Don Giffin

Don Giffin Finish Fetish Abstract Alkyd Pigment Painting Los Angeles, California

1999

Don Giffin (American, 1948-2003) Skin Deep, 2001 Mixed media on canvas Hand signed Don Giffin, titled and dated (verso) 68 x 53 inches. Provenance: from the Art Collection of the InterContinental Buckhead Atlanta Framed dimensions: 74 1/4 x 59 inches. Don Giffin, Born in Chicago in 1948, Giffin earned his bachelor’s and master’s degree at what is now Cal State Northridge. An abstract painter who expanded the Southern California modes of “color and light” and “finish fetish” art, melding impressions of photography, printmaking and painting into a single work. Giffin, a master printmaker as well as a painter. In 1995 he mounted the first of his five solo exhibitions at the Christopher Grimes Gallery in Santa Monica. David Pagel described the artist’s work in a Los Angeles Times review as perfectly smooth, glass-like surfaces when viewed from afar that seemed to decay as one approached. They make pain palpable and evoke mortality’s inevitability, Pagel wrote of Giffin’s creations, which used layers of paint, gesso and tar that he pulled apart as they dried. “His corporeal abstractions bypass your mind to hit you in the stomach.” Giffin was one of 10 Los Angeles, California artists whose work was featured in the 1997 Biennial of the Orange County Museum of Art. (including Robert Blanchon, Jessica Bronson, Julia Couzens, Terri Friedman, Don Giffin, Dennis Hollingsworth, Carlos Mollura, Carter Potter, Monique Prieto, and Chris Wilder.) In reviewing that exhibition for The Times, Cathy Curtis wrote: Don Giffin reinvents stain painting by layering color in such a way that it emits an inner radiance verging on iridescence. The artist continued to push boundaries, and when he displayed his 6 X 5-foot acrylics at the Grimes Gallery in 2000, Pagel described them as mesmerizing works. The cross-fertilization between painting and photography that has been cropping up in some of the most intriguing works being made today takes breathless shape in Don Giffin’s physically resplendent paintings,” the critic wrote. “When I work,” he once said, “it’s like I’m doing a dance with the painting, and I’m not always leading. When the imagery is mysterious, the surface is perfectly smooth and the color contrast is just right with that glow of pale color coming through it’s sheer delight. Finish Fetish denotes a style of art related to the LA Look, pop art, minimalism, and light and space originating in southern California in the 1960s. Artwork of this type often has a glossy and slick finish and features an abstract design on a two-or three-dimensional surface made from fiberglass or resins. The style is similar to the simplicity and abstraction of minimalism and the bright colors and reference to commercial products found in pop art. To the world of postwar art it was a substantive addition. Artists included Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, Judy Chicago, Joe Goode, Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman, John McCracken, Kenneth Price, DeWain Valentine...

"First Rain at San Miguel de Allende", mixed media, acrylic and collage on canvas, signed lower left, titled, signed and dated 1984 verso, depicting a verdant tropical landscape with a pool with koi fish, in a n abstracted view with in an oak bullnose frame with burlap mat and gold liner, frame size: 53" x 37", canvas size: 48" x 32". Leonard Brooks...

Title: (Baseball) Mits 25.5" W x 25.5" H x 2.25" framed; canvas measures 24" W x 24" H. Provenance: The Rails Collection, Washington, DC (with their label verso) This depicts floating baseball gloves inn an abstract pattern. This is not signed on the front and might be signed verso. We have not examined out of frame. Patrick LoCicero was born in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1959. He attended Youngstown State University, Ohio, and the Columbus College of Art and Design. He completed a B.F.A. at Ohio State University in 1982 and an M.F.A. at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1986. His paintings, installations, prints, and multimedia work have been shown in California, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. LoCicero's richly layered imagery is characterized by unusual juxtapositions of everyday objects and classical motifs, which play with the viewer's perception of materials and subjects. LoCicero’s assemblage paintings combine collage with painting. The overlap and collage elements relate directly to the images he depicts, guiding him in his choice of subjects, and come from a variety of sources including the Kama Sutra, antique children’s books...

