November 15, 2025 – January 10, 2026 Perspective and Plane
Louis Stern Fine Arts is pleased to present Perspective and Plane, a group exhibition
featuring pairs of works by the gallery’s estate and contemporary artists. Known for its
championing of historical artists like Lorser Feitelson, Helen Lundeberg, Karl Benjamin,
and Alfredo Ramos Martínez, Louis Stern Fine Arts has also fostered the careers of
contemporary living artists, including James Little, Mark Leonard, Mokha Laget, and
Cecilia Z. Miguez.
Perspective and Plane merges these two aspects of the gallery’s program. Works by
estate artists are presented in tandem with works by contemporary artists affiliated with
Louis Stern Fine Arts. Each work dialogues with its counterpart from a different era,
taking disparate approaches to similar subject matter or kindred aesthetic concerns; new
themes and interpretations emerge through the juxtaposition of past and present.
Paintings by Doug Ohlson and Mokha Laget both chafe and struggle against the
predetermined boundaries of the traditional canvas, while Lorser Feitelson’s sinuous
red line in a spare composition is reflected in three dimensions by the negative space in
Knopp Ferro’s hanging metal sculpture. Frederick Wight abstracts and elongates the
moon’s motion across the sky into a beam of light that is compacted and contained in
Chen Ruo Bing’s adjacent painting. Karl Benjamin and James Little dazzle with
contrasting patterns in a push-pull dance.
Heather Hutchison and Helen Lundeberg capture the elusiveness of fleeting light in
sculptural and painting form. Richard Wilson’s multi-toned grid is transmuted into the
welcoming glow of open windows when placed beside Mark Feldstein’s black-and-
white photograph of shuttered windows on a building’s façade. Cecilia Z. Miguez and
Ynez Johnston play with vertical frieze patterns of mysterious narrative imagery across
vastly different scales, while Mark Leonard and Alfredo Ramos Martínez question the
roles and meanings of architectural and communal spaces through absence and
presence.
Louis Stern Fine Arts represents the Estates of Karl Benjamin, Doug Ohlson,
Frederick Wight, Lorser Feitelson, Ynez Johnston, Mark Feldstein, Helen Lundeberg,
and Alfredo Ramos Martínez.
Louis Stern Fine Arts is pleased to present Perspective and Plane, a group exhibition
featuring pairs of works by the gallery’s estate and contemporary artists. Known for its
championing of historical artists like Lorser Feitelson, Helen Lundeberg, Karl Benjamin,
and Alfredo Ramos Martínez, Louis Stern Fine Arts has also fostered the careers of
contemporary living artists, including James Little, Mark Leonard, Mokha Laget, and
Cecilia Z. Miguez.
Perspective and Plane merges these two aspects of the gallery’s program. Works by
estate artists are presented in tandem with works by contemporary artists affiliated with
Louis Stern Fine Arts. Each work dialogues with its counterpart from a different era,
taking disparate approaches to similar subject matter or kindred aesthetic concerns; new
themes and interpretations emerge through the juxtaposition of past and present.
Paintings by Doug Ohlson and Mokha Laget both chafe and struggle against the
predetermined boundaries of the traditional canvas, while Lorser Feitelson’s sinuous
red line in a spare composition is reflected in three dimensions by the negative space in
Knopp Ferro’s hanging metal sculpture. Frederick Wight abstracts and elongates the
moon’s motion across the sky into a beam of light that is compacted and contained in
Chen Ruo Bing’s adjacent painting. Karl Benjamin and James Little dazzle with
contrasting patterns in a push-pull dance.
Heather Hutchison and Helen Lundeberg capture the elusiveness of fleeting light in
sculptural and painting form. Richard Wilson’s multi-toned grid is transmuted into the
welcoming glow of open windows when placed beside Mark Feldstein’s black-and-
white photograph of shuttered windows on a building’s façade. Cecilia Z. Miguez and
Ynez Johnston play with vertical frieze patterns of mysterious narrative imagery across
vastly different scales, while Mark Leonard and Alfredo Ramos Martínez question the
roles and meanings of architectural and communal spaces through absence and
presence.
Louis Stern Fine Arts represents the Estates of Karl Benjamin, Doug Ohlson,
Frederick Wight, Lorser Feitelson, Ynez Johnston, Mark Feldstein, Helen Lundeberg,
and Alfredo Ramos Martínez.
20 July - 5 October 2025 Lucent Ground Contemporary Perspectives on Abstraction
GW Contemporary is pleased to present Lucent Ground: Contemporary Perspectives on Abstraction, the gallery’s inaugural exhibition, on view from July 20 through October 5, 2025. Curated by gallery founder Genevieve Williams, the exhibition brings together eleven international artists whose practices engage materiality and perception in deeply considered, often unexpected ways.
