Leo Valledor: Play It by Eye

Paintings, abstract, minimalism, color-field

Exhibition Dates: October 22, Saturday – November 23, Wednesday

Reception:  October 22, 5 p.m. to 7p.m.

Show Description:

Leo Valledor, a master of geometric abstraction, will be having a solo exhibit of his latest work on 22nd of October featuring ten large canvases rarely seen by the public eye since his untimely death in 1989. Art critics have placed Valledor’s work in the league of Ellsworth Kelly, Barnett Newman and Leon Polk Smith.

The pieces in this exhibition demonstrate Valledor’s journey into his new forms of painting.  Valledor began working in this style as an originating member of the influential Park Place Group in New York during the advent of minimalism in the 1960’s.

“Play It by Eye” captures the energy of jazz, the complexities of Valledor’s “four-dimensional color” and his attachments to formalist and Zen thinking. According to the University of Texas art historian Linda Dalrymple Henderson, the growing critical recognition of Valledor’s art restores a vital element to the history of art- making in the United States from the 1960s and onward. The artist is best known for his daring approach to color in the avant-garde of minimalism with contemporaries such as Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd, and Robert Smithson.

Venue: Togonon Gallery is located at 77 Geary, 2nd. Fl.

Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11-5:30 p.m.

Open until 8 pm on 1st Thursday of month

Url: www.togonongallery.com

Tel: 415.398.5572

For more information, please contact , Associate Gallery Director

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