Louis Stern Fine Arts returns to Dallas for the 2025 Dallas Art Fair for the 5th year with a sampling of the gallery’s historic-focused program. 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, creating imaginative, mythic landscapes with forms that morphed between figures, patterns, and structures. Matsumi Kanemitsu’s artistic legacy is bicultural, embracing Japanese ink painting traditions and American Abstract Expressionism. Doug Ohlson made hard-edged geometric paintings that played with nuanced relationships between colors, retaining their intensity of color and form across method and scale. Considered by many to be the “Father of Mexican Modernism,” Alfredo Ramos Martínez was a painter, muralist, and educator who lived and worked in Mexico, Paris, and Los Angeles. Ken Price’s whimsical biomorphic ceramic sculptures and subverted classical forms were instrumental in elevating clay from a craft to a fine art medium. Richard Neutra’s architecture has played a significant role in how museums and art institutions tell the story of the Southern California modernist aesthetic.
A selection of the gallery’s contemporary artists will also be on view. Gabriele Evertz's work is concerned with sensations and perceptions, executed with meticulous precision and organized around the history and theory of color. Knopp Ferro’s foundational interest in movement, play, and the transformation of space and experience, together with his knowledge of metalworking, form the basis of his signature kinetic sculpture practice. Heather Hutchison’s works capture the essence of the phenomena of light and how it shifts in natural environments. Mokha Laget is known for her geometric abstractions that utilize shaped canvas to take hard-edge color field imagery into another dimension. Mark Leonard become the first Chief Conservator at the Dallas Museum of Art before returning to working full-time as an independent artist in 2017. Cecilia Miguez’s sculptures are animated figures, dreamily gliding between the worlds of mythology and reality. Richard Wilson mingles elements of hard edge abstraction together with intuitive coloristic impulses for his abstract “landscapes,” distilled to the essentials of space and light.
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 collection 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, Karl Benjamin, and Mark Leonard have also been donated to the annual TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art contemporary art auction held at The Rachofsky House in Dallas in recent years.