Shingo Francis

Abstract Color Field Gradient Painting California Minimalism Shingo Francis

1999

Francis, Shingo (Japanese/American, born 1969), W3 , 1999 Encaustic and watercolor painting on Arches paper, 23.5 x 22.5 inches, Hand signed and dated verso Provenance: Garner T...

Eric Orr, (American 1939-1998) In Barcelona, 1989, Color lithograph, hand signed in pencil and numbered from edition of 75 sheet 30 x 22", Published by Poligrafia Eric Orr (1939–1...

"Voices XII" Aquatint Etching • Monoprint Image: 12”x 14” • Paper: 30”x 22” • 2001 Hand signed and numbered 1/1 on BFK Rives paper. Joe Novak (1930-2019) California Contemporary Minimalist. His work is about the exploration of color and light through abstraction, with tonal gradations that infuse them with a meditative quality. During the eighties and nineties, he painted large monochromatic color field canvases with tonal gradations and soft edges that infuse them with a meditative quality and a sense of movement. When illuminated they become glowing surfaces of color and light. His artistic background and work link him closely with the first generation abstract expressionists of the New York School. Major influences include Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, and his mentors, Peter Busa and Esteban Vicente, whom he met and befriended during the eighties while living and painting in East Hampton. During the nineties, while living and working in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Novak initiated a project called "Light Emanations", in which he created digital computerized programs of changing light levels and configurations on a selection of his large paintings, dramatically illustrating the effect of light changes on color perception. Novak's body of work is extensive and include painting on canvas, panel and paper as well as monotypes, drawings, assemblages, mixed media and prints. He has often worked in series, focusing on a particular medium for years. Among these are "Meditations" (color pencil drawings), "Voices" and "Voices 2" (color aquatint etchings), "Echoes" (painting assemblage with minerals) and "Colors" (350 miniature panel paintings). In recent years his paintings have become more gestural, often with musical allusions. His work bears a relationship to the Light & Space Movement and Minimalism artists James Turrell, Larry Bell, Craig Kauffman, Billy Al Bengston, Peter Alexander, Laddie John Dill, Lita Albuquerque. these are also anticipative of the aquatint etching works by Anish Kapoor. Color Gradient, Abstract Art, Land Art. During the eighties and nineties, he painted large monochromatic color field canvases with tonal gradations and soft edges that infuse them with a meditative quality and a sense of movement. When illuminated they become glowing surfaces of color and light. Critic Christopher Knight wrote, Novak is an unabashed Color Field painter. His paintings and aquatints at Bert Green Fine Arts — the Santa Fe artist's third show there — feature works that will call to mind abstractions as diverse as those by Helen Frankenthaler, Mark Rothko and Morris Louis and the landscape abstractions of Joe Goode. Novak's work is in many public and private collections, including numerous museum collections. He spent his last years living in Palm Springs. Selected Group Exhibitions Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago, Illinois "Joe Novak/Huck Lewis-Bennett: A Collaboration", Stephen Archdeacon Gallery, Palm Springs Melissa Morgan Fine Art...

