John Luebtow, Norton Wisdom
dal 26/4/2002 al 1/6/2002
Segnalato da
26/4/2002
John Luebtow, Norton Wisdom
Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica
Luebtow has consistently addressed a quadrum of fundamental sculptural issues throughout his career; line, form, space, and light. In this exhibition: new sculpture and wall construction in steel and glass. Norton Wisdom, is a painter and performance artist. He has been painting the trapezoid for 30 years. He continually reinvents himself through this single form.
Luebtow sculpture, Wisdom: painting
Luebtow has consistently addressed a quadrum of fundamental sculptural issues throughout his career; line, form, space, and light. In this exhibition: new sculpture and wall construction in steel and glass.
Norton Wisdom, is a painter and performance artist. Within the walls of his personal mania he has been painting the trapezoid for 30 years. He continually reinvents himself through this single form.
JOHN LUEBTOW
Patricia Correia Gallery is proud to present a one-person exhibition of new sculpture and wall
construction in steel and glass by internationally renowned artist John Gilbert Luebtow.
Luebtow has consistently addressed a quadrum of fundamental sculptural issues throughout his
career; line, form, space, and light. These are broad considerations, to be sure; to a certain extent,
they are inherent to all visual art media. What is significant in Luebtow's fidelity to this set of
issues is not only his tenacity in the unraveling of their mysterious laws, but also the
extraordinarily wide range of approaches he has drawn to them. The mystery he pursues is the
technical spiritual identity of his medium. He searches within the sovereign form of his subjects for
the abstract evidence of the energetic rhythm of movement. The materials Luebtow uses are
primarily pure industrial (steel, glass, metal cables).
Luebtow has developed innovative technical processes in glass-making, introducing and
incorporating gesture and expressive qualities into impeccably finished sculptural components. He
bends one-inch sheet glass - a signature technical ability which has garnered him the unparalleled
esteem of his colleagues and international recognition. Biomorphic shapes co-exist with hard
geometries; different levels of translucence and controlled variations in the glass purity and surface
rippling consort to infuse the sculpture and wall construction with visually complex layers and
optical effects, fluidity, and a monumental scale regardless of size.
Over the past thirty years, John Luebtow has become one of the most respected names in
contemporary glass sculpture. He holds a BA from California Lutheran College, and two distinct
MFA's from UCLA (one in ceramics and one in glass). His work has been featured in solo and
group shows at museums, galleries, public venues, and institutions, including: Los Angeles
County Museum of Art; Craft and Folk Art Museum (LA); California Craft Museum (SF); Masur
Museum of Art (Monroe); Museum of Fine Arts, WSU (Pullman, WA); Laguna Gloria Museum of
Art (Austin); Oakland Museum of Art (Oakland); Darmstadt Museum (West Germany); Bank of
America World Headquarters (San Francisco); Federal Reserve Gallery (DC).
Luebtow has devoted much of his career to teaching in Los Angeles: Rotterdam (Royal Academy
of Art), Tokyo (Tamagawa Gakuen), and Harvard-Westlake School, in which he was appointed the
Arts Department Chairperson in 1980. He has received awards and honors from organizations
nationwide, including: Who's Who in America, Who's Who Among America's Teachers, Rhode
Island School of Design Scholarship for Excellence in Higher Art Education, and Honorary
membership to the Mark Taper Center/ Inner City Arts 1,000 Steps Committee. His work has been
commissioned by major public and private corporations internationally, including: Koll Center
(Gensler Associates Architects); Redken Laboratories; H.S.H. Princess Caroline of Monaco for
Intercoiffure Maison des Nations: Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel; Takeshiba Hotel (Tokyo);
Trammell-Crow Co.; Loeb & Loeb Attorneys; Nippon Airways; Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines;
Hewlett-Packard; Atlantic-Richfield; American Airlines; Nestle Company; Saks Fifth Avenue; Hyatt
Hotels (Melbourne); Sheraton Hotels (Singapore, Hong Kong, US cities); The Crull Residence;
Supreme Court of Nevada; and Rockwell International, Pacific Design Center (LA), Yamaha
Corporation. He recently completed a large scale installation at Scripps Research Institute.
John Luebtow is represented exclusively in Los Angeles by Patricia Correia Gallery at Bergamot
Station Art Center, 2525 Michigan Avenue E2, Santa Monica 90404. Gallery hours are Tuesday -
Friday 10 am - 6 pm, and Saturday 11 am - 6 pm. Patricia Correia Gallery is a member of the Art
Dealers' Association of California. B/W available upon request.
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NORTON WISDOM
Norton Wisdom, is a painter and performance artist. Within the walls of his personal
mania he has been painting the trapezoid for 30 years. He continually reinvents
himself through this single form. To Wisdom, the trapezoidal armature which
supports every painting is, the universal grid of art. Every painting is assessed on its
own attributes; every painting is completely independent and at the same time part of
the whole as an ongoing body of artwork
During Norton Wisdom's time in Berkeley, he had the opportunity to experience the
Hans Hoffman "Push/Pull" school of thinking which had a profound influence on him.
Feeling that the figure/field issues lacked unification, he adds the cubist architectural
element to the flat surface, creating a work which recedes, advances and ultimately
unifies.
Norton Wisdom studied art at Chinouards Art School in Los Angeles 1963-1967,
where he studied with John Altoon; and at UC Berkeley 1967-1972, acting as the
foundry assistant to Peter Voulkos. His painting has been exhibited at The New
Museum of Modern Art, Oakland, CA; the University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; the
Milwaukee Art Center; the La Jolla Contemporary Art Museum and the Santa
Claritas Museum. Wisdom has exhibited internationally at Galeria Carla
, Munich, Germany; Galeria Domani, Herrsching, Germany; Pyong Taek City
Museum with the International Arts Festival, Korea and Lalit Kala Academy, India.
His performance art, improvisational screen painting in collaboration with live music
is also performed internationally. Wisdom resides in Los Angeles, CA and is
represented by Patricia Correia Gallery in Santa Monica, CA.
Image: John Luebtow
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