41.319-08:00Jean Dubuffet - Vache Aux Deux Arbres<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="s1"><b>JEAN DUBUFFET <i> Vache aux Deux Arbres </i></b>July 1943 </span><span class="s2"><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Landscape paintings are paradoxical. They do not depict us, but they are about us. They show us how we see the world—and call into question what that perception says about our cultures, our emotions, and our ideas about images themselves. </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">In a unique twist on landscape painting, Dubuffet refigures the French countryside into avant-garde art brut in Vache aux Deux Arbres. </span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">During the month of July 1943, Jean Dubuffet (1901 – 1985) and his wife Lili left Paris for a bicycling tour of the French countryside. The young artist stopped frequently along the way, capturing what he saw with a child’s gouache paint set and an album of artist’s paper. He later adapted much of this sketch series into larger works for his shocking debut exhibition at Galerie René Drouin, Paris in 1944. This painting, from that bicycle trip sketchbook, shows a cow grazing in front of two trees.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Dubuffet transforms the idyllic scene in a revolutionary way. The work deliberately lacks scale. The cow looks at least half as tall as the trees, and all of the objects seem to float around rather than being grounded in perspectival space. Simplified and flattened, the image subjects, while they resemble real elements of a landscape, seem to be symbolic: Dubuffet shows us the idea of a cow, trees, and a field rather than visual reproductions of those things, employing thick outlines and simple coloration to striking and unusual effect. Dubuffet, inspired by Jean Fautrier’s rudimentary flatness, undoes the idealization of the European landscape. The bright green and blue hues express the joy of a summer day, while the deliberately crude figuration of the countryside is one of the earliest examples of what would become Dubuffet’s signature style, art brut.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Not as childlike as it appears, Dubuffet’s art brut was in fact a bold, complex political protest, an atavistic response to the cruelty of WWII. Dubuffet believed the legitimacy of academic realism (a style he mastered at an early age) had been shattered by the war, that art had to be reinvented along with the universe it depicted. He and others—including Paul Klee and Max Ernst—turned to the art of the mentally ill for inspiration. A foray into the aesthetic these artists would create, Vache aux Deux Arbres gives us a fascinating glimpse at the psychology of a painter in transition from academic youth to avant-garde maturity, and at the roots of post-war art.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1">John Cage in the Crown Point Press studio, 1987.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><a href="http://novakart.com/artists/john-cage/">John Cage</a> (1912 –1992) was an influential American composer and artist known primarily for his cutting-edge experimental music. Cage began producing visual art in the late 1970s, after arthritis put an unfortunate end to his musical performances. In 1978, Cage set out to make a number of works with Crown Point Press in Oakland, CA. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Masterful early examples of the Crown Point etchings, <i>R3 (Where R = Ryoanji) </i>and<i> (R3) (Where R = Ryoanji) </i>visually capture the same cerebral blend of randomness and mathematical construction we can hear in Cage’s music. Elegantly minimal, maximally tonal, the Ryoanji etchings also show Zen Buddhism’s influence on Cage’s process-based style. Inspired by the <i>kare-sansui</i> Zen rock garden at Ryōan-ji, in Kyoto, Cage repeatedly placed fifteen stones on an etching plate and traced them in pencil. He positioned the rocks one at a time, using his ‘chance operations’ method, a random results-generator he derived from coin-flipping procedures outlined in the Chinese divination book <i>I Ching</i>. </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><i>R</i></span><span class="s2"><i><sup>3</sup></i><b><i><sup> </sup></i></b></span><span class="s1">refers to 15</span><span class="s3"><i><sup>3</sup></i></span><span class="s1">, meaning that Cage created 15 x 15 x 15 traces, individually placing and outlining each of the stones 225 times, totalling 3,375 traces—packed onto just one 7” x 21-1/2” etching plate. This formula, brilliant as it is obsessive, produces classic Cagean results: conceptual and deceptively effortless. The <i>Ryoanji</i> series in particular is also more fluid and gestural than some of Cage's earlier work, marking the transition into the final phase of his career, when he gave himself greater aesthetic control over his chance-made artwork.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>JOHN CAGE <i>(</i></b><i>R</i></span><span class="s2"><i><sup>3</sup></i></span><span class="s1"><b><i>) (Where R=Ryoanji)</i> and </b><i>R</i></span><span class="s2"><i><sup>3</sup></i></span><span class="s1"><b><i> (Where R=Ryoanji)</i></b></span><span class="s3"><i> </i> 1983<br />
Etchings on paper, each 17-5/16" x 13-7/8" (44 x 35.4 cm) </span><span class="s4"> © 2015, John Cage</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><br /><a href="http://johncage.org/">John Cage - Official Website</a></span></div>
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<a href="http://novakart.com/artists/john-cage/">John Cage Artist Page - Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art</a></div>
