Calvin Marcus, Automatic Drawing #4 (2015), via Art Observed

Marking the artist’s first exhibition with David Kordansky, Calvin Marcus has brought his own unique brand of deeply personal, witty surrealism to bear in Los Angeles, exhibiting a body of mixed-media paintings, drawing, fabric work and readymade sculptures that incorporate a subtle blend of humor into the artist’s carefully designed and shifting craft. (more…)

The Guardian profiles artist Sam Gilliam, whose work during the 1960’s and 70’s was considered among the best working in abstraction, and who, at 81, is experiencing another moment in the limelight after L.A. gallerist David Kordansky rallied to bring the artist’s work to wider attention.  “Sam stayed constant – it was the world that turned,” says Laura Hoptman, MoMA’s curator for painting and sculpture. “Finally, he popped back into focus.” (more…)

Will Boone, RID (2015), via Art Observed

David Kordansky Gallery is currently presenting Flat World a group show organized by Karma New York, an exhibition of familiar objects rendered in conceptually minimal fashions, cohesively utilizing form as content while transforming formal aesthetic style into subject and material.  Flat World includes works by Richard Artschwager, Tauba Auerbach, Will Boone, Jeff Elrod, Robert Grosvenor, Peter Halley, Lee Lozano, John Mason, and Charlotte Posenensko. Combining the work of artists both young and old, the exhibition spans the years of the 1960’s  through the 1980’s and on to the early 2010’s.  (more…)