Prof. Richardson is the Chair of the Department of Art, he received his MFA degree from Washington University in St. Louis, and his BFA degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He joined the faculty at Maryland in 1978 and has maintained a professional focus on abstract painting and contemporary art theory. His work has been featured in 21 solo and over 100 group exhibitions in museums, galleries, and art centers in Washington, DC, New York, NY, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia, Missouri, Ohio, Georgia, Minnesota, Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and internationally in Brussels, Russia, Jordan and Algiers. His work is currently represented by G Fine Art in Washington DC. Past gallery affiliations include Fusebox in Washington DC, and Baumgartner Gallery in DC and NY. Richardson has received numerous grants and awards for his work, including five Maryland State Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowships. Commissioned artwork is permanently installed at Ronald Reagan National Airport and Reston Town Center in Virginia. His work is held in numerous public and corporate collections, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (DC), the Corcoran Gallery of Art (DC), the Ackland Art Center (NC), the U.S. Department of State (Algiers), the District of Columbia Town Hall, Prudential Life (NY), IBM Corporation (DC), Richmond Federal Reserve Bank (VA), Washington Post Corporation (DC), Northrop-Grumman (VA), and Reston Town Center (VA). Richardson’s exhibitions have been reviewed in Art In America, Artforum International, ARTnews, NYArts Magazine, The Art Papers, The New Art Examiner, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun, The Richmond Times Dispatch, The El Paso Times, The Winston-Salem Journal, and The Washington City Paper, among others. Essays and monographs on his work have been published in many exhibition brochures and catalogues. An extensive interview with over 40 reproductions of his work can be found at the online curatorial project geoform. Richardson is an active visiting artist, lecturer, and juror at academic institutions and museums throughout the region and across the country. SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 Resonance. Steven Cushner, W.C. Richardson and Robin Rose...