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<span class="s1"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGNwiQviiGU">John Cage at Work, 1978-1992 - Crown Point Press</a></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.last.fm/music/John+Cage">John Cage: Songs, Albums, and Pictures - Last FM</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/culture/2012/09/6537208/stunning-chance-made-visual-art-john-cage-gets-its-centennial-due">The Stunning Chance-Made Visual Art of John Cage Gets its Centennial Due - Capital New York</a><br />
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JONATHAN NOVAK CONTEMPORARY ART | LOS ANGELEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00494102020345565960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557311522697052911.post-64391295953377856552015-07-10T15:59:00.003-07:002015-07-10T16:00:23.096-07:00IMPORTANT WORKS ON PAPER<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">June 25 - August 28, 2015</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The exhibition covers a vast array of expression upon one of the most essential, raw mediums: paper. This unforgiving surface honestly reveals the artist’s expertise in a unique way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The exhibition is comprised of paintings, drawings, monotypes, and editioned works. A wide range of mediums is featured including oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, glitter, charcoal, colored pencil, graphite, and collage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On the homepage: Wayne Thiebaud – <em>Drawing of San Francisco</em>, David Hockney – <em>Road to Palm Springs</em>, Jean Dubuffet – <em>Vache aux Deux Arbres, </em>and Sam Francis – <em>Untitled (SF63-006).</em></span></div>
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Jim Dine - Tricky Teeth<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ralph Goings – <em>Blueberry Pie</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Jean Dubuffet – <em>Vache aux deux Arbres</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ralph Goings – <em>Napkin Box and Creamer</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sam Francis – <em>Untitled (SF63-006)</em></span></div>
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Charles Bell - <em>Tinker Toys and Clown</em></div>
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Howard Hodgkin - <i>La Plume de ma Tante</i></div>
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Jim Dine - <i>Hope</i></div>
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Howard Hodgkin - <i>La Plume de ma Tante</i></div>
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Sam Francis - <i>Untitled (SFM78-171; SFM78-050)</i></div>
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Robert Motherwell - <i>Untitled (P77-3122)</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">John Cage - <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;"><i>(R3) (Where R=Ryoanji); R3 (Where R=Ryoanji)</i></span></span></div>
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Randy Dudley - <i>Desert Tramline</i></div>
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Sam Messenger - <i>Veil from Ketos</i></div>
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Robert Motherwell - <i>Untitled (Phoenician Red) (M-76-2821)</i></div>
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John Baeder - <i>Shofar</i></div>
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JONATHAN NOVAK CONTEMPORARY ART | LOS ANGELEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00494102020345565960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557311522697052911.post-72248071729438722372015-01-26T12:26:00.004-08:002017-03-10T15:34:13.303-08:00Jim Dine: A Retrospective<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; padding: 8px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
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After moving from his hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1958, Dine quickly established himself in the post-war New York art scene, first with the Happenings movement at the encouragement of mentor Allan Kaprow, and later—tangentially—with the Pop Art movement. Although Dine draws upon images of popular culture similar to those consumed by Pop artists, his use of these objects does not serve the same impassive, ironic sensibility. Instead, Dine’s repetition of a concise visual lexicon with his signature expressionist style continues to nuance once-common forms with personal meaning.</div>
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PAINTINGS<strong><br /></strong></h3>
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The works included in this exhibition not only demonstrate Dine’s creativity across mediums but also within a given discipline. Dine’s paintings on canvas, panel, and paper often incorporate materials such as charcoal, sand, and collaged elements to depict his iconic forms.</div>
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After painting his first heart in 1966, the symbol became a central theme in Dine’s work. A self-described romantic artist, Dine sees the heart for its obvious connection to the strong emotions of love, but also values it as a geometric framework with which he can explore dynamic color relationships and textures. <em>Gossip</em> (1970-71) incorporates collage elements characteristic of some of Dine’s earliest works on paper along with cutout hearts and hand-applied coloring. The resulting work plays positive and negative space against one another to define the shape of the heart amongst evocative textual elements set within a matrix of numbers, which suggest but elude meaning. While<em>Gossip</em> examines the spatial and linguistic capacities of the heart icon, <em>Tricky Teeth</em> (1970-71) uses the form to address color relationships. Here, a flat, black heart is fixed within a pulsating passage of vibrant colors. While the punched lettering of the title is representative of Dine’s penchant for typographic exploration in his early works, the field of color anticipates some of his most recent abstractions.</div>
