exhibition of important works
Keith Sonnier
KORDANSKY DAVID
520 W. 20th St. New York, NY 10011
T: 212.390.0079 e-mail:
gallery's Multiple Locations :Los Angeles CA, New York NY
June 22 > August 9, 2024
Keith Sonnier, Neon Wrapping Incandescent VI, 1968, argon and neon tubes, porcelain fixtures, incandescent bulbs, light switch, transformer, and electrical wire, 105 x 104 x 8 inches (266.7 x 264.2 x 20.3 cm). Photo: Phoebe d'Heurle. © 2024 Keith Sonnier / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York![]( "click to enlarge- double click to reduce")
ABOUT EXHIBITION : exhibition of important works
We are pleased to announce our first exhibition of important works by Keith Sonnier (1941–2020), a major postwar American artist whose unique vision encompassed advances in sculpture, painting, installation, and performance. Best known for his pioneering use of light, Sonnier authored a complex body of work that challenges dogmas at the heart of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art historical narratives. His association with the artists grouped under the post-Minimalist rubric provides some insight into a mind that understood materials according to their innate properties as well as the cascading reverberations of associations they make in the realms of human perception and culture. The exhibition focuses on a three-year period between 1968 and 1970 in which Sonnier first began working with neon and argon, and made many of the breakthroughs that would define his career.
ABOUT ARTISTS : Keith Sonnier
Keith Sonnier Abstract :
Keith Sonnier b. Mamou, LA, USA, 31 July 1941 — d. Southampton, USA, 18 July 2020.
Keith Sonnier is a post-Minimalist American artist. Starting out in New York in the mid-1960s, he completely reinvented sculpture, revamping traditionally used materials and techniques to experiment with new forms. Despite sharing a desire for anti-illusionist sculpture with Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, and Sol LeWitt, from the outset, Sonnier’s works were imbued with a more narrative, literary quality than those of the Minimalist artists. In 1968, Sonnier became one of the first artists to explore the effects of light in his work by making and incorporating curved fluorescent lights to initiate a dialogue between the works and their surroundings.
Since the 1980s, he has received around twenty public commissions. Moreover, numerous exhibitions have been dedicated to his work, notably at the Pompidou Centre in Paris in 1979, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC in 1989, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin in 2003, and, more recently, the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York, in 2018. His works are featured in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and MoMA in New York, the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, and MOCA in Los Angeles to name but a few.
Gallery Opening Hours : Tuesday-Saturday 10am–6pm
Opening reception :Saturday, June 22 | 6 – 8 PM ET
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