Kiyo Higashi Catalogue

KIYO HIGASHI 

MARCH - APRIL 2016 

PETER BLAKE GALLERY 

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KIYO HIGASHI 

MARCH - APRIL 2016 

In March 2016, Peter Blake Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of works selected from Kiyo 

Higashi’s private collection. 

From the time Kiyo Higashi opened her eponymous gallery in Bevery Hills in 1987 to the day she closed 

it in 2000. she maintained a stable of artists with a particular aesthetic. This aesthetic, whether called 

minimal, reductive or monochrome, is one that Higashi has staunchly championed as both a dealer and 

a collector. 

“When Higashi opened her gallery she began paving the way for many of the most important galleries 

and museums open todaY”. (Kristin Klosterman) 

SCOT HEYWOOD 

Painting #42, 1990 

oil on canvas on wood panel 

51 x 51” 

PETER BLAKE GALLERY

INTRODUCTION 

THE KIYO HIGASHI GALLERY 

Kiyo Higashi is an art dealer who thinks like a curator - a curator with a specific area of expertise, to be precise. Minimalism 

is her thing, and her belief in it as a style impervious to trend is unshakable. 

““For me, it’s a timeless school”,” stated Higashi, an impeccably elegant woman whose personal style echoed her taste in 

art.“There’s always art being made that could be described as reductive relative to whatever’s going on at the time, and an 

endless procession of young artists working in the Minimalist tradition come to the gallery hoping to be shown. 

The Kiyo Higashi Gallery, began presenting exhibitions of Minimalism a good decade after the avant-garde lost interest 

in it. Minimalism, a contemplative style that began to coalesce in the 1950s in reaction to the excesses of Abstract 

Expressionism, peaked in popularity in the late ‘1960s with the grandly austere work of such sculptors as Donald Judd, 

Carl Andre and Tony Smith. Emotionally muted, usually characterized by a low degree of visual differentiation and often 

monochromatic, Minimalism synthesizes aspects of geometric abstraction, earthworks, serial imagery and Conceptualism. 

“My attraction to the style may have something to do with my Japanese background, because I responded to it 

immediately,” Higashi says.“In Japan there’s very little space in the homes and public buildings, so you learn to think 

minimally and develop ways of creating a sense of spaciousness in small quarters--and into your mind as well. How else 

could several people live in a small house with paper walls? It takes a lot of discipline.” 

“I never stopped looking at art, and in 1965 I began getting to know people in the local art community when my husband, 

who’s a CPA, introduced me to Frank Gehry, who was one of his clients. Frank introduced me to Larry Bell; his was the first 

Minimalist work I saw, and I immediately loved it for its meditative qualities. It’s art you must participate in to appreciate, 

and you have to slow down to absorb it. Being involved with Minimalism changed my perception of myself and of 

everything else.” 

In 1984, Higashi and her husband, Robert, bought two buildings on Melrose Avenue.” Larry asked if he could design the 

space,” she says.“I told him that would be wonderful, so I hired an architect to execute Larry’s plans. Having transformed 

the upstairs into an office for my husband, Larry shifted his attention to the downstairs space, which at the time housed 

the Les Enfant Boutique. Larry suggested I make it a gallery and begin representing him, but as I’d never even thought of 

opening a gallery, my initial response was:‘Are you serious?’ 

“Then I thought about it and I realized my children were grown and that I had more freedom than I’d ever had. Maybe it 

was an offer I shouldn’t refuse. So I opened with an exhibition of Larry’s work, with no long-term game plan other than 

knowing that I’d never show work I didn’t believe in. “I soon discovered I enjoy working with artists - it’s exciting to see 

them grow and change - and of course, I love the work and feel it’s a privilege to show it.” 

excerpt from Los Angeles Times by Kristine McKenna 

PETER BLAKE GALLERY

MAX COLE 

Sparrow, 1993 

oil on linen 

24 x 31.5” 

JAMES HAYWARD 

Automatic Painting Violet #2, 1977 

oil on canvas on wood panel 

22 x 22” 

PETER BLAKE GALLERY

Larry Bell 

Born 1939, Chicago, Illinois 

Lives and works in Taos, New Mexico 

SELECTED ONE-MAN SHOWS: 

•Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, 1962, ‘1963, ‘1965 

•Pace Gallery, NYC, 1965, ‘67, ‘70, ‘71, ‘72, ‘73 

•Galeria Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, 1967 

•Oakland (California) Museum, 1973 

•Fort Worth (Texas) Art Museum, 1975 

•Hayden Gallery, M.I.T., Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977 

•The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, 1981 

•Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach,CA 1982 

•Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1982 

•The Detroit (Michigan) Institute of Arts, 1982 

•ARCO Center for Visual Arts, Los Angeles, 1983 

•Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1982 

•Colorado Springs (Colorado) Fine Arts Center, 1984 

•Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1985-‘86 

•Boise (Idaho) Gallery of Art, 1986 

•Amarillo (Texas) Art Center, 1986 

•Galerie Gilbert Brownstone & Cie, Paris, 1987 

•Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, 1987-‘90, ‘1992-‘94 

•Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, 1988 

•Gemini Editions Limited, Los Angeles, 1988 

•Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France, 1989 

•Galerie Rolf Ricke, Kûln, Germany, 1990 

•Galerie Montenay, Paris, 1990 

•Tampa (Florida) Museum of Art, 1992 

•Tony Shafrazi Gallery, NYC, 1991 

•Tucson (Arizona) Museum of Art, 1991 

•New Directions Gallery, Taos, New Mexico, 1989, ‘91, ‘93, ‘94. 

•Indigo Gallery, Boca Raton, FL 1995 

•Art et Industrie Gallery, New York, 1996 

•The Albuquerque Museum, 1997 

•Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland, 

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‘1997 

•Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway, 1998 

•Seljord Art Association, Seljord, Norway, 1998 

•Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA, 1999 

•Museum Moderner Kunst Landkreis Cuxhaven, Otterndorf, 

Germany, 1999 

SELECTED COLLECTIONS:• 

Museum of Modern Art, NYC 

•Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC 

•Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles 

•Abilene (Texas ) Zoological Gardens 

•The Albuquerque (New Mexico) Museum 

•Australian National Gallery, Canberra 

•Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 

•Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC 

•Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 

•Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC 

•Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 

•San Antonio (Texas) Museum of Art 

•Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Museum of Arts 

•Minneapolis (Minnesota) Institute of Arts 

General Electric Headquarters, Fairfield, Connecticut 

•National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 

•Colorado Springs (Colorado) Fine Art Center 

•Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA 

•The Archer M. Huntington Gallery, Univ. of Texas at Austin 

•The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas 

•Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico 

•Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France 

•Museum Ludwig, Kûln, Germany 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 

2014 Distilled Essence: Selected Work from the Kiyo Higashi 

Gallery / Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast 

College, Costa Mesa, CA 

Sidney Janis Gallery, NYC, 1964 

•Museum of Modern Art, NYC, 1965,’ 67, ’69, ’79, ’81, ’86 

•Museum of American Art, NYC, 1966 

•Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1969, ’1971 

•Tate Gallery, London, 1970 

•Hayward Gallery, London, 1971,’ 1975 

•National Collection of the Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, 

Washington, DC, 1975 

•San Francisco (California) Museum of Modern Art, 1976 

•37th Venice (Italy) Biennale, 1976 

•Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California, ‘1976 

•Museo de Arte Contemporanio de Caracas, Venezuela, 1978 

•Oakland (California) Museum, 1982 

•Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin,’84 

•Santa Barbara (California) Art Museum, 1984 

•Rufino Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, 1985 

•Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 1986, Museum of 

Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1985,’ 1986 

•American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, 1986 

•Arizona Art Museum, AZ State University, Tempe, AZ, 1987 

•Cleveland (Ohio) Center for Contemporary Art, 1987 

•Phoenix (Arizona) Art Museum, 1987 

•Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC, 1987,’ 1988 

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1988 

•Spaso House, Moscow, USSR, 1988 

•Galerie Joan Prats, Barcelona, 1989 

•Sculpturen und Projectionen, Arolsen, Germany, 1992 

•Musee du Palais du Luxembourg, Paris, France, 1993 

•Galerie Nächt St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria, 1995 

•Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany, 1996 

•Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, 1997 

•Grounds for Sculpture, Mercerville, NJ, 1998 

HONORS AND AWARDS: 