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In addition to color and form, the heart also allows Dine to explore texture. Brought together in this exhibition, the scraped-smooth surface of <em>Hearts in the Meadow </em>(1970) offers a tactile contrast to Dine’s more recent pairing of hearts entitled <em>And the Cherry Trees </em>(2014)<em>.</em> With this painterly work, Dine continues to reinvent the form. The artist’s assertive brushwork is heightened by a rich and grainy texture built up with the incorporation of charcoal and sand, endowing one of his most iconic images with fresh and exciting energy.</div>
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<em>Pepper (A Crime)</em> boasts Dine’s ability to explore new artistic territory while maintaining his authorial visual style. In this powerful work, Dine’s expressionist energy is freed from geometric form. Colors vibrate against one another in organic, cell-like shapes before blending into dense layers.</div>
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In the 1980s, Dine began incorporating the Venus de Milo in his work as a visual link to the great themes and traditions of western art history. To develop his own style, Dine first removed the head from a plaster-cast tourist replica, then worked and re-worked the forms of the body—often incorporating cubist-inspired breasts and altering the stance from a coy <em>contrapposto</em> to a confident, frontal stride.</div>
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The life size sculptures in this retrospective, <em>Milano</em> and <em>Napoli, </em>visually attest to Dine’s ability to endow the iconic figure with vastly different significance and emotion through slight variations of form and hand-applied enamel finishing. This contrast is echoed by the works’ titles, which evoke the cultural differences between Northern and Southern Italy.</div>
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With <em>Five Colorful Dancers, One Bronze Heart</em>, Dine playfully exaggerates Venus’ posture even further to create a rhythmic repetition of female forms centered on his iconic heart. The hand-applied patina and enamel lend this work an atmospheric quality that links the timeless notions of female beauty and love with Dine’s novel composition.</div>
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Like his work in bronze, Dine approaches printmaking as an opportunity to focus his creative energy on small editions of works that are often experimental in technique and finished by hand—rather than reproducing preexisting works in large numbers.</div>
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Acting as a masculine counterpart to <em>Milano </em>and <em>Napoli</em>, Dine’s 1995 prints included in this retrospective, <em>Very Picante</em> and <em>Pale Self</em>, contribute a pair of related yet diverse works to his ongoing investigation of the bathrobe as a visual theme. Dine’s first bathrobe image was adapted from a New York Times advertisement in 1964. His subsequent variations on the bathrobe in a variety of mediums have redefined the image as a metaphorical stand-in for the artist. For these two prints, Dine used both relief and intaglio printing to achieve a sandy, smoky texture combined with powerful fields of saturated color. Through the use of 14 individual plates, Dine creates distinct harmonies of color from the contemplative pastels of <em>Pale Self</em> to the buoyant hues in <em>Very Picante.</em></div>
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In addition to hand-applied color, Dine often experiments with combinations of printmaking techniques and implements. <em>With Aldo Behind Me</em> represents Dine’s inexhaustible exploration of the medium. Here, the artist has revisited plates originally made in collaboration with legendary French printmaker Aldo Commelynck and re-worked them using a wide range of techniques including aquatint, etching, drypoint, and mechanical abrasion to depict hand tools and paintbrushes. The result is a visual elegy for Dine’s life-long friendship with the printmaker also known for his work with earlier Modern artists including Picasso and Matisse.</div>
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Dine’s restless experimentation with print techniques often blurs the lines between mediums. With <em>It’s A Drawing, It’s A Print,</em> what begins as a multi-color woodblock print is finished with hand-applied charcoal drawing. <em>The Grand Carpet</em> further conflates categories by combining woodcut relief printing and drypoint intaglio on copperplate with single-reproduction monoprinting. The resulting works, although belonging to a small edition, are each unique in their own right. Finally, with <em>The Forest Up North, </em>Dine pushes printmaking to rival the scale and ambition of his paintings by combining a hand-painted heart floating amongst a vast forest of printed trees.</div>
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RETROSPECTIVE, PROSPECTIVE</h3>
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The pieces brought together by this retrospective demonstrate Dine’s continued ability to redefine his personal visual repertoire that has become so iconic, and—perhaps more importantly—to push beyond those forms in exciting new ways. The innovation and experimentation across mediums represented by the exhibition further expand traditional notions of Dine as painter, sculptor, and printmaker.</div>
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<em>Jim Dine: A Retrospective</em> will be on exhibit through March 12, 2015</div>
