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“Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.” – Aristotle

Quint Contemporary Art is pleased to announce a group exhibition of paintings, sculptures, photographs, video and mixed media works by artists Birgir Andrésson, Adam Belt, Stephen Curry, Roman de Salvo, Andy Diaz Hope in collaboration with Laurel Roth, Iran do Espírito Santo, Vernon Fisher, Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Maiko Haruki, Anya Gallaccio, Andy Goldsworthy, Roy McMakin, Lincoln Schatz and James Turrell. The exhibition, DISSECTING NATURE, will open with a public reception on Saturday, January 14 from 6 to 8 PM.

Dissecting Nature is an exhibition of artwork that uses man-made materials to emulate nature or natural materials to create artistic constructions.

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.

Mark Quint still remembers his first collaboration with Manny Farber in 1984, when Quint’s gallery was located downtown. Farber was infamous for working up to the last minute, and he finished the show’s final work about an hour before the opening.

“We hauled it upstairs, and it was still totally wet,” Quint recalled. “He had images of seafood, lobsters, mussels, and these were all things Patricia (Patterson, his wife and collaborator) had either cooked or they had bought. And before he ate them, he painted them.”

As was his practice, Farber worked on a flat, horizontal surface and would stage his paintings using tiny figures, scraps of paper, rebar, leaves, vegetables, fish and countless other everyday, mundane items. But sometimes, as he was painting, often right next to the item, a piece of something, perhaps a melon seed or a fish bone, would get caught in the paint and become part of the painting.

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