SULLIVAN GOSS: Shows I’ve Curated 2005-Present

SYSTEM DISRUPTION

January 18 - February 25, 2018

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Sometimes, a curator will simply do a show because they want to see it. The artists were terrific. The works in the exhibition were terrific. On the whole, though, it didn’t quite come off. It was a difficult concept and the work was quite visually disparate. Still, I am proud to have put it on the gallery’s walls. A system is a pattern, a process, a format, a compositional sensibility, or an iconography. Artists build systems and then disrupt them, but the balance of system to disruption that they chase is, I think worth further study. Check out the installation. It was our first interactive video installation and it was my first chance to work with both Nathan Hayden and Bob Nugent. Nathan Hayden’s future is very, very bright, I think.

ANGELA PERKO: RELICS OF ANOTHER EDEN

October 5 - December 3, 2017

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I will always remember this as the exhibition where Angela outgrew Santa Barbara. Were the palettes Santa Barbara? Yes, for some. Were some of the images local images? Yes, in some cases. But, in the main, the thematic content and the sophistication of the allusions and symbols need a much larger base of collectors. That’s okay. This work will come back and will be seen for what it most certainly is…

LEON DABO: FALL LIGHT

September 7 - October 29, 2017

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This is our first purely Tonalist exhibition for Leon Dabo, a painter who was… ta da… mainly known as a Tonalist. It makes a sensational counterpoint to the Joseph Goldyne exhibition. In fairness, it was Joseph’s idea to combine the two.

JOSEPH GOLDYNE: FALL LIGHT

September 7 - October 29, 2017

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Between late mid-century abstraction, Japanese scroll painting, and late nineteenth century landscape painting, you get something both familiar and new. This new exhibition of waterfalls has so many spectacular works. It was a joy to put together.

THANK GOD FOR PHILIP KOPLIN

September 7 - October 1, 2017

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Philip Koplin was an acquaintance who I wish I could have counted as a friend. He died suddenly and recently, and so Sullivan Goss decided to give him a memorial retrospective. I worked very hard on this as Phil’s work wasn’t very well organized. The installation came out particularly beautifully.

DAVID FLORES AT SULLIVAN GOSS

August 3 - September 3, 2017

PRESS: SB INDEPENDENT | SB SENTINEL | SB MAGAZINE

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I am, admittedly, not mentioned in any of the articles about the show. Nonetheless, I initially approached David at the opening for another artist. We hypothesized about the possibility of him painting a mural in the largest gallery at Sullivan Goss. I introduced him to a fabricator / machinist in metal. Moreover, our conversation about Fiesta may have resulted in a nine foot tall, eight foot wide hot pink painting of Pancho Villa. On the other hand, I didn’t CHOOSE anything for the show. David pretty much put it together. I simply acted as liaison and PR person. Kudos to new gallery owner Nathan Vonk for his courage and vision to bring the exhibition into the gallery.

HANK PITCHER: LOOK OUT

March 2 - April 30, 2017

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For Hank Pitcher’s first solo exhibition in three years, Hank and I worked out a more minimalist installation with a number of “extra” pieces for collectors in a back room. I also created an 11 x 13 inch prototype coffee table book for his exhibition. The exhibition was a slam dunk success. I love working with painters of Hank’s seriousness and ambition.

THE ART OF SANTA BARBARA: 1875-2016

October 6 - December 31, 2016

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Santa Barbara’s art scene is 141 years old this year, making it the second oldest continuous art scene in California*. *(during the American period) It narrowly edges out Carmel, and trails only San Francisco. Over that time, it has had two dedicated art schools, three university art programs, and scores of really good artists. Dividing the exhibition up into THE EARLIEST ARTISTS (1875-1915), THE GOLDEN AGE ARTISTS (1915-1935), MIDCENTURY MASTERS (1950-1975), and TODAY’S LEADING LIGHTS, which includes both our regularly represented artists as well as many of the artists whose works have been more abstract or conceptual over the last thirty years. It’s a major show for us.