•Copley Foundation, grantee, 1962 

•Guggenheim Foundation, fellowship, 1970 

•Nationl Endowment for the Arts, grantee, 1975 

•Governors Award for Excellence and Achievement in the 

Arts (Visual Arts), State of New Mexico, 1990 

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A Word from the Artist: 

“The studio not only lets me follow my investigations 

with the comfort of the tools I have acquired over the 

years, but it allows me the confidence that, no matter 

what, the studio itself is as much acreative act as 

anything I consciously try to do. It has its own life, its 

own character, made up of the aggregiate of all the 

passion spent trying to follow dreams. The studio is 

the one place that I feel safe in. Not that its without 

risk, it has the quality of being at once my best friend 

and worst enemy. It is my playroom, my synagogue.” 

- Larry Bell 

THE FRANK M. DOYLE ARTS PAVILLION

Max Cole 

EDUCATION: 

•1964, MFA, University of Arizona 

•1961, BA, Fort Hays State UNiversity, Fort Hays, Kansas 




SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 

2012 “To the Line..., Meis van der Rohe Haus, Berlin.Catalog 

At the Edge of Meaning”, Galerie Wenger, 

Zurich, Switerland 

2011 Galerie Lindner, Vienna, Austria 

“Quintessence: Max Cole over Time”, Kunstgalerie 

Bonn, Germany. Catalog 

“Terre Firma” Max Cole: New Paintings, Haines Gallery, 

San Francisco, CA 

“Max Cole, Paintings”. Galerie Lindner, Vienna, Austria 

2010 “Light and Line, New Paintings,” Larry Becker 

Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

“Paintings,” Galerie Schlegl, Zurich, Switzerland. 

(with Jens Trimpin) 

2008 Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri 

2007 “On Redtail Pond: Paintings from the Summer,” Galerie 

Lindner, Vienna, Austria. (photo gravure portfolio) 

“Paintings from the Autumn . . . “ Haines Gallery, 

San Francisco, CA (catalog) 

2006 Studio la Città, Verona, Italy (catalog) 

2005 “Time and Measure,” Museum Chasa Jaura, 

Val Chava, Switzerland 

“Nero Avorio,” Art Antica e Contemporanea e 

Confronto, Crocisso in Avorio / Dippinti di Max Cole, 

Milan, Italy (catalog) 

2004 Kolumba, Diozesanmeseum, Cologne, Germany (with 

small book of drawings) 

“Toward Infinity,” Galerie Schlegl, Zurich, 

Switzerland (catalog) 

Galerie Linder, Vienna, Austria 

“Paintings and Drawings,” Haines Gallery, 

San Francisco, CA (catalog) 

2003 Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany 

2002 Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg (with Jean 

Maboules) Aschaffenburg, Germany (catalog) 

Galerie Walter Storms, Munich, Germany 

2001 I-8 Galeria, Reyjavik, Iceland 

871 Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA 

“Paintings,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

2000 Haus fur Konstructive und Kondrete Kunst, Zurich, 

Switzerland (catalog) 

Galerie Belvedere, Milan, Italy 

Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany 

1999 Gudrun Spielvogel Gallery & Edition, Munich, Germany 

1999 Galerie Schlégl, Zürich, Switzerland 

1999 Galerie Ludke, Cologne, Germany 

1998 “Intimate Abstractions,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

Museum of Modern Art, Otterndorf, Germany 

(catalog) 

1997 Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany 

Galerie Appel und Fertsch, Frankfurt, Germany 

Galerie Ludke, Cologne, Germany 

1996 “Painting,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

Galerie Schlégl, Zürich, Switzerland 

Stark Gallery, New York, New York 

Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf, Germany 

1995 Roswell Museum & Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico 

Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

1994 Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

1993 Museum of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, 

Arizona (with catalog) 

“Recent Drawings,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

1992 Museum Folkwang, Graphics Cabinet, Essen, 

Germany 

Kunstraum Kassel, Kassel, Germany 

Galerie Schoppmann, Dusseldorf, Germany 


1991 Galerie Schlégl, Zürich, Switzerland 

1990 One person show, Cologne Art Fair, 

Galerie Schroeder 

“Recent Paintings”, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

1988 Galerie Helene Grubair, Miami, Florida 

1987 Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY 

1986 Oscarsson-Siegeltuch Gallery, New York, NY 

1984 Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 

1983 L. A. Louver, Los Angeles, CA 

1980 Miami/Dade College Art Gallery, Miami, Florida 

L. A. Louver, Los Angeles, CA 

1979 Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY (catalog) 

