L.A. Louver is an art gallery focusing on American and European

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. The gallery is located in

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, United States.

Directors

The gallery directors are Peter Goulds, Kimberly Davis, and Elizabeth East. Lisa Jann is the Managing Director. The gallery is a member of the Art Dealers Association of America.

Artists

Established in 1976, the gallery represents the following notable artists: * Terry Allen *

Tony Berlant Anthony Hanna Berlant (born 1941) is an American artist who was born in New York City. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he received a BA (1961) and MA (1962) in painting and an MFA (1963) in sculpture. He has a larg ...

Tony Bevan Tony Bevan (born 1951) is a British painter, known for his psychologically charged images of people at the edge of respectable society. Biography Bevan was born in Bradford, Yorkshire. He studied at Bradford School of Art from 1968 to 1971, fo ...

* William Brice *

Deborah Butterfield Deborah Kay Butterfield (born May 7, 1949) is an American sculptor. Along with her artist-husband John Buck, she divides her time between a farm in Bozeman, Montana, and studio space in Hawaii. She is known for her sculptures of horses made f ...

* Rebecca Campbell * Dale Chihuly * Richard Deacon *

Mark di Suvero Marco Polo di Suvero (born September 18, 1933, in Shanghai, China), better known as Mark di Suvero, is an abstract expressionist sculptor and 2010 National Medal of Arts recipient. Biography Early life and education Marco Polo di Suvero was bor ...

Gajin Fujita is a graffiti artist from East Los Angeles. He is a member of LA graffiti crews K2S (Kill 2 Succeed) and KGB (Kids Gone Bad). Background and education He was born in 1972 to Japanese parents. Fujita holds an MFA from the University of Nevada, Las ...

* Charles Garabedian *

David Hockney David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists o ...

Frederick Hammersley Frederick Hammersley (January 5, 1919 – May 31, 2009) was an American abstract painter. His participation in the 1959 '' Four Abstract Classicists'' exhibit secured his place in art history. Early years Frederick Hammersley was born in Salt ...

* Ben Jackel * Edward & Nancy Reddin Kienholz * Per Kirkeby * Leon Kossoff *

Guillermo Kuitca Guillermo Kuitca (born 1961 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine artist, who continues to work and live in Buenos Aires. Kuitca's work has been shown extensively around the globe, and is included in many important public collections, including The T ...

* R.B. Kitaj *

Jonathan Lasker Jonathan Lasker (born 1948) is an American abstract painter whose work has played an integral role in the development of Postmodern Painting. He currently lives and works in New York City. Lasker has been awarded National Endowment for the Arts ...

* Jason Martin *

Enrique Martínez Celaya Enrique Martínez Celaya (born June 9, 1964) is a contemporary Cuban-born painter, sculptor, author and former scientist whose work has been exhibited and collected by major institutions around the world. He trained and worked as a physicist, com ...

* Michael C. McMillen * Ed Moses *

Gwynn Murrill Gwynn Murrill (born 1942) is an American sculptor. A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Murrill earned her Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is known most especially for her animal sculptures in a variety ...

* Ken Price * Sandra Mendelsohn Rubin * Alison Saar *

Sean Scully Sean Scully (born 30 June 1945) is an Irish-born American-based artist working as a painter, printmaker, sculptor and photographer. His work is held in museum collections worldwide and he has twice been named a Turner Prize nominee. Moving fro ...

Joel Shapiro Joel Shapiro (born September 27, 1941 New York City, New York) is an American sculptor renowned for his dynamic work composed of simple rectangular shapes. The artist is classified as a Minimalist as demonstrated in his works, which were mostly ...

* Peter Shelton * Don Suggs *

Juan Uslé Juan Uslé Oceja (born 1954) is a Spanish contemporary painter. His work varies between abstraction and figurative representation. In 2002, he received the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas, a national arts prize awarded by the Ministerio d ...

* Fred Williams * Tom Wudl

Design

The building that houses the gallery was designed by architect Frederick Fisher.arcspace catalogue

References

External links

L.A. Louver WebsiteGaijin Fujita at L.A. Louver
Art museums and galleries in Los Angeles Contemporary art galleries in the United States Venice, Los Angeles Art galleries established in 1976 1976 establishments in California {{LosAngeles-struct-stub