SIDNEY GORDIN: CONSTRUCTIVISM IN FLUX

September 1 - October 30, 2016

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This is my third Sidney Gordin exhibition. The title references the odd coincidence that Sidney Gordin was teaching at the New School for Social Research in 1957 when John Cage gave a series of lectures about indeterminacy that are credited as having helped ignite the neo-Dada movement known as FLUXUS. Gordin’s relationship to DADA is tenuous at best, though his relationship to Surrealism is more substantial. Nevertheless, his approach to Constructivism is marked by wit and a sense of chance, which are both hallmarks of FLUXUS.

GIANTS INTERTWINED: THE ESTATE OF PAUL WONNER & WILLIAM THEOPHILUS BROWN

August 4 - October 2, 2016

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It was a special thrill to work with the Estate of two Bay Area Figurative artists. Paul Wonner is someone I have admired, in particular, for a long time for the way that he was able imbue a simple figure painting with such poetry and portent. Often, this was achieved with color and a certain fluidity to the brushwork.

JEAN SWIGGETT: AS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS

May 5, 2016 - July 3, 2016

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NELL BROOKER MAYHEW

March 3 - May 1, 2016

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ANGELA PERKO: Earthly Delight

October 1 - November 29, 2015

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Angela’s latest body of work concerned itself with gardens, as a site (and metaphor for?) where nature and art co-mingle. She made a series of large, complicated garden paintings in addition to a whole series of wonderful still lifes. Our conversations about these works were as rich and vibrant as the paintings themselves.

CA COOL: what’s so cool about california?

July 2 - September 27, 2015

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I assembled modernist / minimalist paintings and sculptures from the 1950s to the present day that exhibit traces of the detachment implied by coolness. There were nods to surf culture, to skate culture, to graphic design, and to product design. It was a gamble on a genre bending show of modern and contemporary work that trades in “coolness.”

THE DECLARTIONS OF INDEPENDENTS: An Exhibition of Strong Women Modernists

May 7 - June 28, 2015

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Women: should they be artists? Why? I kid. Obviously, I kid about a sensitive subject. Sullivan Goss represents 14 living artists of whom 9 are women. We have a small number of collectors who only collect the work of women. This exhibition grew into an examination of women who braved open hostility to create Modern art. It was a beautiful show, and the front window brought many, MANY people in who were curious about the subject. Take that, patriarchal canon!

AGORAPHOBIA: Portraits of American Interiors

December 4, 2014 – March 1, 2015

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Have you noticed that people stay home a lot more than they used to? Or that the home has become a format for self-expression, even among the middle classes? Watching movies, shopping: these things can now be done at home. I wanted to put together an exhibition that examined that phenomenon from an artist’s point of view.

ANDERS ALDRIN: Color Seeking Form

December 4, 2014 – March 1, 2015

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Anders Aldrin was a Swedish immigrant to California who studied at Otis, the Santa Barbara School of Art, the California School of Fine Arts, and the Art Students League of Los Angeles. He developed along Fauvist / Expressionist lines, using strong, unusual colors and gestural, brushy painting to impart the intended emotional effect. This exhibition focused on his still lifes and figures. It was also our first exhibition to feature his color woodblocks.

JEAN SWIGGETT: A One Man Renaissance

December 4, 2014 – March 1, 2015

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The gallery recently purchased the Estate of Jean Swiggett. He was as associated with an eccentric realism as he was with the city of San Diego, where he lived and taught for much of his career. As it was a small estate, I chose to present a chronological overview of his work – from a painting featured in the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition to Magical Realist figurative nudes from the 1980s. The responses of a technically proficient render to “Modernism” were fascinating, but it his eccentric, and occasionally erotic, late work that set him way apart in California art history.

LEON DABO: Art for Art’s sake

October 2 - December 28, 2014

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This wasn’t my first Leon Dabo exhibition, and it won’t be my last. I referenced the rallying cry of the Aesthetic Movement with the title, and tried to present fifty years of work as loosely related without providing any clear structure to create meaning. I wanted people to “discover” how Dabo evolved and yet took ideas forward with him as he got older.

CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF FINE ART: 1984-2014

September 4 - November 30, 2014

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To celebrate the gallery’s 30th anniversary, I put together an exhibition highlighting the best of our current program with some story-telling didactics explaining how the gallery had gotten involved with the various artists.

FOR REAL? Magical Realism in American Art

April 3 - June 1, 2014

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Magical Realism is not a term you hear every day. It sounds like a paradox. For most people who are already familiar with the term, it relates to a literary movement associated with such Latin American writers as Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. One scholar described the literary movement as: what happens when a highly detailed, realistic setting is invaded by something too strange to believe. In fact, there is a corresponding movement in North American art. It seems to have come into being some time in the mid to late 1930s. It has been especially associated with artists of the Midwest like Gertrude Abercrombie and John Wilde, but there were artists all across the country who were working with similar ideas.

TONALISM NOW: The Present Moment

September 5 - December 29, 2013

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TONALISM NOW proved to be a remarkably exciting exhibition to put together. Riffing on how contemporary artists have picked apart a historical movement was fun and made for a beautiful result. Really, I am quite proud of how it came together.

TONALISM THEN: 1870-1930

September 5 - December 29, 2013

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What is Tonalism? Our audience was generally unaware of the term, even as they had been buying lightly abstracted (or even blurry) landscapes with muted color harmonies and a moodiness that moved to reverie or even melancholy. So, I put together a show to contextualize the gallery’s acquisition of the Estates of Lockwood de Forest and Leon Dabo. I even snuck in a work by Nell Brooker Mayhew. Really, it is quite a positioning show for the gallery.

COLLECTING CALIFORNIA

July 4 - September 1, 2013

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Ah… my core competency. I could curate an exhibition of historic California landscape painting in my sleep. I didn’t though. I was fully awake; I swear.

JUST BETWEEN US: Wesley Anderegg, Rafael Perea de la Cabada, Maria Rendon

April 4 - June 2, 2013

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This exhibition gave me a chance to work with three artists whose work excites me. They are all, to my eye, contemporary makers in a Latin American Surrealist / Folk tradition. So, issues of self-portraiture and highly personal narratives in an abstract age drive the work.

THE LIFE & ART OF LEON DABO

November 1 - December 30, 2012

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This was a mini-retrospective from the Estate of Leon Dabo (1864-1960). It had just a few examples from each of the major periods of the artist’s career.

DREAMS & LOST WORLDS

October 24 - October 28, 2012

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This was a mini-exhibition curated as a booth within the 2012 San Francisco Fall Antiques Show. Tonal, dreamy, and pearlescent, the exhibition attempted to offer fair goers a visual respite from all of the other “OOH! Pick me!” materials offered in other booths. In this, it was modestly successful. Check out the installation shots to see more.

elemental: WATER

September 6 - October 28, 2012

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Another meta-exhibition at Sullivan Goss. This time, I put together an exhibition about how strong the gallery’s connection is to paintings of the water. We live here by the water. All of us choose to do so at some expense. Paintings of the water are what sells best in Santa Barbara, too. Not these paintings of water, necessarily, but paintings that feature the water sell best where we are. Though, all of these artists sell quite well for us. Also, these are strong works. There’s something to be said for that.

SIDNEY GORDIN: JUST PUT IT TOGETHER

June 7 - September 2, 2012

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Working once again with the wonderful Estate of Sidney Gordin (1918-1996), I put together a mini-retrospective exhibition that traces the evolution of Gordin’s “collage-based” creative process from his Abstract Expressionist paintings of 1944, through newly discovered Surrealist photo collages, paintings, sculptures, and constructions. Gordin’s process is marked by an assembly, or combination, of elements that is best summarized by my Tim-Gunnesque title, “JUST PUT IT TOGETHER.”

