Gary Lang: SONNING 58
Upcoming exhibition
Overview
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 8, 5:00-8:00pm
Please join us for the opening reception of Gary Lang: SONNING 58 at QUINT ONE as part of Second Saturdays, alongside new exhibitions opening at Bread & Salt and Best Practice.
Lang’s tondo paintings often vibrate from a central point, with a harmoniously hard-edged gradient of colors moving towards the outer reaches of the surface. As much a physical practice as a mental one, Lang's layers trick the eye with slight gradients that pulsate as each painterly circular line is carried out with precision and patience grounded in the present moment. Gary Lang is prolific artist, with a practice that comprises several long-standing series including Concentric Circles and Squares, Zipper Paintings, Stars, Word Paintings, as well as a sculptural practice, creating work in a vein of repetition that is similar to the practice of meditation.
Originally from Los Angeles, CA, Lang studied at California Institute of Art and Yale University. In the 1970’s he lived in Barcelona on a Fulbright/Hayes Travel Grant and lived in New York and Los Angeles before eventually settling in Ojai, CA, where he currently resides. Lang’s work are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Portland Museum of Art, ME; and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI; Gemeentemuseum den Haag, The Netherlands; Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI; Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA; Plains Art Museum, Moorehead, MN; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; Museum of Art Contemporain, Angers, France. In 2015 he received the Arts & Letters Award, and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in NYC, and in 2017 he received the Francis J. Greenburger Award.
Originally from Los Angeles, CA, Lang studied at California Institute of Art and Yale University. In the 1970’s he lived in Barcelona on a Fulbright/Hayes Travel Grant and lived in New York and Los Angeles before eventually settling in Ojai, CA, where he currently resides. Lang’s work are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Portland Museum of Art, ME; and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI; Gemeentemuseum den Haag, The Netherlands; Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI; Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA; Plains Art Museum, Moorehead, MN; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; Museum of Art Contemporain, Angers, France. In 2015 he received the Arts & Letters Award, and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in NYC, and in 2017 he received the Francis J. Greenburger Award.
Selected Works