L. A. Louver, Los Angeles, CA 

1977 Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY 

1976 Ruth Schaffner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

1975 The Brand Art Center, Glendale, CA 

1972 Comara Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 



1964 Museum of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 

1963 261 Gallery, Tucson, AZ 

SELECTED COLLECTIONS 

• Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY 

• The American Center, New Delhi, India 

• Chait Foundation Collection, New York, NY 

• Daimler Chrysler Collection, Berlin, Germany 

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• Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX 

• Diozesan Museum, Cologne, Germany 

• Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York, NY 

• Erzbischofliches Diozesanmuseum, Cologne, Germany 

• Florida International University, Miami, Florida 

• FAI–Fondo per l’Ambiente Italiano, Villa Menafoglio, Varese, Italy 

• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 

• Grunwald Center for Graphic Art, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 

• Kolumba Diozesanmuseum, Cologne, Germany 

• Kramarsky Collection, New York, NY 

• Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle Collection, Freiburg, Germany 

• Kreditanstalt Für Wiederaufbau, Frankfurt, Germany 

• La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA 

• Lembach Haus, Munich, Germany 

• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 

• Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark 

• Metropolitan Museum of Art, Graphics Department, NY, NY 

• Miami/Dade College Art Gallery, Miami, Florida 

• Microsoft Collection, Seattle, Washington 

• Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota 

• Mondstudio Collection, Germany 

• Musée d’art et d’histoire Neuchâtel, Switzerland 

• Museo d’ Arte Moderna Contemporanea di Trento e 

Rovereto, Italy 

• Museum der Schönen 

• Kunst, Budapest, Hungary 

• Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA 

• Museum of Fine Arts of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico 

• Museum of Modern Art, Graphics Department, NY, NY 

• Museum of Modern Art, Otterndorf, Germany 

• Museum Moderner Kunst des Lendkreises Cuxhaven, 

Otterndorf, Germany 

• Museum fur Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany 

• Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA 

• Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, 

Logan, Utah 

• The Panza di Biumo Collection, Varese, Italy 

• Rossi/Mattioli Collection, Milan, Italy 

• Samlung Rosskoph, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, 

Freiburg, Germany 

• SanDiego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA 

• Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA 

• Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany 

• Sweet Briar College Galleries, Sweet Briar, Vermont 

• Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel 

• The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ 

• Utah Museum of Art, Salt Lake City, Utah 

• Van Der Heyht Museum, Wuppertal, Germany 

• Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensborough, N. Carolina 

• Museum of Fine Art, Budapest, Hungary 

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HONORS AND GRANTS 

2009 Contemporary Artist’s Meeting with the Pope, Sistine 

Chapel, Vatican City, Italy 

2005 Artist in Residence, The Joseph and Anni Albers 

Foundation, Connecticut 

1988 Research Fellowship, Indo-U.S. Sub-Commission, U. S. 

Dept. of State for exhibition and travel in India 

1987 Adolph Gottlieb Foundation Grant 

1986 Pollock / Krasner Foundation Grant 

1983 Visual Artists Fellowship, The National Endowment 

for The Arts 

A Word from the Artist: 

“Integrity, I mean an uncompromising stance in my work 

in relation to outside factors such as art world trends, 

movements or politics. 

My work is an internal endeavor and as such it must remain 

free of such external influences. On a recent panel discussion 

at a museum exhibition, the question was raised as to 

whether an artist should take into consideration the viewer 

while creating the work and I was amazed at the number of 

artists who agreed they should. 

