In conjunction with Pacific Standard Time, Rosamund Felsen Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of historic works from the 1970’s by Charles Arnoldi. For the first time in decades, these important early works by Arnoldi will be viewable in a single exhibition.
Soon after landing in Los Angeles from his native Ohio in the 1964, Arnoldi set out to impact and help shape our conception of art in Los Angeles. Beginning in 1969, when, at the age of 23, he took home LACMA’s Young Talent Award, Arnoldi began an evolving series of works utilizing found sticks as both material and motif. The works vary a great deal from piece to piece, but they all share a kind of hybridized place within the conventions of a specific art medium. They are part sculpture (they have obvious dimension) yet they’re painterly and gestural too (they create illusion). These works are featured prominently in this exhibition, not only because they helped propel Arnoldi into a long and prolific career (which remains vigorous), but also because they foreshadow an important and lasting conversation about the structures and perceived delineations at the nexus of painting-drawing-sculpture. Form more information on the work of Charles Arnoldi, click here.