Lorser Feitelson
10 Paintings Los Angeles The 1960s
Washburn Gallery, New York
May 9 – July 21, 2006
The Washburn Gallery presents the first New York exhibition of paintings by the California artist, Lorser Feitelson (1898-1978), since his Whitney Museum Memorial in 1979. Lorser Feitelson's previous New York exhibition was held at The Daniel Gallery in 1925. The exhibition at the Washburn Gallery concentrates on Lorser Feitelson's linear paintings of the 1960s: their perfect surfaces, technicolors and remote elegance suggest the emerging Los Angeles art scene in those years. James Fitzsimmons wrote about Lorser Feitelson in the 1977 October – November issue of Art International and in particular of the 1960s as follows:
In 1963, Feitelson began the series of minimal line paintings and found himself so intrigued with the quality of the lines as lines rather than as descriptions of form that he decided to concentrate exclusively on the linear element. In the series which followed this decision, a process of minimalization occurred inwhich form and color were greatly simplified. Feitelson did not consider this reduction as an end in itself, but rather as a means of eliminating elements which might otherwise detract from the all-important line.
WASHBURN GALLERY
20 West 57 Street, New York, NY 10019
