Louis Stern Fine Arts is pleased to announce the opening of two solo exhibitions featuring oil paintings by Les Biller and mixed media works on paper by Christopher Finch.
Les Biller
A frequent exhibitor throughout the 1960’s to the early 1990’s, most notably at the Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, 1993, and the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, 1984, Les Biller returns with a new body of work after a six-year hiatus. His "...attitude is that of a sailor on leave in Tokyo combined with that of an adolescent crazy in love with the exotic." William Wilson once described Les Biller in those terms. Biller’s painting continues to erupt with color and light in exotic ways. But now, instead of dance halls, geisha houses, and other romantic adventures, the work is still life painting with the volume turned up.
Christopher Finch
Well known for his many books on art and popular culture, most notably the seminal The Art of Walt Disney, Christopher Finch returned to painting in the 1980’s after a lapse of twenty years. The works in the “Good Girls, Bad Girls” series bring together images from the worlds of fine art and comic strips in ways that turn stereotypes inside-out, finding both humor and poetry in juxtapositions of kitsch with vignettes of mandarin taste. His last exhibition was a one man show at the Anita Friedman Gallery in New York City.
The exhibition opens Saturday, June 5, 1999 and continues through the 10th of July. There will be an artist’s reception in conjunction with the other West Hollywood area galleries on Saturday evening, June 5, from 6:00PM until 9:00PM.