For me this becomes art by consensus and flies in the face 

of my belief that art is a solitary pursuit. “ 

- Max Cole 


Scot Heywood 

Born: 

Born in 1951 in Los Angeles 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 




2000 Luminous, Ikon, Ltd./Kay Richards Contemporary 

Art, Los Angeles, CA 

Simply Complex: Monochromatic Paintings from LA, 

Dorsky Gallery, NY 

Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

1979 Group Exhibition, Vanguard Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 

2013 A Survey of Large Paintings 2006-2013, Santa 

Monica College Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery, 

Santa Monica, CA 

2014 Joe Goode, Scot Heywood, John M. Miller, Peter 

Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 

2013 Polyform: Larry Bell, Scot Heywood, Gustavo Pérez, 

& Mark Pharis, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 

2012 California Abstract Painting 1952-2011 (Curated by 

James Hayward), Woodbury University Nan Rae 

Gallery, Burbank, CA 

2011 Less is More, Subliminal Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

Marks and Movement: Five Painters, Edith Baumann, 

James Hayward, Scot Heywood, John M. Miller & 

Ed Moses, Santa Monica College Pete and 

Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, catalogue 

Three Abstract Painters: John McLaughlin, James 

Hayward, Scot Heywood, Frank Lloyd Gallery, 


2009 Lita Albuquerque, Scot Heywood and Andy Moses, 

Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 

2008 Planes and Surfaces, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa 

Monica, CA 

Fifteen Years/Fifteen Artists, Peter Blake Gallery, 

Laguna Beach, CA 

Color Blind: Black, White and Grey in Contemporary 

Art, Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art, 

Los Angeles, CA 

2007 Black and White, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 

Monochrome Painting: Some Versions from Ad 

Reinhardt to Present, Cardwell Jimmerson 

Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA 

West Coast Abstraction, Peter Blake Gallery, 

Laguna Beach, CA 

2006 A Little So Cal Abstraction, Mandarin Gallery, 

Los Angeles, CA (catalogue) 

1999 Under 500/Intimate Abstract Painting, Black Dragon 

Society, Los Angeles, CA 

1998 Starting with McLaughlin, Patricia Faure Gallery, 


1997 Abstraction in Los Angeles, New Image Art, 


1996 Red Painting, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA 

1994 Plane/Structures, Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art 

and Design, Los Angeles, CA 

In Plane Sight: Abstract Painting in LA Blue Star Art 

Space, San Antonio, Texas 

1992 New L.A. Abstraction, Art Gallery, College of the 

Mainlands, Texas City, Texas 

Group Show, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

1991 Group Show, Kiyo Higashi Gallery Los Angeles, CA 

1989 Art and Soul, Pence Gallery Los Angeles, CA 

Los Angeles Current Abstract Painting, Marc Richards 

Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

1988 Artist’s Liaison, Major Chicago Exhibition, Chicago, IL 

Primary Abstraction: Los Angeles, Modernism Gallery, 


1987 New Now, Los Angeles, CA 

1985 Black and White Drawings from the David Nellis 

Collection, CSU, Los Angeles, CA 

Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA 

Divisions: Seven Los Angeles Painters, LA Institute of 


1984 New Clear Painting, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA 

1983 New Abstract Painters from Los Angeles, 

San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 

A Survey of Small Paintings, Frank Lloyd Gallery, 


2012 Polarities, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 

2009 New Paintings, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 

Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 

2008 Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 

2005 Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA 

2003 Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 



1995 Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA 




1989 Newspace, Los Angeles, CA 



A Word about the Artist: 

Los Angeles Times, by David Pagel, November 1, 2013 

Stillness, silence and calm are probably not the first 

features that come to mind when contemporary artist 

are mentioned. Scandal is far more likely to make 

the headlines. 

But if you spend any time with Scot Heywood’s 

slow paintings, you might get excited by the way they 

alert you to the beauty of doing nothing more than 

standing still and staring. 

To see a two - three - or four- color painting by the 

62 year-old Angeleno is to find yourself in a situation 

free of the ordinary anxiety - or adrenalin buzz - that 

usually heightens perceptions, sharpens wits and drives 

life forward. 

Heywood’s serene paintings make relaxation look easy, 

providing visitors to his concurrent exhibitions quiet 

islands of respite from the craziness of modern life 

while keeping boredom at bay by stimulating the senses 

in subtly satisfying ways. 

The luminosity of Heywood’s surfaces makes every part 

of his out -of-whack compositions seem to be exactly 

where it should be -floating freely, like an impossible 

cloud of regal color or a geometric butterfly designed 

by Mondrian. 

In Heywood’s hands, serenity comes in all shapes and 

sizes, and, when it comes to art, there’s no such thing 

as too much of a good thing. 

