• Engel and Brigante Nov 2015

    Jules Engel and Nicholas ‘Nick’ Brigante
    Drawings and Watercolors

    Jules Engel (1909 – 2003) and Nicholas ‘Nick’ Brigante(1897-1989) were far apart in their imagery BUT they both loved ‘the line’ and ‘motion’, as demonstrated in these two exhibitions. Each artist has his unique ‘hand’ which clearly captured rhythmic goals. Compare, contrast and enjoy!

    Jules Engel
    Disney to CalArts 1930s-1990s

    JULES ENGEL Fantasia: Dance of the Hours
    Fantasia: Dance of the Hours, Hippos, Crocodiles, Ostrich Ballerinas
    • JULES ENGEL Fantasia: Nutcracker Suite
      Fantasia: Nutcracker Suite, Russian Thistle Dancers (Studies)

       Nicholas P. Brigante
    Watercolors 1920s-1960s

    • NICHOLAS P. BRIGANTE Workers Series #39
      Workers Series #39
  • LATIN FLAVORS 2015

    LATIN FLAVORS 2015

    July 14 to September 4, 2015

    JEAN CHARLOT Volador
    JEAN CHARLOT
    Volador
    LUCHITA HURTADO Untitled
    LUCHITA HURTADO
    Untitled

    Here in Southern California, we blend many cultures in true American melting pot tradition.  We trace roots to the original latin countries – here and abroad – to add spices to our pot!

    Our LATIN FLAVORS 2015 spans a century that includes art by PosadaZuniga and Romero, in a flow of story telling, folklore, songsheets that pour out the passions of the artists.  Dramatic black and white adds to the brew, though color is intrinsic.   These colors reveal the moods, the visions and the heat that is a part of creativity.

    David Alfaro Siqueiros’s mountainous landscape climbs to 6000 feet at Macchu Picchu but Frank Romero brings us down to earth at MacArthur Park with the ice cream vendors.  Francisco Zuniga depicts an earthy nude in contrast to Elizabeth Catlett’s study of a young Rafaela.  Carlos Merida narrates the origins of the earth while Leopoldo Mendez reveals the plights of a family disconnected from its land.

    Pablo O’Higgins observes the village laundress while Jean Charlot is depicting a holiday hairdressing.   Jesus Escobedo somberly meditates alongside Rico Lebrun’s Mourners at the Crucifixion, while Manuel Alvarez Bravo’s carousel horse slyly peeks at Francisco Toledo’s turtle on the ladder!

    LATIN FLAVORS 2015 brims with imagination, honesty, humor, social commentary, heartfelt sadness and Life, Life, Life.

    Techniques include: Lithography, Etching, Screenprinting, Photography, Drawing, Woodcut, Typography and  Sculpting.

    Many additional pieces can be seen on our website : TobeyCMossGallery.com

    Do check us out and visit the Gallery – in person, over the telephone or on the web. We look forward to greeting you!

    • LEOPOLDO MENDEZ Desalojados - Dispossessed
      LEOPOLDO MENDEZ Desalojados – Dispossessed

     

  • IN FOCUS – August 2015

    IN FOCUS – Joyce Wahl Treiman (1922-1991)

    Indians
    ‘Indians’
    Venice California Canal
    ‘Venice California Canal’

    JOYCE WAHL TREIMAN Don, Rose & BernDon, Rose & Bern

     

  • June Wayne (1918-2011)
    • JUNE WAYNE The Hero - Kafka Series
      JUNE WAYNE
      The Hero – Kafka Series

    June Wayne (1918-2011)

    The Dreamers
    ‘The Dreamers’
    She is All States and All Princes, I John Donne Series
    ‘She is All States and All Prince , I John Donne Series’
    JUNE WAYNE Jubal
    Jubal
  • COLLAGE May/June 2015

    COLLAGE

    May/June 2015

    WILLIAM DOLE Proxy            ;JULES ENGEL Homage to Louise Nevelson

    The technique of collage is a process of ‘add-ons’….applying papers, string, objects, photographs, buttons and bows to a support of paper, cardboard, board, cloth or whatever……resulting in a composition of complex ideas, textures and shapes.

    To illustrate: here are works of art by artists whose minds transgress boundaries. William Dole, Jules Engel, Betye Saar, Werner Drewes, Leonard Edmondson, Increase Robinson, and Emerson Woelffer.

    We find these images exciting. They encourage you and me to ‘think outside the box’; we hope you feel the same curiosity and interest!

