About our Gallery - Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art

Since 1978, Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art has been an important source for Post-War and Contemporary American and European art. 

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. 

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.

Pictured: Jim Dine and Niki de Saint Phalle

Pictured: Ben Schonzeit

Pictured: Sam Francis, Robert Motherwell, Jim Dine

Pictured: Julian Opie

Pictured: Kikuo Saito

Palm Springs Fine Art Fair 2016

We had a wonderful experience at the Palm Springs Fine Art Fair 2016. 

Exhibited were works by  Tim Bavington, Luigi Benedicenti, Robert Cottingham, Jim Dine, Sam Francis, Ralph Goings, Howard Hodgkin, Paul Jenkins, Anish Kapoor, Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Bertrand Meniel, Robert Motherwell, David Parrish, James Rosenquist, John Salt, Ben Schonzeit, and Wayne Thiebaud.

We are delighted to share these photos of our booth #308.

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COLOR

MARCH 2 – APRIL 11, 2014

Color became the hallmark of painting in the 1960s when a succession of movements—ranging from Color Field to Pop—marked the triumph of American art as an international phenomenon.  Pop Art took the vibrant, garish color of advertising and turned it into a positive creative statement.  At the same time, abstract painters began to explore color’s sensual and emotional impact as a visceral experience.  Since this exciting era, artists have continued to use and work with color as an expression of passion, beauty, and unbridled excitement.

Color surveys Post-War contemporary American and European works by well-known Abstract Expressionists, Pop artists, and Photorealists including: Sam Francis, Paul Jenkins, Robert Motherwell, Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Tim Bavington, David Hockney, Tom Wesselmann, Jim Dine, Julian Opie, Niki de Saint Phalle, Ben Schonzeit, Robert Gniewek, and David Parrish.  These artists communicate through the fundamental language of color. While their works delight the eye, they also possess a resonance based on the deep emotional impact of pure pigment.

Color will be on view through April 11, 2014.

Paul Jenkins

L to R: Jim Dine and Tom Wesselmann

Top: Sam Francis, Bottom: David Gilhooly

Ben Schonzeit

Niki de Saint Phalle

L to R: Julan Opie, Robert Motherwell, Frank Stella

L to R: Howard Hodgkin and Tim Bavington

Tim Bavington

Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art Website

Color Exhibition

SAM FRANCIS / THE LAST WORKS

THE PAINTER SAM FRANCIS / A FILM BY JEFFREY PERKINS

Forty years in the making, ‘The Painter Sam Francis’ is artist Jeffrey Perkins’ lyrical and intimate portrait of a friend, mentor, and leading light of American abstract art. The film retraces Francis’ life and career from his childhood in California to his artistic maturation in post-war Paris, his time spent in Japan, and his return to the United States. Hinging on an interview that Perkins conducted with Francis in 1973, as well as extended scenes of the artist at work in the studio, the film provides deep insight into a man for whom creativity was a powerful life-sustaining force. Interviews with friends, family, and fellow artists - including Ed Ruscha, James Turrell, Bruce Conner, Alfred Leslie, and others - illuminate a mysterious and complex personality, and its reflection in a body of work that is simultaneously diverse and singular. For Francis, art was a path to transcendence; for Perkins, Francis was art. ‘The Painter Sam Francis’ is a labor of love, a moving portrait of a man, and a tribute to the power of art.

The Official Website for the film