Ronnie Landfield
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Ronnie Landfield in his New York studio
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Ronnie Landfield
Findlay Galleries is proud to present an exhibition of Ronnie Landfield. James Borynack, Findlay Galleries’ C years of representation and exhibitions of Ronnie Lan an exhibition of his most recent paintings at our flag abstractions continue to be highly desired. He is a w practiced abstract expressionism in his early twenties movement. Since, he has dedicated his life to his work, voice with effortless sophistication, utilizing form, size,
Ronnie Landfield has garnered much critical acclaim Ara Osterweil stated, “Although nearly all of his imag extends the vital dialogue between landscape and a Richard Diebenkorn, Helen Frankenthaler, and Joan Mi “Ronnie Landfield, one of the greatest living painters, c 1960s and maintains its fervent artistic purity...[His wor paint, he finds beauty in color and form, with love and powers of painting, Landfield offers an experience bot
Landfield studied at the Kansas City Art Institute, the Sa in New York. In a reaction to the all-over, process-orien his abstractions from nature, incorporating the horizon staining. His works have become icons of the modernis Whitney Museum of American Art invited Landfield to of 1969 and 1973. In 1969, Landfield began showing w architect Philip Johnson donated his important canvas
Today, Landfield’s work is in almost 60 museums, includ Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, th institutions.
f recent works by American Color Field abstractionist Chairman and CEO commented, “After many successful ndfield’s works, Findlay Galleries is proud to present gship location in Palm Beach. Landfield’s Color Field well-known and accomplished artist who studied and s during the late 1960s at the height of the abstract , and he has continued to hone and develop his artistic and color in a progressive yet retrospective way.”
since his artistic career began. In 2020, Art Forum’s ges invoke the metaphysical, his approach nonetheless abstraction explored by mid-century pioneers such as itchell.” In the same year, art critic Dana Gordon wrote, comes out of the Color Field milieu of New York in the rk is] free from preconceived ideas of what and how to d generosity. Upholding the autonomous and emotive h deep and uplifting.”
an Francisco Art Institute, and the Art Students League nted abstraction of the mid-century, Landfield painted n as he used seemingly random effects of pouring and st Color Field movement. In 1967, at the age of 20, The o exhibit and later included his work in their biennials with David Whitney Gallery in Soho. In the same year, Diamond Lake to the Museum of Modern Art.
ding the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of he Art Institute of Chicago and other important public
Standing Clear acrylic on canvas 90 x 73 in. FG© 140544
(cover) The Light of Day acrylic on canvas 42 x 91 in. FG© 140545
Passage in Blue | acrylic on canvas 81 x 41 in. | FG© 140539
Rover of Return | acrylic on canvas 91 x 61 in. | FG© 140546
Beyond Choices acrylic on canvas 88 x 60 in. FG© 140541
Velvet Gulch acrylic on canvas 31 x 56 in. FG© 140532
Towards the Light | acrylic on canvas | 91 x 116 in. | FG© 140549
The World Beyond acrylic on canvas 91 x 77 in. FG© 140548
Landfield is a fearless dualist. He seduces the eye with sensual landscape possibilities while managing to insist, with delectable obstinacy, on the optical purism of his painterly agenda with pristine bars to offset his effulgent stains. – David Cohen, Art Critical
Blue Shadows acrylic on canvas 90 x 49 in. FG© 140542
Road To Freedom | acrylic on canvas | 60 x 75 in. | FG© 140537
(below) Turn Toward Freedom acrylic on canvas 33 x 23 in. FG© 140528
(above) Cloaked Angel acrylic on canvas 44 x 33 in. FG© 140529
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