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Mercedes Matter née Carles (1913 – December 2001) was an American painter and draughtswoman. Her father was the American modernist painter Arthur Beecher Carles who had studied with Henri Matisse. Her mother, Mercedes de Cordoba, was a model for Edward Steichen. Matter grew up in Philadelphia, New York and Europe. She first painted under her father's supervision at age 6 and would later recall being given a paintbox to use while working alongside him in the French countryside. At the age of 12, she returned to Europe and lived in Italy for over 2 years. She would later recount that her time in Italy—including Venice, Assisi, Rome, and Florence—was formative and her primary education in art history. Subsequent studies included at Bennett College in Millbrook, NY with sculptor Lu Duble, and in New York City with Maurice Sterne, Alexander Archipenko and Hans Hofmann. In the late 1930s, Matter was an original member of the American Abstract Artists. She also worked for the Works Progress Administration. She worked with Fernand Léger, who would become a close friend, on his mural for the French Line passenger ship company and again privately on another mural. Léger introduced her to Herbert Matter, the Swiss graphic designer and photographer whom she married in 1939. He also resided with the couple for a year sharing their studio and apartment. The Matters were active in the emerging mid-century New York art scene, and contact with other artists was important to them. Close friends included Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, Alexander Calder and Willem de Kooning. In 1943, the Matters moved to California. Matter was raising an infant son but the environment away from New York was affecting her work. She returned to New York in 1946. Beginning in 1953, Matter taught at the Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts) for 10 years, and then at the Pratt Institute for 10 years. She later taught at New York University for several years. She was a visiting critic at Antioch, Brandeis, Cincinnati School of Art, Kansas City Art Institute, Maryland Institute College of Art, Yale University, Skowhegan and American University in Washington, DC.. In 1964, she founded the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture. A year earlier, she wrote an article for ARTnews titled What's Wrong with U.S. Art Schools? in which she criticised the phasing out of extended studio classes which served "that painfully slow education of the senses," which she considered essential. The article prompted a group of Pratt students, as well as some from Philadelphia, to ask Matter to form a school based on her ideas. The school was originally housed in a loft on Broadway and gained almost immediate support from the Kaplan Fund, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III and the Ford Foundation. It granted no degrees, had only studio classes and emphasized drawing from life. Early teachers, chosen by the students, included the artists Philip Guston, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Charles Cajori, Louis Finkelstein...

Giuliani in the Blue Room. He bought his first camera at the 1939 World's Fair for 39 cents, but he did not start taking photographs as a vocation until he was a paratrooper in occup...

