A selection of Robert Graham’s “Early Work 1963-1973″ at David Zwirner in New York

NEW YORK, N.Y.- David Zwirner presents a selection of early work by Los Angeles artist Robert Graham (1938-2008), on view at 519 West 19th Street. The exhibition brings together rarely seen works that span the years 1963-1973, providing an overview and reconsideration of the artist’s initial engagement with Minimalism and figurative sculpture. In the early 1960s, while he was still attending the San Francisco Art Institute, Graham made miniature objects during idle moments as a Woolworth’s counter-salesman. Although the prevailing attitude of [...]

Surrealist masterwork by Ed Ruscha, Strange Catch for a Fresh Water Fish, to be offered at Christie’s

NEW YORK, N.Y.- An important Surrealist-inspired painting by Ed Ruscha is among the many highlights to be offered in Christie’s sale of Post War and Contemporary Art at Rockefeller Center on November 8. Strange Catch for a Fresh Water Fish, painted in 1965, is estimated to fetch $3 to $4 million. Strange Catch for a Fresh Water Fish is a key work in a series of paintings Ruscha executed in the mid-1960s, in which his imagery calls to mind film noir or the [...]

Hot Los Angeles painter of the moment Alex Schaefer’s bank on fire work heats up art world

LOS ANGELES, CA. (AP).- Alex Schaefer is the hot Los Angeles artist of the moment, thanks to a couple of oil-on-canvas works showing banks burning down. Although his work has been displayed at several galleries over the years, Schaefer was mostly an obscure figure in the art world whose pieces rarely fetched more than $1,000. That was until he painted a picture of a nondescript bank on a run-of-the-mill San Fernando Valley street. With flames leaping through the bank’s roof, the [...]

Boston’s ICA Opens The Record, First Museum Show to Explore Influence of Vinyl on Visual Art

BOSTON, MA.- This spring, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston opens The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, the first museum exhibition to explore the culture of vinyl records within the history of contemporary art. Bringing together artists from around the world who have worked with records as their subject or medium, this groundbreaking exhibition examines the record’s transformative power from the 1960s to the present. Through sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, photography, sound work, video and performance, The Record combines contemporary art with [...]

Images Inspired by Ed Ruscha’s Admitted Love of Driving at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

FORT WORTH, TX.- Since Ruscha’s first road trip from Oklahoma City to Los Angeles in 1956, the artist has continued to engage the images he has encountered along the roads of the western United States. Consisting of approximately 75 works, spanning the artist’s entire career, Ed Ruscha: Road Tested tracks key images inspired by his admitted love of driving. The exhibition is on view until April 17, 2011 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. “I like being in the [...]

Cassatt, Picasso and Munch Highlighting Christie’s October Prints & Multiples Sale

NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s presents the Prints & Multiples Sale taking place October 26-27, 2010. The two day sale features 454 lots and is expected to realize in excess of $9 million. Works included in the sale span the 19th through the 21st century, with a large portion devoted to the Post-War and Contemporary categories. This exciting selection of prints and multiples showcases works by Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, and Ed Ruscha [...]

Ron Terada: Who I Think I Am at The Hayward Gallery Project Space

LONDON.- This autumn, the Hayward Gallery Project Space presents an exhibition of work by Canadian artist, Ron Terada. Terada is a well known figure in his home country with a wide ranging conceptual practice that includes painting, signage, photography, interventions, books and music. His work often draws from past art historical figures and popular culture to evoke nostalgic and sometimes familiar narratives while ruminating on aspiration and failure. This exhibition is the first solo exhibition of Terada’s work in London. [...]

New Exhibition of Paintings by Deborah Kass at Paul Kasmin Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery and Vincent Fremont present a new exhibition of paintings by Deborah Kass entitled “MORE feel good paintings for feel bad times.” This is Kass’s second show at the gallery and will be on view at 293 Tenth Avenue from September 23 through October 30, 2010. Expanding the ideas of her exhibition in the fall of 2007, Kass continues to mine the fields of post war painting, language, and music to explore the intersection of [...]

