Roy De Forest: Selected Works
Brian Gross Fine Art is pleased to announce Roy De Forest: Selected Works, a focus exhibition highlighting works by this renowned Bay Area artist, opening Thursday, July 15, 2021. Featuring an early painting, a rare construction from the 1960s, and works on paper, the exhibition highlights important early works by Roy De Forest (1930-2007) as well as the brightly colored, folk-like landscapes with figures and animals for which he is famous. The exhibition will be on view through August 28, 2021.
Recognized as one of the most original painters of his generation, Roy De Forest s unique and beloved viewpoint can be seen in the selection of works in the exhibit. The Giant Dog s Dilemma (1970) is a significant painting marking De Forest s transition from his abstracted aerial landscape paintings of the 1960s to the celebrated pictorial landscapes of his mature work. In it we see a silhouetted figure inside of a log cabin looking out at a giant dog holdin
Karen Carson s first solo show at Gavlak Los Angeles explores her expansive five-decade career
Karen Carson, Untitled #20, 2018.
LOS ANGELES, CA
.-GAVLAK Los Angeles is presenting Karen Carson: Middle Ground, the artists first solo exhibition with the gallery running from January 9 through March 6, 2021. Centered around her current bas relief works and her early zipper series, both bodies of work deploy geometric configurations to explore the convergence of gender, nature and the material world. The exhibitions title refers to the interplay between these two series; both operate as key historical markers that speak to Carsons artistic importance for the past five decades, creating work with an expansive visual language that has engaged contemporary issues and political culture in myriad ways.