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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.

“I believe the search is more important than the Holy Grail,” says New York–based artist Ryan McGinness, whose vivid paintings and works on paper are collected by major institutions, like the Museum of Modern Art and the Cincinnati Art Museum. McGinness is best known for his hypercolor silkscreen canvases that break down symbols taken from urban signage and advertising into their most graphic forms. For his “Women” series, the 39-year-old has turned his focus to the most classic of painterly subjects: the female figure.

The series is a departure for McGinness, who started out in Virginia Beach, Virginia, drawing logos on T-shirts for his skateboarder friends. While his work is now collected by the industry’s boldface names, including Charles Saatchi and Jeffrey Deitch (his former dealer), he has never lost his renegade spirit. In 2003, he put on a show titled “Sponsorship” at his friend Shepard Fairey’s gallery, where he asked corporate sponsors to give money in exchange for seeing their logo hung on the wall.

As various species of artists go, Ryan McGinness seems happy playing the party animal.

In New York not so long ago he threw a party in his studio every Friday night for 50 weeks in a row. (“50 parties. 50 themes. 50 weeks” his tag line went, with themes ranging from “search party” to “prom.”) In Miami this last December he staged a show of glow-in-the-dark nude paintings at a strip club. So when it came time to think about exhibiting his work in L.A., the 39-year-old with the energy of a 19-year-old did not limit himself to galleries.

Along with planning four different gallery shows here from late May through June — featuring paintings, sculptures, works on paper and a high-concept project — he has planned “a barbecue lecture” for the Giant Robot store on Sawtelle Boulevard, art installations for both Standard hotels in L.A., and a three-night drawing performance at the hotel’s Sunset Strip location that begins June 1.

Quint Contemporary Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by San Diego based artist ROBERT IRWIN. This will be Irwin’s first gallery exhibition on the West Coast since his “One Wall Removed” project at the Malinda Wyatt Gallery in Venice, CA (1980). The exhibition, Works in Progress, will change every two weeks during the run of the exhibit from March 19th through May 1st. A reception will be held on Friday, March 19th from 6 to 8 PM.

Robert Irwin as an artist, theoretician, and teacher, has over the last 50 years, played a pivotal role in the development of the unique tenants of Modern Art. Through his own personal Husserlian reduction, his work became the precursor for art outside the frame and object. This includes installation art, light and space art, art in public spaces, site specific art, and what he now terms, conditional art which draws the focus to the relationship and role of the sentient being vis-à-vis the cognitive self.

Quint Contemporary Art is pleased to exhibit new works by artist Johannes Girardoni. This will be the first solo exhibition for the New York based artist at Quint Contemporary Art. The exhibition opens on October 23rd and will run through November 14th, 2009. There will be a public reception on Friday, October 23rd from 6 to 8PM.

Johannes Girardoni is an Austrian-born, American-based sculptor and installation artist. Girardoni’s works are reductive investigations at the intersection of sculpture and painting, through which he explores the continuously shifting relationship between reality and image. His material vocabulary – found wood, plywood, wax, pigment, light, enamel and plexiglass – and its physical constellation, become both the carrier of an explicitly painterly event, while also being the foundation of an immaterial phenomenon. His orchestration of material and light, presence and absence, things found and things formed, all resist clear fixation, thereby maintaining and creating works with their own non-derivable reality.

Quint Contemporary Art is pleased to present Aaron T Stephan’s piece Building Houses / Hiding Under Rocks. This will be Aaron’s first solo show at Quint Contemporary Art. The exhibition will run from January 4 through February 2, 2008, with a public reception for the artist on January 4th from 6 to 8pm. The artist will be in attendance and the public is welcome.

Aaron T Stephan has spent the last year scouring library depositories to collect over 15,000 discarded books from across New England. The piece Building Houses/Hiding Under Rocks is the result of intense sorting, measuring, cutting, photographing, and arranging of this eclectic library of discards. The result is a monumental sculptural work, which edifies the texts into a self-contained building with a surprising interior space. The work explores ideas ranging from contemporary philosophical issues to the basic need for shelter. Building Houses/Hiding Under Rocks challenges notions of self, loss, and understanding.

Stephan is a Portland, Maine resident who is originally from Western New York. He made his home in Maine in 2000 to attend the graduate program at the Maine College of Art, where he graduated with an MFA in 2002. He was the recipient of the 2002 Marguerite Zorach fellowship to attend the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was the 2005 Louise Bourgeois fellow at YADDO in Saratoga Springs, NY. Stephen is a recipient of the 2008 John Michale Kohler Arts Center residence program. His work was featured in the 2003 Portland Museum of Art Biennial and the 2006 Center for Maine Contemporary Art Biennial. Other recent exhibitions include Whitney Art Works, ICON Gallery, SPACE, the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, The Hay Gallery, The Filament Gallery, The Center for Maine Contemporary Art, The Nave Gallery in Boston, the DUMBO Center for the Arts in Brooklyn, and Northwestern Connecticut Community College Art Gallery. Stephan has also completed 5 public commissions in the state of Maine including LIFT, a dramatic work that at first appears to be a normal size table and set of chairs but upon closer inspection reveals the furniture is twenty-foot tall, sited in the new Joel and Linda Abromson Community Center in Portland, Maine. He is currently working on a public commission in Lewiston, Maine.