    Imagination, serendipity and stacks of ‘stuff’ are the stimuli.

    LEONARD EDMONDSON Portrait        WERNER DREWES Black & White - a Study

    INCREASE ROBINSON Moonstruck

  • Sister Mary Corita Kent

    Sister Mary Corita Kent 1918 – 1986

     

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      MARY CORITA KENT
      Tomato

    Sister Mary Corita became part of the Order of the Immaculate Heart, Los Angeles in 1936.  Only 18 years old, she found an avenue to follow her faith and to expand her education.  Over the next decade she took classes at Otis Art Institute, Chouinard Art Institute and achieved a Master in Arts degree from USC.  During the same period she taught in elementary school and developed a signature style in color screenprinting. She taught in the Immaculate Heart College and became a celebrated chair of its art department.  Her classes at Immaculate Heart attracted prominent artists including John Cage, Buckminster Fuller and Charles and Ray Eames whom she, in turn, credited as playing important roles in her artistic development. Aside from national attention for her ’Love’ postage stamp, her work has been lauded in many museum exhibitions, catalogues and a movie narrated by Eva Marie Sainte.

  • The Photographic Eyea stellar collection of images that range from the abstract to the portrait – from genre to industrial …
    images to LIVE WITH.This eclectic showing displays a wide range of 20th century artists ranging from CameraWorks/Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston to Lou Jacobs Jr. and Gyorgy Kepes. The listing below describes our walls. Some images are available to request. 

     


    ALFRED STIEGLITZ 1864-1946
    Miss S.R.
    Photogravure from original negative 1904
    CameraWork-Vol.12, 1905
    8 x 5 1/2 inches (20.4 x 14.0cm)
     

     

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    BASIL LANGTON 1912-2003
    Georgia O’Keeffe Series
    Silverprint 1971 84314-C8 #27
    13 7/8 x 7 5/8 inches (35.2 x 19.4cm)
    BRUCE%20BARNBAUM%20Beneath%20the%20Santa%20Monica%20Pier
    BRUCE BARNBAUM b.1943
    Beneath the Santa Monica Pier
    Silverprint 1970 44-177A
    16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8cm)
    LOU%20JACOBS%20JR%20Jules%20Engel
    LOU JACOBS JR b.1921
    Jules Engel
    Silverprint 1949 #146-1
    10 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches (26.7 x 19.7cm)

    EDMUND TESKE 1911-1996
    Herb Landegger and Bob Burke
    Silverprint 1945
    8 7/8 x 9 inches (22.5 x 20.2cm)

    AMANDA BLANCO b.1933
    Mother and Child
    Silverprint c.1973
    13 7/8 x 8 1/8 inches (35.2 x 20.6cm)

    J. CRAIG ANNAN 1864-1946
    Ex Libris
    Photogravure from original negative 1909
    Camera Work, Vol. 26
    7 7/8 x 6 inches (20.2 x 15.2cm)

    LOLA ALVAREZ-BRAVO 1907-1993
    Girl on Merry-Go-Round
    Silverprint c.1940
    9 x 7 inches (22.9 x 17.8cm)

     

  • YNEZ JOHNSTON: AN INTIMATE VIEW 
    YNEZ JOHNSTON: AN INTIMATE VIEW
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    YNEZ JOHNSTON Abstraction with Fish

     

    Ynez Johnston makes dramatic use of jewel-like colors and bold lines as she references romantic and mystic cultures. The viewer is guided through fantastic kingdoms, exotic structures and magical settings that suggest teeming cities, ambiguous landscapes, voluptuous royal trappings and improbable vehicles.

    From the Whitney Museum of American Art to the Art Institute of Chicago, from San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts to the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, her art has been celebrated in solo exhibitions. Galleries from Los Angeles, London, Chicago, Tokyo, New York and others throughout Europe and the United States have followed with their own solo shows.

    Ynez Johnston excites the imagination that lies within most of us!

  • THE SUBJECT IS WOMAN 
    THE SUBJECT IS WOMANJanuary 19 to March 29

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    The Subject is WOMAN is an eclectic collection of works that depict “WOMAN” as the source of mystery, creativity, and desire that is the foundation, the intuition and ‘the way’. The artists including John Altoon to Alfred Stieglitz, Albrecht Durer to Leonora Carrington, Betye Saar to Gerald Brockhurst, Kathe Kollwitz to Jose Luis Cuevas, George Morland to Henrietta Shore have portrayed INSCRUTABLE WOMAN in her many guises.