That’s Hot, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, 

New Mexico 

Spring Fever, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, 

New Mexico 

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1982 In the Tradition, Group Studio Show, Los Angeles, CA 

1980 Abstract Painting, Los Angeles Institute of 


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Carol Kaufman 

EDUCATION 

1971-74 B.F.A California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA 

1970-71 Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston, 

Massachusetts 

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS 

2006 “Drawings,” d.e.n. contemporary art, Culver City, CA 

2003 “New Work,” Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 


1998 “Paintings,” Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 


1987 “Paintings,” Adler Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

1984 “Paintings and Drawings,” Adler Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

1980 “Drawings,” Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, 

Entrance Gallery 

1975 “Drawings,” Grandview Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 




2006 “Aligning with Abstract L.A.,” d.e.n. Contemporary Art, 

Culver City, CA 

2003 “ Lines,” Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, 

CA, curated by Judi Russell 

2000 “ Katarina Anderson, Clem Crosby, Carol Kaufman, 

Marie Rafalko, Brian Zinc,” Howard Yezerski Gallery, 

Boston, Massachusetts 

1998 “ Starting with MCLaughlin,” Patricia Faure Gallery, 


“ Selected Paintings & Works on Paper,” Modernism, 


1989 “Los Angeles Current Abstract Painting,” Marc Richards 

Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

1988 “ Small Works,” CA Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA 

“ Black and White Works,” Angles Gallery, 


1987 “Three,” Adler Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

“ Group Show,” Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY 

“ White Works,” Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 

1986 “Small Abstract Paintings,” Angeles Gallery, 


1985 “ Black and White Paintings from the David Nellis 

Collection,” California State University, LA, CA 

1981 “Southern California Artists,” Los Angeles Institute of 


REVIEWS 

2006 Hargreaves, Kathryn, “Precision Drawing: 

Carol Kaufman at d.e.n. contemporary art, 

The Arts District Citizen, August 

“Continuing and Recommended,” ArtScene, 

July/August 

2003 Holly Myers, “Simple Materials, Powerful Results,” 

Los Angeles Times 

1998 David Pagel, “Art Reviews,” Los Angeles Times 

1996 David Pagel, “Art Reviews,” Los Angeles Times 

1987 Kristine KcKenna, “The Galleries,” Los Angeles Times 

1984 William Wilson, “The Galleries,” Los Angeles Times 

SELECTED COLLECTIONS 

La Coleccion Jumex, Mexico 

Count Guiseppi Panza DiBiumo, Italy 

AWARDS/HONOR 

The Society of News Design, Excellence in Book Review 

Cover Design, four consecutive years starting in 2004 

The Society of News Design, Silver Award for Illustration 

portfolio in Book Review Cover Design, 2003 

Society of Illustrators, Gold Metal for Book Review 

Cover, 2003 

Society of Publication Design, Award for Book Review Cover, 

2003, 2006 

Print magazine Award/Regional Design Annual, Certificate of 

Excellence 2003 - 2005 

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCES 

Freelance Graphic designer and Event Planner 

2009 – Present (5 years)Greater Los Angeles Area 

KCT Productions, Freelance projects, 2009 - present 

Event planner and graphic designer to raise funds for various 

dog rescue organizations 

Designing the look for pilates/writer website. Poster for Deep 

Sea Diving (a workshop of writing and pilates in the desert) 

Jan Perry for Mayor, promotional material 

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Clovis Corp Educational, a non-profit organization, 

(designed brochure and business cards to raise funds and 

promote the new organization.) 

Brand Identity for movie, “Audrey Hepburn’s Neck” 

(an 8 page brochure and business card) 

Art Director for Book Review: 


2002 – July 2008 (6 years)Greater Los Angeles Area 

Art Director, Sunday Book Review, 2002 - 2008 

Designed covers and inside pages, hired free-lance 

professionals (illustrators, photographers) and led them to 

develop and implement design concepts. 

