9002 Melrose Avenue
West Hollywood, CA 90069
310 276 0147
Louis Stern Fine Arts was founded in 1982 as Louis Stern Galleries in Beverly Hills and has been located in West Hollywood’s Design District since 1994. The gallery’s focus is primarily historical, with an emphasis on West Coast Post-war geometric abstract artists. The gallery also holds works by other influential Mid-Century abstract painters and represents a stable of contemporary artists. In addition to its exhibition program, Louis Stern Fine Arts has had a long and successful involvement in the secondary market, with a special concentration in Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, Modern and Latin American art.
Artists Represented:Chris Collins
Gabriele Evertz
Laurie Fendrich
Knopp Ferro
Heather Hutchison
Mokha Laget
Mark Leonard
James Little
Cecilia Miguez
Richard Wilson
Estates:
Karl Benjamin
Mimi Chen Ting
Lorser Feitelson
Mark Feldstein
James Jarvaise
Ynez Johnston
Matsumi Kanemitsu
Helen Lundeberg
Alfredo Ramos Martínez
Doug Ohlson
Frederick Wight
Installation view of Mimi Chen Ting: The Sea Within Me, at Louis Stern Fine Arts, 2023.
. Matsumi Kanemitsu (1922-1992) Stormy Night Baja, 1985 acrylic on canvas 20 x 35 inches; 50.8 x 88.9 centimeters LSFA# 13996
Installation view of Alfredo Ramos Martinez: Works on Paper, at Louis Stern Fine Arts, 2022.
Upcoming Exhibition
Helen Lundeberg
Helen Lundeberg: Inner/Outer Space
September 14, 2024 - November 2, 2024
Throughout a career spanning six decades, Los Angeles-based artist Helen Lundeberg (1908-1999) held an enduring fascination with the structures and patterns underpinning the natural world and the universe beyond it. From her early scientific illustrations of flowers, seeds, and human embryos to the highly abstracted mountains, planets, and waterways she painted in her later career, Lundeberg’s work traces a unifying structural organization across terrestrial and cosmic orders of magnitude. Relying as much on calculated formal composition as on the subjective engagement of the viewer, Lundeberg’s work straddles the permeable borders between observation and memory, perception and imagination, and physical and psychological space.
Louis Stern Fine Arts is part of PST ART as a Gallery Program Participant. Returning in September 2024 with its latest edition, PST ART: Art & Science Collide, this landmark regional event explores the intersections of art and science, both past and present. PST ART is presented by Getty. For more information about PST ART: Art & Science Collide, please visit pst.art.
Past Exhibitions
Gabriele Evertz, James Little, Doug Ohlson, Robert Swain, Sanford Wurmfeld
Chromatic Conversations
July 13, 2024 - August 17, 2024
Louis Stern Fine Arts is pleased to present Chromatic Conversations, a group show featuring 5 prominent color theorists based in New York: Gabriele Evertz, James Little, Doug Ohlson, Robert Swain, and Sanford Wurmfeld. The show opens Saturday July 13th and runs through August 17, 2024.
Doug Ohlson (1936-2010)
Republic, 1985
acrylic on canvas
60 x 60 inches; 152.4 x 152.4 centimeters
LSFA# 12482
Matsumi Kanemitsu
Matsumi Kanemitsu: Traction Avenue
May 18, 2024 - June 29, 2024
Matsumi Kanemitsu: Traction Avenue
May 18-June 29, 2024
Opening reception May 18, 5-7pm
Louis Stern Fine Arts is pleased to present Matsumi Kanemitsu: Traction Avenue, a selection of late works by influential Japanese American artist and educator Matsumi Kanemitsu (1922-1992). The works on view were created in the last years of the artist’s life, during which he lived and worked in the historic Joannes Brothers Company Building at 800 Traction Avenue, located in what is now known as Los Angeles’s Arts District. Expressing the complex human experience of natural forces in sumi ink, watercolor, and acrylic, these works embody both the splendor and the perils of a sunset in a scorching desert, the churning waves of a Pacific storm, or rivers of rain in a summer deluge. This body of work represents the culmination of the artist’s prolific and diverse career and bears the legacy of his profound impact on cultivating a vibrant and thriving artist community in LA.