Sotheby’s to Sell Group of Exceptional Paintings from the Collection of Supermodel Jerry Hall

LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced that it will offer for sale a group of 14 outstanding and revealing Contemporary artworks from the Collection of Jerry Hall, the world-famous American supermodel and actress, in its forthcoming October 2010 Contemporary Art sales, which coincide with London’s Frieze Art Fair. The artworks, together estimated to realise in excess of £1.5 million, will be offered in Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction on Friday, 15 October and Contemporary Art Day Auction on Saturday, 16 October. This exceptional [...]

Ed Ruscha’s Apartments, Parking Lots, Palm Trees and Others at Sprüth Magers

BERLIN.- Sprüth Magers present an exhibition of work by Ed Ruscha in Berlin, featuring early photographs, drawings as well as two filmic works. Since the early 1960s, Ed Ruscha has created an extensive painterly, graphical, and photographic oeuvre. Ruscha first considered working as a graphic artist but soon developed a deep passion for painting and photography. Inspired by the American photography of the 1940s and 1950s, Ruscha developed an independent conceptual approach which is manifested in the sixteen photo-books, created [...]

First Comprehensive U.S. Museum Survey of Dennis Hopper Opens at MOCA

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), presents Dennis Hopper Double Standard, the first comprehensive survey exhibition of Dennis Hopper’s artistic career to be mounted by a North American museum, July 11 through September 26, 2010, at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Best known for his work in film, Hopper produced an oeuvre of remarkable breadth that blurs the boundaries between art, film, and popular culture. The exhibition will trace the evolution of Hopper’s artistic output [...]

Moderna Museet Presents Paintings from the Last Five Decades by Ed Ruscha

STOCKHOLM.- Ed Ruscha, born in 1937, is an icon of modern art and exceedingly prolific to this day. His paintings are ambiguous and provocative, recycling scraps from popular culture and redefining established genres. Is he one of the first pop artists, a trail-blazer of conceptual art, a late surrealist, a pioneer of postmodernism, or a bit of everything, all rolled into one? Ed Ruscha started out in graphic design, photography and film-making; ever since he left the Midwest for California, [...]

Artwork from the Collection of Henry T. Hopkins on the Auction Block in May

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bonhams & Butterfields will present contemporary art from California artists during the Made in California sale on May 3, 2010. Artwork by internationally known artists such as Ruth Asawa, Joan Brown, Gordon Onslow Ford, Sam Francis, Robert Graham, Manuel Neri, Nathan Oliveira, David Park, Edward Ruscha, Wayne Thiebaud and Peter Voulkos will be offered. The oldest and largest auction house of the West Coast, Bonhams & Butterfields continues to achieve exceptional prices for California art. “The influence [...]

Overview of Ed Ruscha’s Paintings from the Last Five Decades at Haus der Kunst in Munich

MUNICH.- The exhibition provides a comprehensive overview of Ruscha’s paintings from the last five decades. The focus the selection of works share is the constants in Ruscha’s artistic endeavors: the attention he pays to words and word-paintings. Also apparent is his analytical approach to painting, which, time and again, results in a revision of his formal methods. And finally, by omitting additional artistic forms of expressions that Ed Ruscha also employs, the exhibition demonstrates how his experience with drawing, photograph [...]

Gagosian Presents Major Group Exhibition Celebrating JG Ballard’s “Crash”

LONDON.- Gagosian Gallery London will present “Crash,” a major group exhibition opening on 11 February 2010, which takes its title from the famous novel by JG Ballard. Ballard’s novels stand among the most visionary, provocative literature of the twentieth century, with his ominous predictions regarding the fate of Western culture and his insights into the dark psychopathology of the human race. This exhibition is a response to the enormous impact and enduring cultural significance of his work, following his death [...]

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