Dallas Art Fair 2024

Louis Stern Fine Arts returns to Dallas for the 2024 Dallas Art Fair for the 4th year with a sampling of the gallery's historic-focused program. Returning to booth F11 with a larger, expanded booth design, the gallery will display artworks in various styles and mediums. Lorser Feitelson, Helen Lundeberg, and Karl Benjamin represent the gallery's focus on Mid-Century West Coast Geometric Abstraction as three artists who defined and epitomized the California Hard Edge movement. Mimi Chen Ting was a Chinese-American painter, printmaker, and performance artist whose high-spirited practice fused Eastern and Western aesthetics. Ynez Johnston was an American modernist who melded a playful visual language from modern and ancient art. She created imaginative, mythic landscapes with forms that morphed between figures, patterns, and structures. Matsumi Kanemitsu is often identified as a second-generation Abstract Expressionist, but his artistic legacy is bicultural, embracing Japanese ink painting traditions and American Abstract Expressionism and Pop art. Doug Ohlson made hard-edged geometric paintings that played with nuanced relationships between colors. Throughout his career, he varied the scale and method of his painting but always retained his intensity of color and form. Alfredo Ramos Martínez was a painter, muralist, and educator who lived and worked in Mexico, Paris, and Los Angeles. Considered by many to be the 'Father of Mexican Modernism,' Ramos Martinez is best known for his serene and empathetic depictions of the people and traditions of rural Mexico. Frederick Wight was a multi-talented cultural leader who played a significant role in transforming Los Angeles into a major art center. An influential educator at the University of California, Los Angeles, his paintings portray radiant landscapes that appear to be animated by mysterious, spiritual forces. Richard Wilson is known for his vast, atmospheric canvases. Wilson mingles elements of Hard-Edge Abstraction with intuitive coloristic impulses for his abstract landscapes, which are distilled to the essentials of space and light. Mark Leonard began his work as a restorer at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Beginning in 2009, he returned to working full-time as an independent artist, until, in 2012, he was invited by the Dallas Museum of Art to become the museum’s first Chief Conservator. In 2017 he returned to California and resumed his focus on his own works. Upon close inspection of Leonard’s work, the brushwork on the surface retains a delicate and meticulous sense of movement. When seen from a normal viewing distance, the result is a lush sense of vibrancy and textures. Mokha Laget is a New Mexico-based painter known for her geometric abstractions that utilize shaped canvas to take hard- edge color field imagery into another dimension.

Dallas/Fort Worth locals may be familiar with select gallery artists from their inclusions in local museum collections. Ynez Johnston and Matsumi Kanemitsu have numerous works in the Amon Carter Museum of American Art as part of the Tamarind Lithography Workshop Collection. The Dallas Museum of Art has collected works by Ynez Johnston, Doug Ohlson, and Alfredo Ramos Martínez. Paintings by Doug Ohlson, Lorser Feitelson, and Karl Benjamin have also been donated to the annual TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art annual contemporary art auction held at The Rachofsky House in Dallas in recent years.