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Quint Contemporary Art is pleased to exhibit new work by Icelandic artist Thór Vigfússon. This will be the first solo exhibition of the artist’s work at Quint Contemporary Art and will include approximately 16 new glass paintings. Vigfússon was included in a 2008 group exhibition at QCA featuring prominent Icelandic artists. Thór Vigfússon: New Glass Paintings, will open with a reception on Saturday, November 19 from 6 to 8 PM. The reception is open to the public and the artist will be in attendance.

For many years, Thór Vigfússon (b. 1954) has been investigating the interaction between art and its surroundings through works made of glass, plexi, mirrors, and formica. He primarily works with colored glass and mirrors, which allow for engagement between the work and the viewer. The misleading simplicity of Vigfússon’s works are constantly mutating on an intimate plane with the viewer. The artwork creates a dialogue with architectural design through their simple geometric forms and pure colors.

Quint Contemporary Art is very pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Peter Alexander, Mary Corse, and Robert Irwin. These three artists are all associated with the Light and Space movement in Southern California during the 1960’s and 1970’s. This will be the first exhibition at Quint Contemporary Art for Los Angeles based artists Peter Alexander and Mary Corse and the second exhibition for San Diego-based artist Robert Irwin. There will be a public reception on Friday, September 23 from 6 – 8PM. The artists will be in attendance.

“During the 1960s and 1970s, light became a primary medium for a loosely affiliated group of artists working in Greater Los Angeles who were more intrigued by questions of perception than by the notion of crafting discrete objects. Whether by directing the flow of natural light, embedding artificial light within objects or architecture, or by playing with light through the use of reflective, translucent, or transparent materials, these artists each created situations capable of stimulating heightened sensory awareness in the receptive viewer.”
– Robin Clark PhD, Curator Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

Quint Contemporary Art is pleased to be participating in ART PLATFORM – LOS ANGELES.

October 1 – 3, 2011
Opening Preview Friday, September 30
L.A. Mart®

Work will be on display by ADAM BELT | MEL BOCHNER | THOMAS GLASSFORD | RYAN MCGINNESS | ROY MCMAKIN | TAVARES STRACHAN | and more!

The Art Platform – Los Angeles art fair will demonstrate the rich and diverse cultural landscape of Southern California and underscore Los Angeles’ influential position within the contemporary art world.

Quint Contemporary Art will be participating in this year’s ART SAN DIEGO | Contemporary Art Fair.

Come by and visit us at booth 55 where artist Jean Lowe will ‘open’ a fully operational art/product marketplace, wherein visitors may purchase editioned and unique items, all hand made by the artist. These products will be priced to “SELL, SELL, SELL” with SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY. Many of the products for sale in this temporary gallery-store mimic those products depicted in the artists paintings: packaged cookies, books, boxed cereal and other banal goods, made from enamel and cardboard or ceramic. Also on display will be new paintings by the artist.

For ticketing information and to receive free Gallery Guest tickets click HERE.

September 1 – 4, 2011
Hilton San Diego Bayfront San Diego, CA

Quint Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the publication of Here and There, Back and Forth, the most complete survey yet of work by artist Patricia Patterson, documenting the artist’s career and recent retrospective at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido. The public is invited to a launch party for the catalogue on September 17th starting at 6pm at the gallery. The event will then proceed to D.G. Wills Books, a block from the gallery at 7461 Girard Avenue, for a discussion by writers: Sally Yard, Kent Jones, Robert Polito, Robert Walsh and Leah Ollman. Patterson will be in attendance to sign catalogues. The event will be held at Quint Contemporary Art, 7547 Girard Avenue, La Jolla, CA.
& D.G. Wills Books, 7461 Girard Avenue, La Jolla, CA

Sally Yard – Professor of art history at the University of San Diego, writer and curator.

Kent Jones – Film critic, filmmaker and programmer who lives in New York city.

Robert Polito – Director of the Graduate Writing Program at The New School in New York, writer and editor.

Robert Walsh – Writer and legal affairs editor for Vanity Fair.

Leah Ollman – Art critic for the Los Angeles Times and Art in America.

Quint Contemporary Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of artwork from the estate of Manny Farber, opening July 23 and running through September 17, 2011. There will be a public reception on Saturday, July 23rd from 6 – 8 PM. Manny Farber began showing at Quint Contemporary Art in 1985, and this will be the seventeenth solo exhibition for the artist at the gallery.

The exhibition, comprised of approximately 20 selected drawings and paintings, will feature key works completed over the course of Farber’s painting career. The works will highlight Farber’s passion for painting, film and the visual world in general. His cultivation of a tabletop working process can be traced from his earliest paintings of the everyday objects on his desk, like cigarettes and candy, to his later paintings with images including everything from art books, rebar and flowers from the garden of his wife, Patricia. He once described his art by saying: “…what I’m doing in paintings is pretty much creating movies. I’m lining up objects and lining up paths through painting, pretty close to the way a movie director makes a movie.” The direction of his painting career will be charted from the mid-1970s to the early-2000s.