George Ortman. Exhibition Poster. 1966. Artist Proof for "David Stuart Galleries." Signed.
Los Angeles: David Stuart Galleries, 1966. Lithograph. 26 x 19 inches. Signed and annotated "artist proof" in pencil. ...
David Stuart (1910-1984). His gallery dealt in contemporary art and Stuart was also an expert in the field of Pre-Columbian art...
George Earl Ortman (October 17, 1926 – December 16, 2015) was an American painter, printmaker, constructionist and sculptor. His work has been referred to as Neo-Dada, pop art, minimalism, and hard-edge painting. His constructions, built with a variety of materials and objects, deal with the exploration of visual language derived from geometry—geometry as symbol and sign....
In 1954 and 1960, he showed simplified geometric constructions at the Stable Gallery. This work was viewed by Donald Judd as a precursor to Minimalism....
In a catalogue essay for an exhibition of Ortman's work at Princeton University in 1967, American poet, Stanley Kunitz, wrote: "Ortman's work could not have been produced except for an artist of bold analytical intelligence, with a sense of the usable past and an inexhaustible curiosity about the way the thing is made, the "sacred mystery."....
In Arts Yearbook 7 (1964), Donald Judd wrote: "Some of George Ortman’s reliefs are three-dimensional enough to be objects. They seem to be games or models for some activity and suggest chance … They suggest probability theory. They are one of the few instances of completely unnaturalist art. They are concerned with a new area of experience, one which is relevant philosophically as well as emotionally."”....
Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books. Berkeley. Item #51-5170
Price: $500.00