297 TENTH AVE
MARCH 5–APRIL 11, 2020
OPENING THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2020
Kasmin is pleased to present Valley of Gold: Southern California and the Phantasmagoric, curated by Sonny Ruscha Granade and Harmony Murphy. The exhibition “explores the aesthetic legacy of the European surrealists and others who worked with similar sensibilities on the art of Southern California. Examining the influence of this charged period, the exhibition traces how its effects percolated through later movements such as California abstraction, conceptual art, and Light and Space. “
Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg are each represented in the exhibition by two paintings.
From the press release for the exhibition: …” Helen Lundeberg—one of Los Angeles’ most significant post-surrealist artists, who published The New Classicism Manifesto in 1934 along with her husband Lorser Feitelson—recalls the other-worldly natural surroundings of the region in Untitled Composition (Landscape) (1948). “
Untitled Composition (Landscape), 1948, oil on board, 10 1/4 x 19 1/4 in/ 26 x 48.9 cm, The Feitelson/Lundeberg Art Foundation, Courtesy Louis Stern Fine Arts
Selma, 1957, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in. / 76.2 x 61 cm, The Feitelson/Lundeberg Art Foundation, Courtesy Louis Stern Fine Arts
Paolo and Francesca, 1943, oil on canvas, 36 ¼ x 61 in. / 92.08 x 154.9 cm, The Feitelson/Lundeberg Art Foundation, Courtesy Louis Stern Fine Arts
Allegory of the Golden Apple, 1943, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 in. / 91.4 x 121.9 cm, The Feitelson/Lundeberg Art Foundation, Courtesy Louis Stern Fine Arts