Joseph GoldyneJOSEPH GOLDYNE: WATERFALLS

April 5 - July 1, 2012

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This exhibition was organized to debut the imaginary waterfall paintings of Joseph Goldyne. Balancing on the edge where plein air sketching, abstract expressionism, and Japanese and Chinese scroll painting meet, Joseph’s work brings a brilliant, evocative image forward that astounds both in its simplicity and in its openness to different interpretation. It is, in short, a kind of lodestone image.

Howard WarshawHOWARD WARSHAW: NEW FORMS

March 1 - June 3, 2012

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For the gallery’s final nod to Pacific Standard Time, we presented an exhibition from the Estate of Howard Warshaw. This exhibition looks at Warshaw’s commitment to print making, to muralism, and to the development of “organic cubism” over his twenty-some years in Southern California. Warshaw remains one of the most under-appreciated artists of the mid-twentieth century. His formal innovations continue to inspire today’s artists and certain serious collectors.

Zack PaulZACK PAUL: INSIDE OUT

February 2 -April 1, 2012

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After watching Zack Paul develop for eight years, I was happy to help put together Zack Paul’s first major solo exhibition. Zack’s work updates South American Constructivist and California Hard Edge tropes to open discussions about architecture, perception, and the critical theory that surrounds the idea of the trace.

Leon DaboTHE DRAWINGS OF LEON DABO

January 5 - March 31, 2012

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This is the first exhibition from the estate of Leon Dabo (1865-1960), a French-born American artist who rose to prominence during the Tonalist period of the early twentieth century. For our first exhibition, we chose to show drawings, which I felt were more accessible to contemporary eyes.

John...Marsha...LA’s RISEN

August 4 - October 30, 2011

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If you read through this whole list of exhibitions I’ve curated, you notice a prevailing interest in what might be termed “American Modernism,” “California Modernism,” or even “Southern California Modernism.” This exhibition somehow ties them all together with Lyn Kienholz’ new book LA RISING and the Getty’s PACIFIC STANDARD TIME project. It is a magical look at the history and diversity of art in Los Angeles from 1940 - 1980.

Ah, the AMERICAN century.RICHARD HAINES: SUBDIVIDING THE SPACE

July 7 - August 28, 2011

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This exhibition traces a certain compositional tendency in the work of Richard Haines from Precisionist works in 1939 to a somewhat Magical Realist works in the late 1960s. Haines worked in woodblocks. He took a camouflage class. He was interested in Cubism. All of these produced a tendency to “subdivide” the space into increasingly small pieces. Watch the video. It explains the whole idea a bit better.

Such. Good. Work.HASSEL SMITH: UPENDING ORTHODOXY

January 6 - April 3, 2011

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Moving from loose figuration and collage to totally abstract painting in the 40s and 50s, Smith shifted gears again in the early to mid 1960s towards a quirky, pop-modern figurative style. In the 1970s, he began his “measured” painting series - several examples of which were shown in this exhibit. In the 1980s, he returned to a more painterly style of abstract painting which the gallery calls his “feathery” works. In the mid 1990s, Smith returned to his roots with a series of paintings strangely like those of the late 1940s and 50s. Two of those paintings are shown were exhibited at the gallery for the first time along with a suite of his drawings.

Pearls before swine? Maybe...THE OBJECT OF ART

December 2, 2010 - January 2, 2011

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ARTISTS FEATURED:

Ken Bortolazzo, Edgar Ewing, Sidney Gordin, James Haggerty, Joan Rosenberg-Dent

CALIFORNIA GOLD

November 4, 2010 - January 2, 2011

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Meredith Brooks Abbott, Anders Aldrin, Harvey B. Coleman, Colin Campbell Cooper, John Gamble, Arthur Hazard, Ralph Holmes, Alexis B. Many, Nell Brooker Mayhew, Thomas McGlynn, Grace Libby Vollmer, William Wendt

GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION: RECURRING PATTERNS IN AMERICAN ART

July 1 - September 26, 2010

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ARTISTS FEATURED:

