Helen Lundeberg (1908-1999)
Untitled, 1964-1969
acrylic on canvas
36 x 36 inches; 91.4 x 91.4 centimeters
LSFA# 10266
Some Curves: Selections from the Gallery
August 3 – September 14, 2013
Almost every gallery has an extra storage space filled with a cache of works deserving of a proper exhibition. Typically, this inventory is wrapped and stored ‘in the back.’ But during August, the traditional month of gallery housecleaning, one-of-a-kind objects, as-yet-unseen or new-to-the-gallery paintings are finally moved out front, onto the gallery walls.
Thus, the relationship betwixt the artworks included in this exhibition is less linear than the usual offering. The work of gallery artists Helen Lundeberg, Leonard Nimoy, June Wayne, Elizabeth Patterson, Cecilia Miguez and, new to the gallery, Louise Belcourt make appearances. Curatorial ideas may be familiar. Hard Edge compositions of cornflower blue adjacent to sky blue adjacent to a salmon pink curve speak with their perpetual elegance. Carefully cropped photographs, printed in large-scale formats, suggest a world far removed from the day-to-day shuffle of LA life. Strong color, from the red of apples to the neon glow of brake lights to a self-sustaining field of red-orange, re-occurs throughout.
Though a number of the works on view may feel like ‘old friends,’ the discovery innate in this arrangement is brand new. Certainly there is no denying the visual charms of a more thematically straightforward installation. However, during the eve of the end of summer, why not some curves?