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JONATHAN NOVAK CONTEMPORARY ART | LOS ANGELEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00494102020345565960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557311522697052911.post-49280299243161919422014-07-28T16:30:00.004-07:002014-07-28T16:32:51.092-07:00DAVID PARRISH: FERRIS WHEEL<div>
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Our current exhibition, <i><a href="http://novakart.com/exhibitions-2/photorealism-the-everyday-illuminated/">Photorealism: The Everyday Illuminated</a></i> will be on display for three more weeks.</div>
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Today we present to you David Parrish and his painting <i>Ferris Wheel. </i>With plentiful color, brilliant motion, and unique composition, <i>Ferris Wheel</i> stands out as one of Parrish's important masterpieces.</div>
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"Four decades as an 'official' Photorealist--the early decades spent chasing, photographing, and painting motorcycles...Then later, the porcelain Elvises, Marilyns, Deans, the masks, the myriad kitschy gewgaws, toys, and thrill rides that were such fun to paint--the time has passed so quickly. </div>
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Now a fifth decade, I hope, and thanks to a generous friend who encouraged me to enter the new age, I have a PC, a printer, and a couple of point-and-shoot digital cameras--a whole new way to view the world! Small, lightweight, very portable--I carry a digital camera everywhere I go. </div>
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Today I am working on another motorcycle painting agian, at the same old stand, in the same old way, translating a photo image onto canvas with oil paint and sable brushes, but I've got a whole new toolbox full of goodies to help me accomplish the task a little bit more easily, and it's beginning to feel like the good old days all over again." </div>
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JONATHAN NOVAK CONTEMPORARY ART | LOS ANGELEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00494102020345565960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557311522697052911.post-89024625312744194702014-07-28T12:46:00.001-07:002014-07-28T12:47:05.412-07:00PHOTOREALISM: URBAN LANDSCAPES<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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JONATHAN NOVAK CONTEMPORARY ART | LOS ANGELEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00494102020345565960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557311522697052911.post-2783157406184564852014-06-05T16:53:00.000-07:002014-06-05T16:55:24.457-07:00ROBERTO BERNARDI | LE DUE LUCI<h2>
<br />"Art, for me, is the narration on canvas of everyday life experiences." -Roberto Bernardi, Photorealist painter</h2>
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JONATHAN NOVAK CONTEMPORARY ART | LOS ANGELEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00494102020345565960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557311522697052911.post-69795550343823716262014-05-29T16:21:00.000-07:002014-05-30T09:58:54.448-07:00PHOTOREALISM: ETHEREAL DREAMSCAPES<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Photorealists Jack Mendenhall, Robert Gniewek, Yigal Ozeri, David Parrish, Ben Schonzeit, and Rod Penner transport us to majestic sceneries that are hyperreal while simultaneously dreamlike. Evoking memory and imagination while remaining uncannily real, these paintings invite us to contemplate, drawing upon our own unique experiences.</span></div>
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JONATHAN NOVAK CONTEMPORARY ART | LOS ANGELEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00494102020345565960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557311522697052911.post-29284802266508662722014-05-23T15:48:00.000-07:002014-05-23T16:45:44.208-07:00AUTOMOBILES AND MOTORCYCLES IN PHOTOREALISM<div style="text-align: justify;">
Automobiles and motorcycles have long played important roles in our daily lives. Whether fueling a collector’s passion, empowering an individual’s freedom, or simply transporting people from place to place, vehicles maintain their longstanding importance in society. Automobiles and motorcycles have been, since the beginning of the movement, significant iconic subjects of Photorealist artists. </div>
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Esteemed Photorealists <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/elizabeth-patterson/">Elizabeth Patterson</a>, <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/john-baeder/">John Baeder</a>, <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/cheryl-kelley/">Cheryl Kelley</a>, <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/tom-blackwell/">Tom Blackwell</a>, <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/randy-dudley/">Randy Dudley</a>, <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/john-salt/">John Salt</a>, and <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/ralph-goings/">Ralph Goings</a> pay homage to the vehicle’s place in our lives.</div>
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JONATHAN NOVAK CONTEMPORARY ART | LOS ANGELEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00494102020345565960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557311522697052911.post-73154060638480689892014-05-12T17:13:00.001-07:002014-05-12T17:20:40.256-07:00PHOTOREALISM / THE EVERYDAY ILLUMINATEDMAY 12 – JULY 11, 2014<br />