Malcolm Lubliner was in the right place at the right time. The artist had been working and teaching in Southern California for a number of years before he became a full-time photographer in 1968. Entrenched in Los Angeles’s burgeoning art scene, Lubliner was hired as a contract photographer for the publishing workshop Gemini G.E.L. to document its behind-the-scenes activities. He would later become the official photographer for the Art and Technology Program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), which paired artists with technology companies in the region. Lubliner’s collection of negatives, contact sheets, and prints—newly catalogued as part of the special collections at the Getty Research Institute—showcases some of the 20th century’s most notable artists and demonstrates his insight into their artistic processes. Lubliner photographed the technical and collaborative efforts that went into producing iconic works such as Jasper Johns’s Numerals, Claes Oldenburg’s Giant Ice Bag, and Frank Stella’s Protractor series, while also creating intimate portraits of the individual artists as the driving forces behind them. He captured artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Irwin, Richard Serra, John Altoon, and Sam Francis at work both at Gemini and in their own studios. Also present in many of the photographs are staff members of Gemini, including Kenneth Tyler and Stanley Grinstein. An equally important part of the collection are Lubliner’s photographs of social events that were held by Los Angeles’s prominent art collectors and dealers. Accomplished and rising artists alike mingled and celebrated with the art world’s movers and shakers, such as Leo Castelli, Betty Asher, and Maurice Tuchman, establishing partnerships that would help define their careers. EDUCATION 1962 MFA Degree, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, Ca Received a California State Teaching Credential EXHIBITION HISTORY, SOLO 2013 The Automotive Landscape, St. Mary’s College Art Gallery, Moraga, CA 2011 Anxious Landscape, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA. 2011 Pacific Party Time, Craig Krull Gallery and Getty Foundation, Los Angeles, CA 2010 Garden of Arbitrary Volition, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2008 Tableaus, City Hall Rotunda, Walnut Creek, CA 2007 Portraits of American Artists, The 8 Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2003 Significant Places, Fresno Museum of Art, Fresno, CA 2003 Significant Places, Bedford Gallery, City Council Chambers, Walnut Creek, CA 2001 Significant Places, Point of View, College of Marin, Kentfield, CA 2001 Osceola Gallery Emeryville, CA 1999 Sixteen Tableaus, Berlex Corporation. The Richmond Art Museum 1995 Sixteen Tableaus, The Collectors Gallery, Oakland Museum of California Oakland, CA 1995 Sixteen Tableaus, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa 1988 Introductions 1988, Vision Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1988 Mitzie Landau Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA 1975 Automotive Research, The Comsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA EXHIBITION HISTORY, GROUP 2014 Pilot Project at the Richmond Art Center Annual Members Show, June 14 to August 22 2013 Me Two, Self portrait, Syracuse University permanent collection, Syracuse, NY 2009 Seduction of Duchamp, Slaughterhouse Space, Healdsburg, CA 2009 Glimpses in Time, National Competition, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland CA 2009 Anxious Landscape, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2008 Banned and Recovered, African American Museum, Oakland, CA 2006 The 8 Gallery, Inaugural exhibition, San Francisco, CA 2006 Rush Creek Editions Gallery, Inaugural exhibition, Santa Fe, NM 2006 Transmissions Gallery, Berkeley CA 2005 The Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Center, Walnut Creek, CA 2003 Grabado sin Fronteras, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA , Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA and Estamperia of Quito Ecuador. 2002 Crocker Art Museum, Crocker-Kingsley 73rd Biennial Exhibition Sacramento,CA 1997 Oakland Museum of California, “In Front of the Lens” Photographers Portraits and Self Portraits, Oakland, CA 1996 Photographing The L.A. Art Scene 1955-1975, Group exhibition at The Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles 1994 Living in Balance, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA 1993 36th Annual Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua, N.Y. 1993 Third Annual Juried Exhibition, Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center, East Hills, N.Y. 1993 4th Annual Art Equinox, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, Montana. 1993 Portraits in Black and White, ZYZZYVA benefit, Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1993 Long Beach Arts 89th Open Exhibition, Long Beach, CA 1993 Fort Worth Arts Festival, Fort Worth, TX 1989 A Special Photographers Co., Group Exhibition, London, GB 1988 The Print Club, 64th Annual International Competition, Philadelphia, PA 1985 SNAP Photographic Competition, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery San Francisco, CA 1981 L.A. As Seen By L.A. Artists, Invitational Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1981 Architecture de Tour, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France 1967 California Dreamin’, Los Angeles County Museum, Barnsdall Park. Los Angeles, CA 1980 Otis Art Institute Alumni Invitational, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA 1971 Art and Technology, Photographic documentation of the U.S. Arts entry at the Osaka Worlds Fair, sponsored by The Los Angeles County Museum of Art AWARDS AND GRANTS 2006 Vallejo Artist’s Guild, Vallejo, CA – First and second cash prizes 1997 Miranda Leonard Purchase Grant, Gift of four photographs to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 1994 California Exposition & State Fair, AWARD, Sacramento, CA 1975 Ohio Silver Gallery National Open Exhibition, PURCHASE AWARD, Ohio Silver Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1962 All City Competition, AWARD, LA County Museum of Art, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS The Lafayette Library and Learning Center, Lafayette, CA. The National Portrait Gallery, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA The Bancroft Library, Berkeley, CA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco Arts Commission Oakland Museum of California The Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Fresno Museum of Art The California Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA. David Packard...

Ivan Karp Sherman Drexler Ivan C. Karp (June 4, 1926 – June 28, 2012) was an American art dealer, gallerist and author instrumental in the emergence of pop art in the 1960s. Karp ...

Margherita Boniver  is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s. Good conditions.

Dori Ghezzi is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s. Good conditions.

Margherita Boniver is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s. Stamped on the rear. Good conditions.

Margherita Boniver  is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s. Good conditions.