Ronnie Landfield
Ronnie Landfield is an American abstract painter, born January 9, 1947 in The Bronx, New York. During his early career from the mid-sixties through the seventies his paintings were associated with Lyrical Abstraction and he was represented by the David Whitney Gallery, and by the Andre Emmerich Gallery. A veteran of more than sixty solo exhibitions and hundreds of group exhibitions he is best known for his abstract landscape paintings.
Early Career
Landfield began exhibiting his work in New York City in 1962. He studied painting by visiting important museum and gallery exhibitions in New York City during the early sixties and by taking painting and drawing classes at the Art Students League of New York and in Woodstock, New York. He graduated from the High School of Art & Design in June 1963. Briefly attended the Kansas City Art Institute returning to New York City in November 1963. In February 1964 he traveled to Los Angeles. He settled in Berkeley, California in March 1964 where he began painting hard-edge abstractions primarily with acrylic paint. 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 a series of fifteen -- 9' x 6' , mystical border paintings. The Border Painting series was completed in July 1966, and soon after architect Philip Johnson acquired Tan Painting for the permanent collection of The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska.
In late 1966 through 1968 he began exhibiting his paintings and works on paper in leading galleries and museums. His work was included in group exhibitions at the legendary Park Place Gallery, the Bianchini Gallery, the Bykert Gallery, the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts (Stanford University Museum of Art) amongst other places. Two drawings were reproduced in S.M.S.by the Letter Edged in Black Press and he was included in New York 10, a portfolio of prints published by Tanglewood Press.
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, The Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, New York University, Stanford University amongst numerous others.
Recent
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. Currently he teaches at The Art Students League of New York. Landfield's two sons are artists who live in New York, Matthew Hart Landfield is an actor/writer/director and Noah Landfield is a painter/musician.
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