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The Photorealist movement transforms the expressive and disciplined study of photographic imagery into highly detailed works of art. Since the 1970s, practitioners of the style have painted, drawn, and sculpted contemporary scenes with articulations of light playing across diverse surfaces: urban and suburban landscapes, the polished exteriors of automobiles or toys, appetizing scenes of food and drink, and the reflective windows and surfaces of seemingly familiar places. Photorealism developed in part as a reaction against the abstraction prevalent in modernist movements. Using their highly refined technical skills, often tricking the viewer (is this a photograph or is it a painting?), the Photorealists successfully tap into one’s emotions by recreating the atmosphere of a specific time and place. Memory is a key component of one’s experience with a Photorealistic work. The possibility of rekindling childhood images or nostalgia is likely, both consciously and subconsciously. </div>
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To some critics, the Photorealists may appear to merely recreate these photographic images into technically obsessive paintings, when in fact the works are acute expressions of the human experience, capturing precious and elusive moments in time. The Photorealists have the ability to take the common, the banal, and often ignored daily routines and to recognize and memorialize these scenes for posterity. In this realm of artwork, the ordinary transforms into the extraordinary. </div>
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Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art is pleased to present an extraordinary group of revered and influential American and European Photorealists: <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/linda-bacon/" style="-webkit-transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; vertical-align: baseline;">Linda Bacon</a>, <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/john-baeder/" style="-webkit-transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; vertical-align: baseline;">John Baeder</a>,<a href="http://novakart.com/luigi-benedicenti/" style="-webkit-transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; vertical-align: baseline;">Luigi Benedicenti</a>, <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/roberto-bernardi/" style="-webkit-transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; vertical-align: baseline;">Roberto Bernardi</a>, <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/tom-blackwell/" style="-webkit-transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; vertical-align: baseline;">Tom Blackwell</a>, <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/robert-bechtle/" style="-webkit-transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; vertical-align: baseline;">Robert Bechtle</a>, <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/charles-bell/" style="-webkit-transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; vertical-align: baseline;">Charles Bell</a>, <a href="http://novakart.com/pedro-caceres/" style="-webkit-transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; vertical-align: baseline;">Pedro Caceres</a>, <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/robert-cottingham/" style="-webkit-transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; vertical-align: baseline;">Robert Cottingham</a>, <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/randy-dudley/" style="-webkit-transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; vertical-align: baseline;">Randy Dudley</a>, <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/richard-estes/" style="-webkit-transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; vertical-align: baseline;">Richard Estes</a>, <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/robert-gniewek/" style="-webkit-transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; vertical-align: baseline;">Robert Gniewek</a>, <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/ralph-goings/" style="-webkit-transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; 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transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; vertical-align: baseline;">Don Jacot</a>, <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/cheryl-kelley/" style="-webkit-transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; vertical-align: baseline;">Cheryl Kelley</a>, <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/ron-kleemann/" style="-webkit-transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; vertical-align: baseline;">Ronald Kleemann</a>, <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/jack-mendenhall/" style="-webkit-transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; vertical-align: baseline;">Jack Mendenhall</a>, <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/bertrand-meniel/" style="-webkit-transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; vertical-align: baseline;">Bertrand Meniel</a>, <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/sharon-moody/" style="-webkit-transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; vertical-align: baseline;">Sharon Moody</a>, <a href="http://novakart.com/yigal-ozeri/" style="-webkit-transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; vertical-align: baseline;">Yigal Ozeri</a>, <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/david-parrish/" style="-webkit-transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; vertical-align: baseline;">David Parrish</a>, <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/elizabeth-patterson/" style="-webkit-transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; 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text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; vertical-align: baseline;">David Pfannerstill</a>, <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/john-salt/" style="-webkit-transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; vertical-align: baseline;">John Salt</a>, and <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/ben-schonzeit/" style="-webkit-transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.25s, color 0.25s; vertical-align: baseline;">Ben Schonzeit</a>.