Design Editor - Los Angeles Times 

1993 – 2002 (9 years) Greater Los Angeles Area 

Design Editor, Feature News Sections, 1993 - 2002 

Responsible for designing covers and pages for Life & Style 

Section, Daily Calendar, Food Section and TV Times at 

various intervals. Applied enthusiasm and flair to fashion 

pages as well as others sections. Coordinated with editors; 

leverages skills to meet daily deadlines 

Art Director, TV Times 


1991 –- 1993 (2 years) Greater Los Angeles Area 

Responsible for covers and inside pages for the magazine, 

coordinated photo shoots, hired illustrations, made creative 

use of handout photos 

Associate Art Director, TV Times - Los Angeles Times 

1990 –- 1991 (1 year) Greater Los Angeles Area 

Implemented new technology for the weekly magazine 

from its launch. Worked with the Art Director to design a 

magazine about television that could compete with such 

exhisting weeklies as TV Guide. The result was increased 

circulation for the Los Angeles Times. 

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A Word from the Artist 

“My exploration has been a structure formed by repetitive 

organic lines or ruled lines creating an abstract mesmerizing 

surface. A surface of skin (like on the human body) reveals a 

moment in time, an experience that can be compex to simple 

or create nothing depending on the light of the day. 

My process is labor intensive mark making, and my tools are 

pencils or oil paint to represent (not a product that is flawless) 

an art work that has life on or beyond its surface and 

has no vocabulary except it’s own.” 

- Carol Kaufman 


Carolee Toon 

EDUCATION 

1987 MFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA 

1985 MA, California State University, Northridge, 

With Distinction 

1982 BA, California State University, Northridge, Summa 

Cum Laude 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS - ONE PERSON 

2007 Undercurrents, Mandarin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

2006 Fields, Mandarin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

2003 Incidents, Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

2001 Rubies & Shadows, Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

2000 New York, Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

1998 Paintings, Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

1996 Territories, Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

1996 After/Painting, Post Gallery, Los Angeles: curator for 

concurrent group exhibition 

1992 Paintings and Constructions, Mincher Wilcox Gallery, 


GROUP EXHIBITIONS 




2013 Forms of Abstraction, Irvine Fine Arts Center, curator 

Carl Berg 

2012 California Abstract Painting, Nau Rae Gallery, 

Woodbury University, curator JIm Hayward 

2009 Rebus Reconstructed, Eagle Rock Art Center, CA, 

curator, John O’Brien 

2008 Rebus, Amelia, Italy, curator, John O’Brien 

2006 A Little So Cal Abstraction, Mandarin Gallery, 

Kis Angeles, CA, curator, JIm Hayward 

2001 Different Strokes, Im N II Gallery, Brooklin, NY 

2000 White, Huntington Beach Art Center, CA 

2000 Eye Candy, California State University, San 

Bernardino Fullerton University Art Museum and 

California State University, Fullerton Grand Central 

Art Center; curator by Susan Joyce 

1999 Pushing Paint, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman 

University, Orange, CA ; curator, Maggie Owens 

1999 Singularities, at the Brewery Project, Los Angeles, 

drawing installment; curator John OBrien 

1998 Nuance, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

1998 Dressed in White, gallery Paradiso, Costa Mesa, CA 

1997 Outlooks, Alumni Invitational, California State 

University, Northridge, CA 

1997 Three Person Exhibit, Crockett Rodeo Gallery, 

Seattle, WA 

1997 Push, Miller Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA 

1996 Red Painting, Newscape Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

1996 Quirky Abstrations, L.A. Harbor College, Wilmington, CA 

1994-6 Plane Structures, Otis College of Design, curated by 

David Pagel, supported by: Fellows of the Arts, the 

National Endowment for the Arts, the Peter Norton 

Family Foundation and the Lunnan Foundation, L.A. 

Exhibit traveled to Renaissance Society, Chicago; 

Pittsburgh Center for the Arts; The Center for the 

Arts at Wesleyan University, Middleton, Conn; White 

Columns Gallery, NY; University of North Texas at 

Denton; The Institute for Contemporary Art, 

Las Vegas, CA 

1995 The Big Night for Colin Gardner, Bradbury Building, 

L.A., by Art Center College, CA 

1994 Detours, site installation, Side Street Projects, 


1993 Los Angeles, Not Painting?, Santa Barbara 

Contemporary Arts Forum and the Univeristy of 

Texas at Denton, curated by Randy Sommer 

1992 A Simplicity of Means, Two Person Exhibit, Pierce 

College Art Gallery 

1991 Window on L.A., Los Angeles International Art Fair at 

the Convention Center, curated by David Pagel 

BIBLIOGRAPHY: 

Book: Giueseppe Panza, “Memories of a Collector”, 2006 

Italy, 2007, U.S. 

