A fresh rehanging of Peyton Wright Gallery’s west side showcases works by Margo Hoff, Vance Kirkland, Leon Berkowitz, Art Brenner, Robert Slutzky and others.
Johnnie Winona Ross is an acclaimed American abstract painter known for his minimalist, luminous canvases inspired by the landscape of the American Southwest. Johnnie Winona Ross (b. 1949) Journey/Passage 199164 x 61 inches Acrylic, oil, rust/canvas signed and dated verso Exhibition History:R.H. Love Contemporary, Chicago, Illinois, March – April 1992 (solo exhibition) Ross was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1949. He ...
“Ultimately I’m using the painting as a sounding board for the spirit. . . . You can be painting and go into a place where thought stops—where you can just be and it just comes out. . . . I present it as an open situation rather than a closed situation. “ —Brice Marden Brice ...
Charles Hinman, an artist known for his three-dimensional shaped canvases that transcended the tradtional concepts of painting and sculpture, died on May 29 in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was 93. Charles Hinman (1932 – 2026) View Down, Across to the Left and Right, 1964 Oil on shaped canvas 96 x 84 x 12 inches Signed and dated ...
“I try to explore it in all its possibilities, the vertical as a cause and result of the color, the shape of the canvas a cause and result of its ascent and inner verticality.” Leon Berkowitz Leon Berkowitz (1911 – 1987)Black Light (1966)Oil on canvas 69.75 x 75.75 inches70.5 x 76.5 inches framedProvenance:Estate of Leon BerkowitzGary Snyder Fine Arts, ...
For many artists, drawing is a mnemonic aid in a much greater plan; plot lines to be dressed with the adornment of another medium. Not so for Sillman. Sewell Sillman (1924 -1992) Spanish Crossing, 1963 oil on masonite 36 x 48 inches 38 x 50 inches framed Signed verso Provenance: Estate of Sewell Sillman, Stonington, CT 1992 Sewell Sillman was ...
Though best known for his sculptural work and written essays and articles on the changing nature of sculpture in society, Brenner was also an astonishingly capable painter, reflecting the Abstract Expressionist movement of the time. Art Brenner (1924-2013)Sunday No. 2, 1959Oil on canvas50 1/4 x 58 inches 52 x 59 3/4 inches framedStudio stamped verso; titled, signed and dated ...
“…we live in an age when men are no longer content with discovering new doors, but have begun to close them and erect them around themselves. But there is no escape from the door that all doors lead to.” Attilio Salemme (1911-1955) The Wanderer, 1946 Oil on canvas 28 x 43 inches36 1/2 x 51 1/2 ...
“…By a broader elimination I have sought to arrive at a greater purity.” – Charles Green Shaw Charles Green Shaw (1892-1974) Circle Divided, 1970 Oil on canvas 50 x 40 inches50 5/8 x 40 3/4 inches framed signed, dated verso Provenance:From the artist to Charles H. Carpenter, Jr., author of “The Decorative Arts and Crafts of Nantucket” and ...
Peter Alexander (February 27, 1939 – May 26, 2020) was an American artist and an important part of the Light and Space artistic movement in southern California in the 1960s. Peter Alexander (1939-2020) Malabar, 2004 acrylic on panel 36 x 40 inches titled, signed and dated ‘Malabar Peter Alexander 04’ on verso Provenance: Estate of the artist Alexander was born in ...