Louis Stern Fine Arts

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.

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: 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.