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Diane Rosenstein Fine Art is pleased to announce,
"The Washington School," a new exhibition of work by the “first
generation” of Washington Color School painters, including rarely
seen work by Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis.
On view will be 14 paintings by Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis,
Thomas Downing, Gene Davis, and Howard Mehring -- the
original artists included in Gerald Nordland's influential exhibition,
"The Washington Color Painters," at the Washington Gallery of
Modern Art in the summer of 1965.
Our exhibition chronicles the pivotal shift from Abstract
Expressionism into Proto-Pop Art, Op Art, and Minimalism.
Highlights include Morris Louis’ “Number 33,” (1962); Kenneth
Noland’s “Trans Varies” (1968), included in Noland’s 1977
Guggenheim retrospective; and Thomas Downing’s “Korfu” (1965) -
- a “Parallelogram” from Downing’s one-man show at the La Jolla
Museum of Art in 1968.
“The Washington School” also includes a “Cathedral” painting by
Leon Berkowitz, an artist strongly associated with Louis and
Noland. Berkowitz founded the Washington Workshop Center for
the Arts, and was Chairman of the Painting Department at the
Corcoran Gallery School for the Arts in Washington, D.C.
In 1960, Critic Clement Greenberg championed the Washington
Color School painters as the immediate descendants of Abstract
Expressionists. Through pouring and staining unsized canvases, and
further isolating color in geometric compositions, these artists
formed new paintings with color and color alone, each in unique
ways. The emotional components of color are presented
immediately and without "painterly" gesture – the paintings are
optical experiences.
“The Washington School” artists were first shown in Los Angeles in
1964, as part of Greenberg’s “Post-Painterly Abstraction” at
LACMA. The following winter, Gerald Nordland’s “The Washington
Color Painters” show traveled to the Art Museum at U.C. Santa
Barbara. More recently, the Norton Simon Museum included
Thomas Downing and Kenneth Noland in the 2011 exhibition,
“Surface Truths: Abstract Painting in the Sixties.”
ABOUT THE GALLERY: Diane Rosenstein Fine Art (DRFA) is
located at 9399 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, on the corner of
Canon Drive. Exhibition plans include alternating 20th Century
Post-War historical exhibitions with presentations of Mid-Career
and Emerging Artists from Los Angeles. Diane Rosenstein has
previously been a private dealer and art consultant to residential
and corporate collections.
"The Washington School" opens Saturday, June 23rd with a reception
from 6 – 8pm. The exhibition will be on view from June 23rd - August 25, 2012.
Hours are 10am – 6pm, Tuesday – Saturday.
For further information, please contact info@dianerosenstein.com
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