Ronnie Landfield
Ronnie Landfield (1947- ) is an 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 young student he studied painting at the Art Students League in New York and in Woodstock, New York. At sixteen 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 Kansas City he painted primarily abstract expressionist works with oil paint on canvas and masonite, and casein on canvas and paper. After returning to New York City in November 1963 he shared a loft with a friend who was also a young painter on Bleeker Street near the Bowery. He began using masking tape and hard-edges in his new paintings that season. In February 1964 he traveled to Los Angeles. He settled in Berkeley,California in March 1964. He began painting hard-edge abstractions primarily with acrylic paint in Berkeley. 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 nine' x six' mystical hallways. The hallway 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 late 1966 and early 1967 he began exhibiting his large abstract paintings and works on paper in leading galleries and museums. His work was included in two invitational group exhibitions at the legendary Park Place Gallery, the Bianchini Gallery, the Sheldon Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and in 1968 the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Studio Museum of Harlem, and the Leland Stanford Museum of Art amongst other places. Two drawings were reproduced in S.M.S.by the Letter Edged in Black Press. 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 National Gallery,The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Norton Simon Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Walker Art Center, Stanford University amongst numerous others. Currently he teaches at The Art Students League of New York.
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