Ronnie Landfield

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Ronnie Landfield
Lyrical Abstraction

Ronnie Landfield (born January 9, 1947) is an American

Color Field painting, and Abstract expressionism), and he was represented by the David Whitney Gallery and the André Emmerich
Gallery.

Landfield is best known for his abstract landscape paintings, and has held more than seventy solo exhibitions and more than two hundred group exhibitions. In 2011 he was described by the LewAllen Gallerie as "at the forefront of contemporary art...one of the best painters in America."[1][2]

Early career

Born and raised in

Hard-edge abstractions primarily painted with acrylic. He briefly attended the University of California, Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute before returning to New York in July 1965.[3]

Mid period

From 1964 to 1966 he experimented with

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Ronnie Landfield and Border Painting 8, 1966, photo by Tom Gormley NYC. July 1966

In late 1966 through 1968 he began exhibiting his paintings and works on paper in leading galleries and museums. Landfield moved into his loft at 94

hard-edge borders, and painted unstretched canvases on the floor for the first time. Briefly in 1967-1968 he worked part-time for Dick Higgins and the Something Else Press.[5]

Landfield was part of a large circle of young artists who had come to Manhattan during the 1960s. Peter Young, Dan Christensen, Peter Reginato, Eva Hesse, Carlos Villa, William Pettet, David R. Prentice, Kenneth Showell, David Novros, Joan Jonas, Michael Steiner, Frosty Myers, Tex Wray, Larry Zox, Larry Poons, Robert Povlich, Neil Williams, Carl Gliko, Billy Hoffman, Lee Lozano, Pat Lipsky, John Griefen, Brice Marden, James Monte, John Chamberlain, Donald Judd, Frank Stella, Carl Andre, Dan Graham, Robert Smithson, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Kenneth Noland, Clement Greenberg, Bob Neuwirth, Joseph Kosuth, Mark di Suvero, Brigid Berlin, Lawrence Weiner, Rosemarie Castoro, Marjorie Strider, Dorothea Rockburne, Leo Valledor, Peter Forakis and Marisol were just a few of the artists and writers he befriended and saw regularly at Max's Kansas City - the favorite place for artists in New York City during the 1960s.[6]

By 1970 Landfield was recognized as one of the first painters to have led the "movement away from the geometric, hard-edge, and minimal, toward more lyrical, sensuous, romantic abstractions in colors which were softer and more vibrant."

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts (formerly Stanford University Museum of Art) amongst other places. In 1967-1968 two drawings were reproduced in S.M.S. III by the Letter Edged in Black Press, and he was included in New York 10 1969, a portfolio of prints published by Tanglewood Press.[9]

In October 1969 he had his first one-man exhibition at the David Whitney Gallery in NYC, featuring works of that period which were partially inspired by Chinese Landscape painting. His painting Any Day Now, 1969, 108 x 93 inches was acquired by the

Havana, Cuba
.

During 1970 Landfield participated in a three-person show in New York City at the David Whitney Gallery and he had solo exhibitions in Cleveland, St. Louis and in Corona Del Mar, California. In 1971 he held his second solo exhibition at the David Whitney Gallery in New York City. From that exhibition his painting Chinese Winter, 108 x 88 inches was acquired by the

Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, and his painting Storm Thread, 108 x 94 inches, was acquired by the Smith College Museum of Art
. Landfield joined the Andre Emmerich Gallery in April 1972 one month after the David Whitney Gallery closed in March 1972.

1973 to 1993

Park Avenue between 52nd and 53rd Streets in Midtown Manhattan, on the so-called Mark Rothko
wall.

Spending the early summer of 1980 on the

Zurich
, to name a few places.

During the early 1970s to the early 1990s many of Landfield's major paintings entered important public collections. In 1970 his painting St. Augustine, 1968, 108 x 120 inches was acquired by the

abstract painting
in New York since the mid-1960s. Landfield began extensive writing and lecturing about abstract painting from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s.

Recent work

The Deluge, 1999, a/c, 108x120 inches, (exhibited: Salander/O'Reilly Galleries NYC, 2000).