Dennis Hollingsworth (American, b. 1956) large scale painting, 1994 "Leaf Blower #15", oil & alkyd on canvas over wood panel, Hand signed and dated verso, Dimensions: 72" X 72" Dennis Hollingsworth, Born 1956 in Madrid, Spain he has lived and worked in Los Angeles, California. He currently lives and works in New York City and Tossa De Mar Spain. He attended Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, USA, 1991, B.A. Architecture, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, USA, 1985 Dennis Hollingsworth is a painter whose works combine abstraction with a pop art sensibility. The newer pieces bring to mind other artists whose work also investigates the structure and support, including Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Elizabeth Murray, Ron Gorchov, James Hyde, Rosy Keyser, and Fabian Marcaccio. His first exhibition was Painting Beyond The Idea at Manny Silverman Gallery in Los Angeles, CA in 1995, and the most recent exhibition was TEN at Hionas Gallery in New York City, NY in 2021. Dennis Hollingsworth is most frequently exhibited in United States, but also had exhibitions in Germany, Spain and elsewhere. Hollingsworth has at least 27 solo shows and 67 group shows over the last 26 years. Hollingsworth has also been in no less than 14 art fair. A notable show was Dennis Hollingsworth - Wet On Wet at Blum & Poe in Los Angeles, CA in 1996. He was included in the show “Under Erasure” at Pierogi Gallery curated by Heather and Raphael Rubinstein. Artists included: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mel Bochner, Jane Hammond, Dennis Hollingsworth, Glenn Ligon, Richard Prince, Robert Rauschenberg, Nicole Eisenman and Antoni Tapies. His work was exhibited in 1999 at the Kunsthalle Basel as part of the group show ‘Nach-Bild’, which also featured artists Richard Hamilton and Laura Owens. Other notable shows were at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in New York City, NY and Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. Dennis Hollingsworth has been exhibited with Katharina Grosse and Herbert Brandl. Dennis Hollingsworth’s art is in museum collections, including MOCA Grand Avenue in Los Angeles, CA and Columbus Art Foundation in Ravensburg among others. He is represented by Hionas Gallery, New York, NY 1956, BORN IN MADRID, SPAIN 1985, BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE, CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY 1991, MASTERS OF FINE ARTS, CLAREMONT GRADUATE SCHOOL LIVES AND WORKS IN NEW YORK CITY, USA AND TOSSA DE MAR, SPAIN SOLO EXHIBITIONS: GALERIA MIGUEL MARCOS, BARCELONA, SPAIN GALERIE RICHARD, NYC, USA HIONAS GALLERY, NYC, USA FRONT GALLERY, HOUSTON, TEXAS, USA TOMIO KOYAMA GALLERY (HIKARIE),TOKYO, JAPAN MICHAEL KOHN GALLERY, LOS ANGELES, CA, USA CIRRUS GALLERY, LOS ANGELES, CA, USA GALERIA PELAIRES, PALMA DE MALLORCA, SPAIN NICOLE KLAGSBRUN GALLERY, NEW YORK, NY, USA GALERIA ANA SERRATOSA, VALENCIA, SPAIN GALERIE ANDRÉ BUCHMANN, COLOGNE, GERMANY GALERIE TANYA RUMPFF, HAARLEM, NETHERLANDS GALERIE MARK MULLER, ZURICH SWITZERLAND CHAC MOOL GALLERY, LOS ANGELES, CA, USA BRETT/MITCHELL SHAHEEN GALLERY, CLEVELAND, OH BARBARA FARBER/LA SERRE, TRETS FRANCE THE BOX, TORINO, ITALY STEENDRUKKERIJ AMSTERDAM, M.V., HOLLAND BARBARA FARBER/ROB JURKA GALLERY, AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND LAWING GALLERY, HOUSTON, TX, USA SCHMIDT CONTEMPORARY ART, ST. LOUIS, MI MEYERSON & NOWINSKI GALLERY, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON BLUM POE GALLERY, SANTA MONICA, CA, USA SCARABB GALLERY, CLEVELAND, OH BENNETT ROBERTS FINE ART, LOS ANGELES, CA, USA LEE ARTHUR STUDIO, NEW YORK, NY STUDIO RAID GALLERY, LOS ANGELES, CA, USA GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2020 “OEUVRES CHOISIES”, GALERIE RICHARD, PARIS GALERIE RICHARD, NYC, PARIS Rainer Gross, Dennis Hollingsworth, Kim Young-Hun, Jeremy Thomas. “UNTITLED”, GALERIE RICHARD, NYC, PARIS 2019 “LITTORAL”, MUNICIPAL MUSEUM OF TOSSA DE MAR, TOSSA DE MAR, SPAIN “DIVINE INTERVENTIONS”, CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN SAG HARBOR, LONG ISLAND, USA “ANGLES DE REFLEXIÓ”, GALERIE RICHARD VANDERAA, GIRONA, SPAIN 2018 “UNDER/ERASURE”, PIEROGI GALLERY, NYC, USA “COLOR MATTERS”, GALERIE RICHARD, NYC,USA “EVOLUTION”, GALERIA MIGUEL MARCOS, BARCELONA, SPAIN “WORKS FROM THE GALLERY ARTISTS AND THE COLLECTION 3”, TOMIO KOYAMA GALLERY, TOKYO, JAPAN 2012 “NEXUS”, GALERIA MIGUEL MARCOS, BARCELONA, SPAIN “FOR EXAMPLE PAINTING”, GALERIE MARK MÜLLER, ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND “FRÜHLING”, GALERIE EUGEN LENDL, GRAZ, SWITZERLAND 2011 GROUP SHOW, GALERIE MARK MÜLLER, ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND “ALUSIONES-ILUSIONES”, GALERIA MIGUEL MARCOS, BARCELONA, SPAIN “THE WORKING TITLE”, BRONX ART CENTER, BRONX, NEW YORK, USA “GREATER LA”, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, USA 2010 25TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW, MICHAEL KOHN GALLERY, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA “CRYSTAL WORLD”, ANDRE BUCHMANN GALLERY, BERLIN, GERMANY GROUP SHOW, TOMIO KOYAMA GALLERY, TOKYO, JAPAN PINTURA SIN TREGUA GALERIE MIGUEL MARCOS, BARCELONA, SPAIN GROUP SHOW, TANYA RUMPFF GALLERY, HAARLEM, NETHERLANDS PALM PAINTINGS, ANDRÉ BUCHMANN GALLERY, BERLIN, GERMANY 2007 “QUIRKY”, WESTPORT ART CENTER, WESTPORT, CONNECTICUT “ROOM 3: ACCROCHAGE”, GALERIE MARK MÜLLER, ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND “POP ART 1960’S TO 2000’S”, HIROSHIMA CITY MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, HIROSHIMA, JAPAN An important exhibition from Misumi Art Collection of post-war American art, including Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, David Hockney, Christopher Wool, Vic Muniz...

