STERN LOUIS FINE ARTS,WEST HOLLYWOOD CA , U.S.A. - Lorser Feitelson : Magical Forms - January 25 > March 8, 2025 @LSternFineArt
Magical Forms
Lorser Feitelson
STERN LOUIS FINE ARTS
9002 Melrose Avenue West Hollywood, CA 90069
Phone: 310-276-0147 Fax: 310-276-7740 e-mail:
OVERVIEW :
Louis Stern Fine Arts, located in West Hollywood’s Design District, focuses on Mid-Century West Coast Geometric Abstraction and represents the artists who defined and epitomized the California Hard Edge movement: Lorser Feitelson, Helen Lundeberg, and Karl Benjamin. The gallery also holds works by other influential Mid-Century abstract painters including John McLaughlin, Frederick Hammersley, Roger Kuntz, June Harwood, and Ynez Johnston. A stable of contemporary artists including Richard Wilson and Mark Leonard along with sculptors Knopp Ferro and Cecilia Miguez and photographers Magali Nougarède and Jean-Francois Spricigo supplement the gallery's historic program. In addition to its exhibition program, Louis Stern Fine Arts has had a long and successful involvement in the secondary market, with a special concentration in Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, Modern and Latin American art. As director of The Alfredo Ramos Martínez Research Project, Stern oversees the development of the catalogue raisonné for the artist.
January 25 > March 8, 2025 @LSternFineArt
Lorser Feitelson (1898-1978) Magical Forms, 1945 oil on canvas 30 x 36 inches; 76.2 x 91.4 centimeters LSFA #01508
Lorser Feitelson (1898-1978) Untitled (Mean Forms), 1949 oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches; 76.2 x 101.6 centimeters LSFA# 00233
ABOUT ARTISTS : Lorser Feitelson
From roughly 1940 to 1960, Feitelson embarked upon a remarkable exploration of abstract forms. Rooted in the figurative world, Feitelson’s compositions evolved from the organic into the geometric. Known as Abstract Classicism, or Hard Edge, this period of Feitelson’s work offers unique imagery that maintains the profound sense of space and form associated with traditional Classicism. He was one of the four artists featured in the landmark 1959 Abstract Classicists exhibition curated by Jules Langsner at the Los Angeles County Museum in Exposition Park. As time went on, Feitelson began reducing his compositions, focusing on the essentials. From the mid-1960s, he ventured into Minimalism, creating sleek paintings comprised of sensuous lines set against solid backgrounds of color. These works were a culmination of Feitelson’s experience and represent decades of artistic development.
Lorser Feitelson
Lorser Feitelson (1898-1978) Magical Forms, 1947 oil on canvas 36 x 30 inches; 91.4 x 76.2 centimeters LSFA# 01489
ABOUT EXHIBITION : Magical Forms
Louis Stern Fine Arts is pleased to present Lorser Feitelson: Magical Forms, which features works from Feitelson's 1940s series of the same name. Representing an important transitional moment in Feitelson's career, these works invent uncanny abstract forms that provide a conduit for emotional expression of the inexplicable. This series, in Feitelson's words, "metaphorically expresses the deep disturbance of our time: ominously magnificent and terrifying events, hurtling menacingly from the unforeseeable."
ABOUT EXHIBITION : Magical Forms
Louis Stern Fine Arts is pleased to present Lorser Feitelson: Magical Forms, which features works from Feitelson's 1940s series of the same name. Representing an important transitional moment in Feitelson's career, these works invent uncanny abstract forms that provide a conduit for emotional expression of the inexplicable. This series, in Feitelson's words, "metaphorically expresses the deep disturbance of our time: ominously magnificent and terrifying events, hurtling menacingly from the unforeseeable."
ABOUT ARTISTS : Lorser Feitelson
From roughly 1940 to 1960, Feitelson embarked upon a remarkable exploration of abstract forms. Rooted in the figurative world, Feitelson’s compositions evolved from the organic into the geometric. Known as Abstract Classicism, or Hard Edge, this period of Feitelson’s work offers unique imagery that maintains the profound sense of space and form associated with traditional Classicism. He was one of the four artists featured in the landmark 1959 Abstract Classicists exhibition curated by Jules Langsner at the Los Angeles County Museum in Exposition Park. As time went on, Feitelson began reducing his compositions, focusing on the essentials. From the mid-1960s, he ventured into Minimalism, creating sleek paintings comprised of sensuous lines set against solid backgrounds of color. These works were a culmination of Feitelson’s experience and represent decades of artistic development.
Lorser Feitelson Artist's site : https://www.thefeitelsonlundebergartfoundation.org/
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Artist's CITY :CALIFORNIA CA
Artist's COUNTRY :U.S.A.
Gallery Opening Hours : Tuesday - Friday 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Saturday 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m
Opening reception :January 25, 5–7pm
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