Karl Benjamin, Val Bertoia, Ilya Bolotowsky, Ken Bortolazzo, Thomas Brownwell Eldred, Jules Engel, Nancy Gifford, Sidney Gordin, Ida Kohlmeyer, John Moses, Zack Paul, Hassel Smith

COLORING OUTSIDE THE LINES: THE ART OF ANDERS ALDRIN

July 1 - September 26, 2010

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(Under construction)

THE LAST NEW CENTURY: AMERICAN ART FROM 1880-1920

April 1 - July 31, 2010

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ARTISTS FEATURED:

Helen Balfour, Albert Bierstadt, Frank Brangwyn, John Edmund Califano, Colin Campbell Cooper, Gideon Jacques Denny, Lockwood de Forest, Mauritz Frederick de Haas, Childe Hassam, Anna Hills, Christian Jorgensen, Nell Brooker Mayhew, Edward Potthast, Carducius Plantagenet Ream, Frederick Schaffer, George Gardner Symons

2010 LA ART SHOW

January 20-24, 2010

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Anders Aldrin, Rebekah Bogard, Ken Bortolazzo, Frank Brangwyn, John Edmund Califano, Aldo Casanova, Lockwood de Forest, Guy Diehl, Alia El-Bermani, Martha Erlebacher, Lorser Feitelson, Sidney Gordin, James Haggerty, Richard Haines, Childe Hassam, Leon Kelly, Dan Lutz, Nell Brooker Mayhew, John McCracken, Knud Merrild, John Nava, Angela Perko, Hank Pitcher, Carducius Plantagenet Ream, Bentley Schaad, Hassel Smith, John Wilde

LOCKWOOD DE FOREST (1850-1932)

October 1, 2009 - January 2, 2010

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Lockwood de Forest started studying painting with Frederick Church when he was nineteen years old . He would go on to lead a fascinating life, full of the brightest and most interesting figures of the late nineteenth century, but he also kept a large record of his private meditations in nature. De Forest took sketching in oil en plein air and made it fine, sensitive, and fresh. This exhibition also featured two substantial studio paintings.

SIDNEY GORDIN: DRAWINGS IN AIR & ON PAPER

October 1, 2009 - January 2, 2010

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Sidney Gordin was part of the last generation of Constructivists to emerge from a true Modernist grounding. In fifty-seven years of restless and beautiful experimentation, Gordin plumbed the dynamics of intuition and intellect in creating art. He made both sculptures and drawings that expose the inner workings of our perception of space. He also made a handful of Abstract Expressionist paintings in the halcyon years of the movement.

RICHARD HAINES: ENDURANCE

August 6 - November 1, 2009

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The title for the exhibition came to me while I was walking along the beach. Walking around the point between East Beach and Butterfly Beach in Santa Barbara, I came upon some driftwood. In our last exhibition of paintings by Richard Haines, I’d featured a lovely abstracted painting of a beach with driftwood. It reminded me of Haines’ austere beauty and his lifelong commitment to painting. This exhibition featured paintings of the beach and figures as well as lithographs from the full span of Richard Haines’ career.

EDGAR EWING: THE LATER WORKS

July 2 - August 27, 2009

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This exhibition of USC Art Professor Edgar Ewing was principally aimed as an examination of the works he produced from the 1970s until the 1990s. I am grateful to the Sullivan Goss Art Historian, Danielle Peltakian, for her help in assembling the exhibition.

Dan Lutz Busmans Holiday L.A. NOIR

May 7 - August 2, 2009

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ARTISTS FEATURED:

Francis De Erdely, Boris Deutsch, Lorser Feitelson, Anya Fisher, Carol Golemboski, Richard Haines, Lenard Kester, Edward Kienholz, Paul Landacre, Rico Lebrun, Dan Lutz, Ben Messick, Bentley Schaad, Robert Townsend, Howard Warshaw

AMERICAN MOXIE

May 7 - August 2, 2009

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Anders Aldrin, Walter Frankl, Don Freeman, Dan Lutz, Ben Messick, BJO Nordfeldt, Einar Petersen, John Saccaro, Dorothy Sklar, Joseph Solman

NELL BROOKER MAYHEW: IN QUIET COMMUNION

January 8 - March 29, 2009

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This show attempted to set Nell Brooker Mayhew’s contribution within a larger historical context that included forces and philosophies that shaped her like the American Transcendentalist movement, the rise of the American “Barbizon” school, the opening of Japan to the West and the rise of arts production in promoting women’s rights.

