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Quint Contemporary Art is pleased to be participating in ART LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY

Opening Preview Thursday, January 19
Barker Hanger – Santa Monica, CA

Work will be on display by PETER ALEXANDER | ADAM BELT | MEL BOCHNER | KELSEY BROOKES | JOHANNES GIRARDONI | THOMAS GLASSFORD | FRANCESCO LONGENECKER | JEAN LOWE | LEE MATERAZZI | RYAN MCGINNESS | EVE SUSSMAN | THÓR VIGFÚSSON |

Art Los Angeles Contemporary – now in its third year, is the International Contemporary Art fair of the West Coast.

“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 will be participating in this year’s ART SAN DIEGO | Contemporary Art Fair. Come by and visit us at booths 25 & 33!

September 2 – 5, 2010
Hilton San Diego Bayfront San Diego, CA

ADAM BELT | MEL BOCHNER | KELSEY BROOKS | STEPHEN P. CURRY | ROMAN DE SALVO | MANNY FARBER | THOMAS GLASSFORD | JAY JOHNSON | JEAN LOWE | KIM MACCONNEL | RYAN MCGINNESS | JOHN MCLAUGHLIN | ROY MCMAKIN | TAVARES STRACHAN | and more!

QUINT: Three Decades of Contemporary Art

at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido Museum

August 15 – December 31, 2009

Special preview Saturday, August 15th from 6 – 9PM

340 N. Escondido Blvd.
Escondido, CA 92025
www.artcenter.org

Cocktails, hors d’ oeuvres, entertainment & live music.
$10 per person for non-members, free to Center Members.

RSVP to (760) 839-4120

The California Center for the Arts, Escondido Museum is pleased to present Quint: Three Decades of Contemporary Art. The exhibition, based on the program of one of San Diego County’s most influential galleries, will open on August 15th and continue through December 31st, 2009. Works in the exhibition, the majority of which have been borrowed from Southern California museums and private collections, present an extraordinary survey of the range of regional, national, and international artists supported and promoted by Quint Gallery over nearly thirty years.

Since opening his first gallery in La Jolla in 1981, Mark Quint adopted a unique, almost nomadic approach to the business of contemporary art. Rather than establishing itself in a permanent location and then expanding over time, Quint Gallery would more often adapt its spaces and program according to the needs of the artists it was interested in presenting. From formal gallery and raw open spaces in downtown San Diego, to large industrial workspaces for artists near Miramar Naval Air Base, to unexpected (and often elegant) spaces secluded in back alleys in Hillcrest or La Jolla, Quint Gallery has maintained the flexibility to represent artists employing a wide variety of practices, mediums, and formats.

Fifty seems like a reasonable number of artists for an exhibition meant to offer a mini-panorama of the San Diego art scene. It should be said that this show at Quint Contemporary Art is not a look at the wider regional scene that would encompass Tijuana; its title, “Homing In: An Exhibition of 50 San Diego Artists,” can be taken literally, for the most part.

One of the artists – and a very good one – does live in Tijuana: Iana Quesnell. But she emerged and went to grad school in San Diego, so the name of the exhibition doesn’t mislead much.

There’s a single work by each artist on view at Quint, and one might suspect that the show would be weighted toward the local ones that usually show there. You’d be correct in this line of thinking.

Nonetheless, Quint has long shown at least some of the best local artists, such as Jean Lowe, Kim MacConnel, Patricia Patterson and Jay Johnson. Happily, many of the picks from outside its stable in “Homing In” are also good ones.