Alexander Raymond Katz (Hungarian-American, 1895-1974) initialed l.r. "A.R.K." inscribed verso "Prayer Tree", A Raymond Katz." Sight size: 39-3/4"h x 30"w Overall: 40-3/4"h x 30-3/4"w This is done in an Abstract Expressionist style with bold enamel like paint and applied ceramic or glass iridescent mosaic tiles. Alexander Raymond Katz, Hungarian / American (1895 – 1974) Alexander Raymond Katz was born in Kassa, Hungary, and came to the United States in 1909. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In the late 1920s, he worked as a director of the Poster Department at Paramount Studios. He was appointed the Director of Posters for the Chicago Civic Opera in 1930. A WPA muralist, illustrator and modernist painter especially known for paintings with Jewish themes and narrative American scene works. Many notable Jewish artists worked for the WPA amongst them Ben Shahn, William Gropper, Aaron Bohrod and many more. During the Great Depression, notable architect Frank Lloyd Wright urged Katz to become a muralist. In 1933, he was commissioned to paint a mural for the Century of Progress exposition in Chicago. In 1936, he painted the mural History of the Immigrant for the Madison, Ill., post office. Katz’s works were included in various exhibitions and now are part of several museum collections, including those of the Art Institute of Chicago; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Jewish Museum, New York. His murals, bas-reliefs and stained glass designs adorn more than 200 Jewish synagogues in the United States. Katz and other Jewish artists in Chicago who expressed Jewish and Biblical themes were inspired by the artist Abel Pann (1883-1963). Pann, who is regarded as the leading painter of the Land of Israel, exhibited in the Art Institute of Chicago in 1920. Early in his career, Katz began to explore the artistic possibilities inherent in the characters of the Hebrew alphabet. He developed aesthetic and philosophical interpretations of each letter and became the leading innovator and pioneer in the field of Hebraic art. Katz applies this concept in the woodcut Moses and the Burning Bush. Hebrew letters appears in Moses’ head, his cane and inside the flame. The initial of Moses’ name crowns his head. The letter in the flame is the first letter of the name of God. A combination of images and Hebrew letters appeared commonly in illustrations of the scene Moses and the Burning Bush in the Haggadah, the book of Passover. The symbolism of the burning bush corresponds to the motifs of A Gift to Biro-Bidjan. Among the fourteen participating artists were notable Chicago modernists Todros Geller, Mitchell Siporin, A. Raymond Katz, David Bekker...

Contemporary abstract painting. This subdued geometric pattern is made up from individually hand cut paper motifs, covered with layers of paint to create a subtle tone on tone textur...

Seeking the Sound of Cobalt Blue is a series of paintings on large sheets of rag paper that have been created since January of 2014. Using domestic construction materials from her ...

Seeking the Sound of Cobalt Blue is a series of larger paintings on 8 ply museum board and large sheets of rag paper that have been created since the winter of 2016. Using domestic...

Seeking the Sound of Cobalt Blue is a series of larger paintings on 8 ply museum board and large sheets of rag paper that have been created since the winter of 2016. Using domestic...

Seeking the Sound of Cobalt Blue is a series of larger paintings on 8 ply museum board and large sheets of rag paper that have been created since the winter of 2016. Using domestic...

Acrylic on paper mounted on wood panel. Unframed. This artwork comes from a series of divergent strategies. One of building and extending - the other of reducing and minimizing. Th...