STRANGE CLAYS: NEW DIRECTIONS IN CERAMICS

April 2 - June 29, 2009

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Joan Bankemper, Rebekah Bogard, John Oliver Lewis, Jesse Small

BENTLEY SCHAAD: LOST MODERNIST OF CALIFORNIA

January 8 - March 29, 2009

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This exhibition came about as a result of a happy confluence of special circumstances. Otis went online with a huge document archive that had never been available before around the same time that the gallery was able to acquire enough Schaad’s to mount an exhibition. The height of Schaad’s career coincides with one of my favorite periods in American art - the final, full maturity of Modernism just before everything went Post Modern.

HECHO EN MEXICO

November 6 - January 4, 2009

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John Bernhardt, Hans Burkhardt, Francis de Erdely, Lockwood de Forest, Richard Haines, Lucretia Van Horn, Betty Lane, Rico Lebrun, Dan Lutz, Ben Messick, Ward Montague, Dorothy Pucinelli, Sueo Serisawa, Millard Sheets

ALDO CASANOVA: SELECTED SCULPTURES

November 6, 2008 - January 4, 2009

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Aldo Casanova was a Rome Prize winner in 1956 whose sculptures had piqued the interest of a collector I admire. This exhibition marked our first solo show for the artist. Note the connection of Casanova’s work to other late Modernists of California like Paul Soldner, Rico Lebrun and Howard Warshaw.

JAMES HAGGERTY: NEW CERAMICS

September 4 - November 2, 2008

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James Haggerty is one of Santa Barbara’s best living artists and one of America’s most gifted glaze chemists in fine art ceramics. That I had to go all the way to Los Angeles to learn about him is one of the tasty little ironies of life in the Art World. This was our first exhibition for James and my first video effort. The video is… embarrassing, but the work is gorgeous.

FREDERICK REMAHL: THE ARTIST AND THE SEA

July 3 - August 31, 2008

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This exhibition examines the Swedish born artist’s mysterious connection to the sea. Landlocked in the Windy City, Remahl continued to paint the Northern Atlantic of his youth an the waters of Lake Michigan as a continual theme throughout his career. The poetry of longing implied by Remahl’s dolls - the artist’s name for his bizarre little figures - speaks of connection, between man and woman, between the Old World and the New World, and between the artist and the sea.

HOWARD WARSHAW: LOOKING IN/DRAWING OUT

May 1, 2008 - June 29, 2008

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ANDERS ALDRIN

May 1, 2008 - June 29, 2008

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LOS ANGELES ART SHOW, 2008

January 23 - January 27, 2008

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Colin Campbell Cooper | Martha Mayer Erlebacher | Sidney Gordin | Dan Lutz | Nell Brooker Mayhew | John Nava | Hank Pitcher | Jack Smith | Frank Taira | William Wendt

ANYA FISHER: SOFT EDGE / HARD EDGE

December 1, 2007 - February 3, 2008

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1957

October 13 - November 25, 2007

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ARTISTS FEATURED:

Gertrude Abercrombie, John Altoon, Karl Benjamin, John Bernhardt, Hans Burkhardt, Harry Carmean, Richard Diebenkorn, Edgar Ewing, Anya Fisher, Lorser Feitelson, Paul Georges, Sidney Gordin, Richard Haines, Ed Kienholz, Betty Lane, Dan Lutz, Bruce McGaw, Robert Natkin, Manuel Neri, Channing Peake, Bentley Schaad, Elise Seeds, Raimonds Staprans, Howard Warshaw, Max Weber

