Spring 2021
Laura Owens,
Untitled (2016). Courtesy of the artist; Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, Rome; Sadie Coles HQ, London; and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne,
This exhibition is a homecoming of sorts for Laura Owens. The wide-ranging and experimental painter grew up close to Cleveland in Norwalk, Ohio, and spent many hours exploring the Cleveland Museum of Art’s encyclopedic collections as a teenager. Owens, who has been based in Los Angeles for the past three decades, has developed this unique exhibition with high school students involved with the Cleveland museum’s Arts Mastery program.
The Transformer Station is located at 1460 West 29th Street, Cleveland
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Kenturah Davis, Mary Kelly, and Agnes Martin
Agnes Martin, The Peach, 1964. Graphite and ink on paper mounted on board, 30.5 x 30.5 cm, 12 x 12 in. Image courtesy the artist and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London. Photo: Todd White.
LONDON
.-Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is presenting Kenturah Davis, Mary Kelly and Agnes Martin in Lines of Thought, an exhibition exploring the poetics and politics of language. Important unseen work by Kelly and new text drawings and weavings by Davis enter into conversation with the hand-drawn lines and gridded compositions of Martins works on paper.
Lines of Thought is the first UK presentation of work by young LA-based artist, Kenturah Davis. Four works (2020) from her series, Limen, pair portraiture with weaving, expressing how individuals are inseparable from the ideas and language that shape identity. Each portrait takes shape through a meticulous process of rubbing pencil across em
Print
Atmospheric fields of luminous color emanating from rectangular panels that appear to be torn paintings. Little tabletop stage sets for enigmatic dramas, enacted by doll-like figures and encased in plexiglass boxes. Life-size sculptures of classical figures and architectural elements in disarray. Lush, floral bouquets painted in bright, eccentric colors hot pink sunflowers, watery blue lily pads.
Roland Reiss cut a wide swath in his art over his long life, moving between painting and sculpture, abstraction and figuration, as his interests shifted over a 60-year career. If there was a through-line in such a diverse array of work, it was a simple commitment to engaging a viewer in the adventures of exploratory perception.
Fran Blowitz
Fran Blowitz, who with her husband John owned and operated the Gazette Newspapers from 1981 to 2004, died in November.
After purchasing the paper, Fran and John developed Gazette Newspapers into a two-paper, 66,000 combined-circulation business employing 20 people.
Fran and John were co-publishers, with Fran handling the business end of the operation. She worked tirelessly to keep the business in the black. John said many times that he might be the public face of the
Grunion, but that Fran was the brains behind the operation.
During that time, Fran came up with something she called Valentine s Date Night, which grew to a fundraiser for the heart programs at Long Beach s three major hospitals raising around $40,000 each event.