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Legendary Art Critic Donald Kuspit Makes a Rare Appearance as Curator at Southern Californias Most Original Venue for Leading California Artists, Gallery C
Kuspit will Illustrate his Controversial Theory of 'New Old Masters Addressed in his acclaimed book The End of Art"
(PRWEB) December 20, 2004 -- Acclaimed art critic and professor Donald Kuspit curates an unprecedented exhibition of 21 California artists to illustrate the theory put forth in his book The End of Art". Kuspit suggests that the future of art lies with the 'New Old Masters-a movement with a strong focus on traditional methods and modes of art-making that is gaining momentum in the art world. California New Old Masters is an exhibition of contemporary paintings and sculptures that pay homage to the detail and skill of the great Renaissance artists.
Artists in the show include Chester Arnold, Sandow Birk, Timothy Cummings, Guy Diehl, James Doolin, Kenny Harris, F. Scott Hess, Li Huayi, Benjamin Bryce Kelley, Margaret Lazzari, David Ligare, Enjeong Noh, Ron Pastucha, Ron Rizk, Richard Ryan, Robert Schwartz, Roni Stretch, Jon Swihart, Masami Teraoki, Marc Trujillo, Ruth Weisberg and Peter Zokosky.
Donald Kuspit is an art critic and a professor of art history and philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Kuspit is a contributing editor at Artforum, Sculpture,and New Art Examiner magazines, the editor of Art Criticism, and the editor of a series on American Art and Art Criticism for Cambridge University Press. He has written more than twenty books, including Redeeming Art: Critical Reveries (Allworth Press), Daniel Brush, Joseph Raffael, Chihuly, and Idiosyncratic Identities: Artists at the End of the Avant-Garde.
California New Old Masters opens with a reception at Gallery C on Thursday, January 27, 2005 at 7:00 p.m. The exhibition will remain on view until March 26, 2005.
About the Gallery: Gallery C has transformed the soaring spaces of the 1923 Bijou Theater into a dynamic new gallery. With nearly 6,500 square feet of exhibition space and ceilings that soar up to 28 feet, Gallery C has a luxury of space and light not often offered in many galleries. A sensitive update of the historic Bijou Theater has been accomplished by the acclaimed architectural collaborative, Graft, whose work for the recent SITE Sante Fe was recognized by the International Association of Art Critics as best exhibition design" of 2001/2002.
Gallery C, 1225 Hermosa Avenue in Hermosa Beach, California
Gallery hours are:
Wednesday, Friday & Saturday, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Thursday, 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, Noon to 5:00 p.m.
Or by appointment
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