In 1994 Landfield presided over two public panel discussions at the New York Studio School and the Tenri Institute both in

Sapporo, Japan and lectured there on American art. In 1997 he aided colleague Ronald Davis's creation of an educational website highlighting abstract art from the 1960s.[15] He was represented by the Salander/O'Reilly Gallery in New York from 1997 until 2007. In October 2005 he had a solo exhibition of his paintings accompanied by a solo show of sculpture by Peter Reginato at the Heidi Cho Gallery in Chelsea.[16]

In 2007 Landfield had a retrospective exhibition Ronnie Landfield: Paintings From Five Decades, at the

TriBeCa, and teaches at The Art Students League of New York; during a recent lecture there he said "It's important for maximum freedom for an artist, to stay under the radar for as long as possible". From 2007 until 2016, his work has been exhibited at the Stephen Haller Gallery in New York City and LewAllen Galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He currently is represented by the Findlay Galleries in New York and Florida. He draws, paints and writes left-handed. Landfield's two sons are artists who live in New York: Matthew Hart Landfield is an actor, writer and director,[19] and Noah Landfield is a painter and musician.[20]

At the time of his exhibition at the Butler Institute of American Art in 2007, Landfield was referred to as "one of the best painters in America and has been since he first came on the scene in the 1960s."[21] Louis Zona, director of the institute, says "To stand in front of a Landfield painting is to be transported into a world where color feeds upon color and every inch of the canvas is considered ... Ronnie Landfield is, pure and simple, one of the best painters in America."[22]

Landfield's show Where it All Began was the debut exhibition at the gallery space of the High School of Art and Design in the fall of 2012.[23] In late October 2012 Landfield's home and studio in Tribeca was adversely affected by Hurricane Sandy.[24][25][26] In the fall of 2013 his paintings were included in an exhibition called Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year One curated by Phong Bui and The Daedalus Foundation.[27][28][29]

Most recently, he has been under the representation of

Findlay Galleries, and has had his work in several group and one-man shows. In January 2018, he participated in a live discussion
with Michael Rips, the director of the Art Students League of New York, about his life and his art at Findlay Galleries.

Collections

Awards

References

  1. ^ "Ronnie Landfield". LewAllen Galleries, 2011. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
  2. ^ Ara Osterweil, Artforum, January, 2020
  3. ISBN 1-882790-50-2
  4. ^ "Bowery Artist Tribute"
  5. ISBN 1-882790-50-2
  6. ^ High on Rebellion: Inside the Underground at Max's Kansas City, by Yvonne Sewall-Ruskin, foreword by Lou Reed, Thunder's Mouth Press NYC. 1998, pp.2-105
  7. Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
    , Ridgefield, Conn. 1970.
  8. Whitney Museum of American Art
    , NYC, 1971.
  9. ISBN 1-882790-50-2
  10. ^ MoMA
  11. ^ Norton Simon Museum
  12. ^ Walker Art Center
  13. ^ Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
  14. ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art
  15. ^ Repository of Abstract Art, Modern Paintings, and Sculpture
  16. ^ eric gelber on ronnie landfield and peter reginato at heidi cho
  17. ^ Art in America, Annual 2007-2008, Museums, Galleries, Artists Guide, 2007-2008 Museum preview p.36
  18. ^ The Hudson Review (60th anniversary edition), Spring 2008, At the Galleries, Karen Wilkin, pp172-177.
  19. ^ "master". Archived from the original on 2017-09-17. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
  20. ^ Noah Landfield
  21. ISBN 1-882790-50-2
  22. ^ http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=50341
  23. ^ Corwin, William (November 2012). "Ronnie Landfield: Where it All Began". The Brooklyn Rail.
  24. ^ NY Times, Liz Harris, Where Rent Is Stabilized, Reopening After Storm Is No Certainty
  25. ^ Huffington Post, Annie Fabricant, Ronnie Landfield, One of America's Greatest Abstract Painters, Gets Swamped
  26. ^ artistnetwork, Jerry N. Weiss, After the Deluge: Hurricane Sandy Wreaked Havoc on Artists and Their Work
  27. ^ Frieze Magazine, Will Corwin
  28. ^ Artcritical
  29. ^ ARTPULSE, Stephen Truax, Come Together: Surviving Sandy
  30. ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art
  31. ^ Museum of Modern Art, Diamond Lake
  32. ^ Whitney Museum of American Art
  33. ^ Brooklyn Museum
  34. ^ The National Gallery of Art
  35. ^ Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
  36. ^ Norton Simon Museum
  37. ^ Art Institute of Chicago
  38. ^ Walker Art Center
  39. ^ Seattla Art Museum
  40. ^ Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
  41. ^ High Museum of Art
  42. ^ Des Moines Art Center
  43. ^ Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
  44. ^ Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts
  45. ^ Staatsgemaldesammlungen
  46. ^ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  47. ^ Smith College Museum of Art
  48. ^ New Orleans Museum of Art
  49. ^ Indianapolis Museum of Art
  50. ^ Portland Museum of Art
  51. ^ Portland Art Museum
  52. ^ Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art
  53. ^ Ringling Museum of Art
  54. ^ Akron Art Museum
  55. ^ Detroit Institute of Arts

Bibliography

External links

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