Ronnie Landfield
Ronnie Landfield (1947- ) is in American abstract painter, who was associated with Lyrical Abstraction from the mid-sixties through the mid-seventies. During the eighties and early nineties he showed his paintings with the Charles Cowles Gallery and Stephen Haller Fine Arts in New York. He's been represented by the Salander/O'Reilly Gallery in New York since 1997. In October 2005 he had a solo exhibition of his paintings at the Heidi Cho Gallery in Chelsea. A veteran of more than sixty solo exhibitions and hundreds of group exhibitions he is best known for his abstract landscape paintings.
Born January 9, 1947 in The Bronx, New York, Landfield began exhibiting his work in New York City in 1962.
As a student he graduated from the High School of Art & Design in June 1963. He attended the Kansas City Art Institute from late August 1963 until early November 1963. In February 1964 he traveled to Los Angeles and he settled in Berkeley,California in March 1964. He briefly attended the University of California at Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute, before finally returning to New York City in July 1965.
In 1964-1966 he experimented with Minimal Art, sculpture, hard edge geometric painting, found objects, and finally began his series of 15 mystical hallways. The hallways series was completed in July 1966. Architect Philip Johnson acquired Tan Painting for the permanent collection of The Sheldon Memorial Museum in Lincoln.Nebraska.
In early 1967 he began exhibiting his large abstract paintings in leading galleries and museums. During his early career in the sixties and seventies he was represented by the David Whitney Gallery, and the Andre Emmerich Gallery.
His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Norton Simon Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, Stanford University amongst numerous others. Currently he teaches at The Art Students League of New York.
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