REVIEWS: 

David Pagel, A Little So Cal Abstration, Los Angeles Times, 

Sept 15, 2006 

Peter Frank, A Little So Cal Abstration, LA Weekly, pick of 

the week, Sept. 27, 2006 

Peter Frank, Pick of the Week list, LA Weekly, Dec 9 2003 

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John O’Brien, Rubies & Shadows, Art Issues, Nov./Dec. 2001 

Rachel Yoens, Different Strokes, Brooklyn Rail, 

May/June 2001 

Devorah Knaff, Eye Candy, Press Enterprise, Orange County, 

April 19, 2000 

Michael Duncan, Art Reviews, Art in America, Oct. 1998 

David Pagel, Art Reviews, Los Angeles Times, April 10, 1998 

Josef Woodard, Postgraduate Work, Los Angeles Times/ 

Weekend, October 30, 1997 

Michael Darling, Art Issues, Jan. - Feb. , 1997 

David Pagel, Redefining the Borders of Abstration, 

Los Angeles Times, Nov. 14, 1996 

David Pagel, Toon’s Works Show Subtle, Sophisticated Touch, 

Los Angeles Times Calendar Section, Feb. 29, 1996 

Charles Dee Mitchell, Works in UNT Exhibit Are 

Monochromatic, But Multifaceted, Dallas Morning News, 

Jan. 1996 

Janet McCall, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Feb. 21, 1995 

William Wilson, PLane Structures at Otis; Enriching Work, 

Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section, Spet. 19, 1994 

Mario Cutajar, L.A. Abstration, Artweek, May 20, 1993 

Joan Crowder, Are They or Aren’t They?, Santa Barbara 

News-Press, April 16, 1993 

David Bonetti, Gallery Watch, San Francisco Examiner, 

May 15, 1992 

Kenneth Baker, Galleries, San Fancisco Chronicle, 

May 2, 1992 

AWARDS/GRANTS 

City of Los Angeles Cultural Grant, LA Place Projects Site 

Installations, 1990-91, 1992-3 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS 

Panza Collection, Varese, Italy 

Creative Artists Agency, Century City, CA 

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A Word About the Artist 

ART REVIEW 

April 10, 1998 | DAVID PAGEL 

Simple Yet . . . Not: It’s a pleasure to see Carolee Toon’s new 

paintings at Kiyo Higashi Gallery. Ravishingly beautiful, these 

sophisticated images of nothing but color demonstrate that 

highly refined abstractions are never too virtuous to play fast 

and loose with goofy humor. 

ENTERTAINMENT - Nov.14, 1996 | DAVID PAGEL, SPECIAL TO THE 

TIMES - Redefining the Borders of Abstraction 

Only eight months have passed since Carolee Toon’s last solo 

show in Los Angeles, but it’s enough time for the 59-year-old 

painter to have made some of the most exciting abstractions 

in recent memory. The two newest works in her splendid 

eight-painting exhibition at Kiyo Higashi Gallery represent 

a brilliant--and astonishingly simple--solution to a problem 

painting has had since frames fell out of fashion. 

LA TIMES: ART REVIEWS: Toon’s Works Show Subtle, 

Sophisticated Touch- Feb. 29, 1996|DAVID PAGEL 

No tricks or gimmicks dress up Toon’s mature works. Each 

consists of one, two or four square pieces of plywood, 

onto which the artist has painted an exquisitely textured 

surface of nearly microscopic precision. Color subtly seeps 

out of Toon’s paintings, like a delicate, almost undetectable 

flavor that melts on your tongue before you know it’s there. 

Her best surfaces don’t look like they’ve been applied with 

a brush but seem instead to have simply drifted onto the 

plywood. As another painter once said, “What you see is 

what you get.” The difference between his abstractions and 

Toon’s is that with hers, what you see always exceeds what 

you can get--especially if you believe that the experience of 

abstract art can be translated into words. 

Profoundly open-ended--and potentially endless--Toon’s 

paintings let viewers luxuriate in perceptions that gradually 

drift into consciousness. Her works flesh out a sensual 

territory that you can sense, even if you can’t put your 

finger on it.

Kiyo Higashi Catalogue

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