Sonia Gechtoff, Abstract Expressionist Painter, Dies at 91
The artist was a leading light of the San Francisco art scene beginning in the 1950s.
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When the legendary Ferus Gallery set up shop in Los Angeles in 1957, it didn't have much to its name but the collective ambition and dedication of its founders, artist Ed Kienholz and curator Walter…
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From the Archives: A Brief History of Walter Hopps and Edward Kienholz’s Trailblazing Ferus Gallery
“These artists may not hit pay dirt, but they are ready to risk embarkation on strange waters,” Jules Langsner wrote in 1958, referring to the artists on the roster of Los Angeles’s Ferus…
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The third iteration of the Hammer Museum’s Made in LA biennial—organized by the museum’s Aram Moshayedi and the Renaissance Society’s Hamza Walker—proposed a current art scene that is much more divers…
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The notion that collectors sit atop the hierarchy of today’s art world is axiomatic. They build private museums and control the boards of traditional ones. Through their acquisitions…
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The Cool Revival: Sonia Gechtoff in San Francisco
Tough, straight-talking abstract painter Sonia Gechtoff is currently being rescued from ill-deserved obscurity, swept up in a wave of fervor for Abstract Expressionism sparked by MoMA's more narrowly…
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