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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.

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 pleased to present work by four artists from Iceland. The work brings together some of the finest aspects of Iceland’s cultural heritage, in particular it’s literary and linguistic trademark. The style used by these artists is concise, clear and direct. Only the essentials have been retained. The exhibition opens with a reception on March 21st and runs through April 26, 2008.

The mid-century preoccupation with poetry and storytelling forms an important background to the development of Icelandic conceptual art—characterized as “poetic-conceptualism” within Iceland’s arts community this provides an opportunity to consider the ways in which Icelandic artists make use of Icelandic literary traditions within the context of post-conceptual practices.

Birgir Andrésson (b. 1955) The exhibition will showcase “portrait” text works by the artist. Born in the Westmann Islands in 1955, Andrésson went on to study visual arts at the Icelandic Academy of the Arts and then received a graduate degree from the Jan Van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht in Holland.