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JONATHAN NOVAK CONTEMPORARY ART | LOS ANGELEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00494102020345565960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557311522697052911.post-90152461339133333992014-04-15T16:41:00.001-07:002014-04-15T16:42:03.791-07:00DAVID HOCKNEY PAINTING / "UNTITLED (BACKYARD ECHO PARK III)"<br />
David Hockney (born 1937) is one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. A painter, printmaker, photographer, and stage designer, Hockney has had a growing impact since his emergence from the British Pop Art movement in the 1960s. His work tests the boundaries of Modernism by shifting between abstraction and realism--often within a single piece.<br />
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Hockney's mastery of color and supremely balanced compositions respond to the light and landscape of Southern California, where he has lived and worked extensively since the 1960s. Hockney's body of work suggests extensive travel and a sustained concern for his native Northern England. His complex oeuvre demonstrates his command of a wide range of media and styles, not for their own sake but always to further his pictorial dexterity. </div>
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Hockney has had an amazingly prolific and successful career as an artist, and he continues to create and exhibit at major international venues. He recently began to incorporate digital artwork into his ever-expanding repertoire of media and styles.</div>
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One of his wonderful artworks will be on display through this Friday, April 18, as part of the exhibition <i>Color. Untitled (Backyard Echo Park III)</i> from 1983 so perfectly illustrates the use of color and free form that Hockney has expertly utilized throughout his career.</div>
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For more information about the artist or this painting, please see the <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/david-hockney/">David Hockney artist page</a>.<br />
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JONATHAN NOVAK CONTEMPORARY ART | LOS ANGELEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00494102020345565960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557311522697052911.post-51123168529979069002014-04-11T17:25:00.003-07:002014-04-11T17:30:49.318-07:00JULIAN OPIE SELF PORTRAIT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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Throughout art history, the self portrait has been a complex subject. A challenging feat for many artists, the art form is one of the most personal and intentional methods of self expression.<br />
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Julian Opie's self portrait entitled <i>Julian</i> is on display as part of current exhibition, <i>Color. </i>The portrait is distilled into Julian Opie's signature style, described by clean, simple lines, and deliberate blocks of contrasting color.</div>
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Opie was born in 1958 in England. He received his education from Goldsmith's school of Art in 1982. His work spans that of multiple disciplines. He is perhaps most well-known for his process of digital manipulation, through which he distills photographs of chosen subject matter, reducing the content to its purest and most essential form. Although his process is reductive, the portraits are imbued with a wide range of emotion from aloof coldness to psychologically penetrating glances --all within a narrow economy of pictorial means. Blurring the lines between illustration, environmental design, and fine art, Opie has managed to further refine and update the visual clarity and bold impact of 1960s Pop Art. </div>
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Opie's work is held in important collections including those at: The Tate Gallery, London; The National Museum of Art in Osaka, Japan; and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.</div>
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This work will be on display through April 18, 2014. </div>
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What thoughts or feelings come to mind as his self portrait stares back at you?<br />
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Julian Opie / "Julian" / 2013 / Archival inkjet laminated to glass and back with dibond presented in a powder coated aluminum frame designed by the artist / Edition of 35</div>
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For more information about the artist or this work, please visit the <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/julian-opie/">Julian Opie artist page</a>.</div>
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JONATHAN NOVAK CONTEMPORARY ART | LOS ANGELEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00494102020345565960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557311522697052911.post-20004225942051391822014-04-10T17:38:00.000-07:002014-04-11T17:28:49.259-07:00TOM WESSELMANN SCULPTURE / "HOUSE AND BARN IN THE DISTANCE"<div>
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Tom Wesselmann sculpture, <i>House and Barn in the Distance, </i>is one of many beautiful works in our current exhibition, <i>Color.</i><br />
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The sculpture was completed in 1994 and was designed utilizing layers of cut-out aluminum, finished with oil paint. </div>
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Tom Wesselmann, who passed away in 2004, made pivotal contributions to the American Pop Art movement. Distinguished for colorful paintings, sculpture, prints, and drawings that depict nudes, everyday objects and avant-garde abstractions, Wesselmann's graceful line, tight formal compositions and highly polished style are instantly recognizable and visually enticing.</div>
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Wesselmann's works are held in major national and international collections including: the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Louisiana Museum, Humblebaek, Denmark; and the Tokyo Central Museum, Japan.</div>
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We are excited to present to you, <i>House and Barn in the Distance:</i> a distinguished an important part of our current exhibition.</div>
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For more information about the artist, visit our the <a href="http://novakart.com/artists/tom-wesselmann/">Tom Wesselmann artist page</a>.<br />
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To see other works in the show, please visit our <a href="http://novakart.com/color-exhibition/">"Color" Exhibition page</a>, closing on April 18, 2014.<br />
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Tom Wesselmann / "House and Barn in the Distance" / 1991/1994 / Oil on cut-out aluminum</div>
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