Esoteric Survey

The Reform / the Landing market was a lot of fun and some great things exchanged hands. I did a horrible job documenting it but I did get a handful of photos. Many thanks to Gerard for hosting! Dave Harker Modern for All Midcenturian Errant Objects Dan Chavkin The Modern Era PCH Modern Ken wasn't selling, but it's always nice to see funkismodern Twiggy sniffing the merchandise Since the market was inspired by Heath, Gerard provided It's Its, a San Francisco Tradition. 

  Hun Chung Lee, Curated by Bianca Chen at JF Chen Jonathan Ryan at The Landing  ‘Implicit Explicit’, curated by Meaghan Roddy at Hauser & Wirth

Leslie Kerr in the Sixties at the Landing Leslie Kerr was a prominent figure in the California avant-garde art scene of the 50s and 60s; he had a solo show at Los Angeles’s Ferus Gallery in 1958, then moved up to San Francisco, where, between 1960 and 1966, he had five solo shows at the Dilexi Gallery; in 1962, he was included in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s seminal exhibition Fifty California Artists. In 1964, Kerr moved to New York, where he had solo shows at Odyssia Gallery and Bianchini Gallery, was in a group show at Green Gallery, and was included in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s annual exhibition of 1967.  Kerr built bright, sharp-edged paintings that reference the illustration art and advertising popular during his youth as a way to, in the words of curator Laura Whitcomb, “suggest that modern iconography had replaced systems of religiosity.” Kerr employed a remarkable precision in creating paintings that feature forms that are sometimes perfectly recogn...

Radiant Abstractions, a  retrospective of paintings by Bay Area artist Richard Bowman (1918-2001) at The Landing . In the 1950s and 60s, Bowman pioneered the use of  fluorescent paints, incorporating them into wildly energetic abstract  works profoundly influenced by scientific phenomena. Gerard O'Brien, the owner of The Landing and a longtime friend. I made him pose. An early Bowman hanging in the office. Bowman  was a pivotal figure in the art scene in Northern California in  mid-twentieth century; he had solo shows at the San Francisco Museum of  Art (now called SFMOMA) in 1961 and 1970, and a two-person show there in  1959, with Gordon Onslow Ford; his first retrospective in the region  was at Stanford in 1956. In 1962, two of Bowman’s paintings were  included in the seminal exhibition 50 California Artists at the  Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. (Bowman was also included  in the Sao...

Ken Nack / Michael Arntz Santa Barbara: 1960s - 1980s September 22 - November 3, 2018 Opening Reception: Saturday September 22, 4-8pm More information at The Landing Monumental Arntz From the Creative Directors of Daft Punk, JF Chen presents Hervet Manufacturier, a limited edition collection of furniture created by cousins Cedric and Nico Hervet. Each piece is an edition of 12, and made in France, the two Hervet cousins design furniture under meticulous respect for the traditional techniques of carpentry.

Objects USA booth at the 2016  Palm Springs Modernism  show and sale. Delivered Dharam Damama The Damamas are the coolest. They have cool stuff too.  Red Modern from Phoenix Reform Gallery Sputnik Modern from Dallas brought some power inventory. Lisa Cliff Collection San Diego's finest Billiings Auction Billiings also had a display of work by Rafe Affleck in the lobby. Keep an eye on these guys. They're digging up some cool stuff. The Landing was showing J.B. Blunk at the Fine Art Fair , which is in the same building.  John Mason and Craig Kaufman at  Frank Lloyd Gallery   John Mason They were also showing Larry Bell...in the flesh. He was given a lifetime achievement award . Lacoste Gallery  had some great clay. The monster in the front is by Karen Karnes.  There were a number of contemporary paintings of modern architecture, including...