Textured oil on canvas Hand signed verso 20 x 16 inches Jae Hahn is a Korean-born artist living in Los Angeles. Known for abstraction and minimalism. She graduated with a Bachelors of Arts degree majoring in painting at UCLA in 1977. She spent her first 20 formative years in Korea, and the following 30 years in Los Angeles. Hahn’s search to find her own identity and cultural heritage resulted in studying Oriental philosophy, but more specifically, Taoism and Zen Buddhism. She later focused on figure painting, consolidating what she learned from all schools of masters. The first was about structure from cubism. Next were the dynamic color studies of Henri Matisse, and third, the freedom of spontaneous gestural strokes found in Abstract Expressionism. During the late 1990’s, Hahn experienced her own Renaissance. Her paintings took on a new life, with more activity and interlocking positive and negative space, and varying textures (“folding”) and irregular shapes. This resulted in the Unfoldings series, which encompasses Hahn’s artistic attributes of color and form, surface layered depth of field, sculpture, geometry and structure. Jae's paintings are painted in varied tones of a single colour, and usually appear in the form of diptych, triptych or polyptych. The contents are patterns formed by lines such as a triangle, a diagonal, a cross or simply a horizontal line. Simplicity is indeed a quality that the artist intends to convey through her art. Following in the tradition of Donald Judd, John McCracken, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin and Robert Morris, Her work tends towards a luminous minimalist style. She has showed at Kelley Roy gallery alongside John Henry, Dolly Moreno and Sebastian Spreng. She has also shown at Seth Jason Beitler Gallery in Miami. Selected Individual Exhibitions Millenia Fine Arts, Orlando, FL Lois Neiter Fine Arts, Sherman Oaks, CA Gallery Seohwa, Seoul, Korea Rule Modern and Contemporary Gallery, Denver, CO Lois Neiter Fine Arts, Malibu Beach, CA Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA T. Curtsnoc Fine Arts, Miami, FL Rule Modern and Contemporary Gallery, Denver, CO University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming T. Curtsnoc Fine Arts, Miami, FL Boritzer/Gray/Hamano Gallery, Santa Monica, CA The Seoul Club Exhibition, Seoul, Korea Claremont Graduate School - West Gallery, Claremont, CA Byucksan Museum, Seoul, Korea Boritzer/Gray Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Indeco Gallery, Seoul, Korea Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale, CA Selected Group Exhibitions "Zen Summer”, Thomas Lavin, West Hollywood, CA The Fall Show, Susan Street Fine Art, Solana Beach, CA "Faces and Figures", Lois Neiter Fine Arts, Malibu, CA Jae Hahn, Kathleen Keifer, Caroyl Labarge, Maggie Lowe Tennessen Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Las Angeles, CA "Surface, Color, Light", Lois Neiter Fine Arts, Sherman Oaks, CA Miami Art Fair, T. Curtsnoc Fine Arts, Miami, FL London Art Fair 2002, Mark Jason Gallery, London, England "Abstractly", Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA "Spring", LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM "Contemporary Art Without A Mouse", LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM "California Asian Women In Art", Fresh Paint Art, Culver City, CA "Summer Exhibition", Gallery Seohwa, Seoul, Korea "Update 2000", Fresh Paint Art, Culver City, CA Pasadena Historical Architecture Showcase, Pasadena, CA "Korean Contemporary Art," University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming Five Persons' Show, Cline LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM "Korean Contemporary Art," Edwin Ulrich Art Museum, Wichita, Kan "Fall Exhibit" Lois Neiter Fine Arts, Sherman Oaks, CA "Paradise Lost-Abstraction after Modernism" Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA "Summer Exhibit" J.J. Brookings Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Korean Contemporary Art" The Cerrillos Cultural Center, Cerrillos, NM. "Essence in Purity" The Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA. "Collector's Choice" Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL "Of Paint and Metal", Ken Elias Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL "Boom," T. Curtsnoc Fine Arts, Miami, FL "New Beginnings Old Friends," Fresh Paint Fine Arts, Culver City, CA Triton Contemporary Art Fair, San Francisco, CA Cerrillos Cultural Center, Cerrillos, NM "Inauguration Opening Exhibition", View gallery, New York, NY "Abstraction and Essence", Susan Street Fine Art Gallery, Solana Beach "Simply Small", Susan Street Fine Art Gallery, Solana Beach, CA "Idea House" Project, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA Works on Paper L.A. 1995 Art Fair, Santa Monica, CA USART, Ft. Mason, San Francisco, CA The 9th International Contemporary Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA "Big Littles", Boritzer/Gray/Hamano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Jae H. Hahn and Julia N. Chu, Pierce College Art Gallery, Woodland Hills, CA The 7th International Contemporary Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA Neo-Modernism by Five American Artists, Markant Gallery, Langelo, Holland Summer Group Show, Janus Gallery...

These daily drawings are a meditation on the moment as a process to make space for the current pandemic on a personal and collective experience.

These daily drawings are a meditation on the moment as a process to make space for the current pandemic on a personal and collective experience.

Artwork made with pigment (Iwaenogu), glue & water on cotton paper (Washi) marouflaged on Japanese wooden panel Fusako Ekuni is a Japanese artis...

Artwork made with pigment (Iwaenogu), glue & water on cotton paper (Washi) marouflaged on Japanese wooden panel Fusako Ekuni is a Japanese artist born in...