THE URBAN MYTH: VISIONS OF THE CITY

August 11 - October 7, 2007

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ARTISTS FEATURED:

Anders Aldrin, Bo Bartlett, Barry Berkus, Matty Byloos, Patricia Chidlaw, Colin Campbell Cooper, Joellyn Duesberry, Irma Cavat, Frank Tolles Chamberlin, Jon Francis, Robin Gowen, Julia Hensley, Kim H. Howard, David Jonason, Wayne Lacom, Betty Lane, Fernand Lungren, Wayne Mccall, Ben Messick, R. Kenton Nelson, Brian Reynolds, Frederick Remahl, Peter Ruta, Audrey Sanders, Julius Schulman, Joe Schwartz, Ben Shahn, Nicole Strasburg, Nicholas Takis, James David Thomas, Claude Venard, Sarah Vedder, Shiba Ward

RICHARD HAINES: AN AMERICAN MODERN

August 11 - October 7, 2007

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CURATOR’S CHOICE: THE AMERICAN DYNAMO

October 12, 2006 - January 17, 2007

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Anders Aldrin, Frank Tolles, Chamberlin, Walter Frankl, Richard Haines, Emil Kosa Jr., Wayne Lacom, Betty Lane, Dan Lutz, Ben Messick, Jonathan Hartley Scott Dorothy Sklar, and Grace Vollmer

SANTA BARBARA SCULPTOR’S GUILD

August 1 - October 7, 2006

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Bela Basci, Elliot Chang, Rebecca Davis, JoAnne Duby, Gregory Kailian, Laura Langley, Mark Leffert, Nevin, Rosie Price, Jill Vander Hoof, Nina Ward

CURRENTS AND CONCURRENCE

June 8 - August 15, 2006

Artists featured: Anya Fisher | Richard Haines | Betty Lane

GREAT AMERICAN MODERNISM

March 30 - April 19, 2006

Artists featured: Anders Aldrin | John Altoon | John Bernhardt | Byron Browne | Hans Burkhardt | Leonard Edmonson | Anya Fisher | Richard Haines | Lyla Harcoff | Frank Kleinholz | Ida Kohlmeyer | Wayne Lacom | Dan Lutz | Knud Merrild | Ben Messick | Arthur Secunda | Joseph Solman | Claude Venard | Grace Vollmer | Howard Warshaw

PALM SPRINGS MODERNISM (SULLIVAN GOSS BOOTH)

February 17 - February 19, 2006

Artists featured: John Altoon | John Bernhardt | Ken Bortolazzo | Byron Browne | Harry Carmean | Lockwood de Forest | Aristides Demetrios | William Dole | Edgar Ewing | Anya Fisher | Richard Haines | Herb Kornfeld | Wayne Lacom | Emil Lazarevich | Dan Lutz | Anton Refregier | Frederick Remahl | Arthur Secunda | Claude Venard | Howard Warshaw

LOS ANGELES ART SHOW (SULLIVAN GOSS BOOTH)

January 25 - January 29, 2006

Artists featured: Gertrude Abercrombie | Anders Aldrin | Harry Carmean | Colin Campbell Cooper | Francis Criss | Lockwood de Forest | Henry Chapman Ford | Richard Haines | Leon Kelly | WHD Koerner | Betty Lane | Alexis Many | Knud Merrild | Ben Messick | Thomas Moran | Granville Redmond | Frederick Remahl | Dorothy Sklar | Jack Smith | Nell Walker Warner | Howard Warshaw | Max Weber | William Wendt

HARRY CARMEAN: IN THE FLESH

July 21, 2005 - August 31, 2005

ANIMA MUNDI

June 10, 2005 - August 3, 2005

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Artists featured: Terry Delapp | Jon Francis | Robin Gowen | Richard Haines | Channing Peake | Hank Pitcher | Nicole Strasburg | Ray Strong | Sarah Vedder