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Quint Contemporary Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of artwork from the estate
of Manny Farber, opening July 23 and running through September 10, 2011. There will be a
public reception on Saturday, July 23rd from 6 - 8 PM. Manny Farber began showing at Quint
Contemporary Art in 1985, and this will be the seventeenth solo exhibition for the artist at the
gallery.
The exhibition, comprised of approximately 20 selected drawings and paintings, will feature key
works completed over the course of Farber’s painting career. The works will highlight Farber’s
passion for painting, film and the visual world in general. His cultivation of a tabletop working
process can be traced from his earliest paintings of the everyday objects on his desk, like
cigarettes and candy, to his later paintings with images including everything from art books,
rebar and flowers from the garden of his wife, Patricia. He once described his art by saying:
“...what I’m doing in paintings is pretty much creating movies. I’m lining up objects and lining up
paths through painting, pretty close to the way a movie director makes a movie.” The direction
of his painting career will be charted from the mid-1970s to the early-2000s.
Born in Douglas, Arizona in 1917, Farber began painting in the 1930s. Before joining the faculty of
the University of California, San Diego Visual Arts Department in 1969, he was a film critic in New
York, writing for the New Republic, the Nation and ARTFORUM. Known in the 1950s and 1960s for
his shaped canvas abstractions, Farber began painting still lifes in 1974. He retired from teaching
in 1987 and continued painting at his studio in Leucadia, California until his death in 2008. His solo
exhibitions since 1982 have included The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Gagosian
Gallery, Los Angeles; The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; The Carnegie Museum of
Art, Pittsburg; PS1, New York and The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
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