Lucent Ground explores surface, form, and visual experience - foregrounding artists whose works reward close looking. Subtle shifts in material and structure offer new ways of seeing, revealing a world where surfaces become thresholds, dimensionality is in flux, and structure and spontaneity exist in quiet tension.
Informed by movements such as Light and Space, minimalism, and post-minimal abstraction, the exhibition evokes a heightened sensitivity to light, texture, and the act of perception. Optical phenomena hover and recede; compositions unfold slowly, inviting a slowed way of looking - one attuned to nuance, reflection, and the physical presence of each object.
Featured artists include Larry Bell, Laddie John Dill, Heather Hutchison, Gary Lang, Jan Maarten Voskuil, Jonny Niesche, Mark Whalen, Rosalind Tallmadge, Will Cooke, Line Busch, and Nobuhito Nishigawara. Spanning multiple generations and geographies - including Southern California, New York, Australia, and Europe - their practices share a commitment to exploring abstraction as a space of inquiry, transformation, and poetic material engagement.
Located directly across from the Laguna Art Museum, GW Contemporary presents a curator-led program that fosters dialogue between emerging and established voices from the U.S., Australia, and beyond. Lucent Ground marks the beginning of a cross-cultural platform rooted in creative exchange, perceptual depth, and material exploration.
GW Contemporary is pleased to present Lucent Ground: Contemporary Perspectives on Abstraction, the gallery’s inaugural exhibition, on view from July 20 through October 5, 2025. Curated by gallery founder Genevieve Williams, the exhibition brings together eleven international artists whose practices engage materiality and perception in deeply considered, often unexpected ways.
Lucent Ground explores surface, form, and visual experience - foregrounding artists whose works reward close looking. Subtle shifts in material and structure offer new ways of seeing, revealing a world where surfaces become thresholds, dimensionality is in flux, and structure and spontaneity exist in quiet tension.
Informed by movements such as Light and Space, minimalism, and post-minimal abstraction, the exhibition evokes a heightened sensitivity to light, texture, and the act of perception. Optical phenomena hover and recede; compositions unfold slowly, inviting a slowed way of looking - one attuned to nuance, reflection, and the physical presence of each object.
Featured artists include Larry Bell, Laddie John Dill, Heather Hutchison, Gary Lang, Jan Maarten Voskuil, Jonny Niesche, Mark Whalen, Rosalind Tallmadge, Will Cooke, Line Busch, and Nobuhito Nishigawara. Spanning multiple generations and geographies - including Southern California, New York, Australia, and Europe - their practices share a commitment to exploring abstraction as a space of inquiry, transformation, and poetic material engagement.
Located directly across from the Laguna Art Museum, GW Contemporary presents a curator-led program that fosters dialogue between emerging and established voices from the U.S., Australia, and beyond. Lucent Ground marks the beginning of a cross-cultural platform rooted in creative exchange, perceptual depth, and material exploration.
Press Release- Heather Hutchison: Seeker | April 17-May 31, 2025
New York
Heather Hutchison: Seeker
April 17th - May 31st, 2025
Opening reception with the artist: April 17th, 2025, 6pm - 8pm
Winston Wächter Fine Art is pleased to announce Heather Hutchison: Seeker, its third exhibition of New York-based artist Heather Hutchison. Hutchison’s luminous three dimensional paintings manipulate light, color and shadow to create works that evoke landscapes and weather patterns while remaining in constant flux. The works in this exhibition span from the late 1980s to today. Looking at Hutchison’s ongoing andrecurring study of the natural world’s dynamic force, art critic Eleanor Heartney writes:
From the outside, the boxes are solid, workaday and finite, but inside they seem to have expanded to contain indeterminate depths. Their mysterious contents respond to the surrounding light and change as the viewer moves. Inside the boxes, light emanates from diffuse bands of color, seeps through translucent orbs and bounces off rippling waves. Forms are evoked but refuse to completely resolve. Instead, like half
recovered memories, they conjure the mere suggestion of glowing sunsets, reflective waters, mist covered hills, moonlit plains, low lying fog and recently the blaze and smoke of wildfires and cloud feedback.
Hutchison has long been a keen observer of nature and has for decades been inspired by the human experiences of love, joy, loss and death. Hutchison’s work has always sought movement as a priority, beginning in the late 1980s with her translucent
beeswax pieces, painted on a plexiglass surface covering a shadow box. These paintings utilized the depth and structure of the plywood box, which remained visible and framed them. Hutchison went on to alter the plexiglass itself, scoring and bending
the plane on which she worked. In the past decade she has utilized materials such as gels, tape and mirrors, making the light contained within her pieces more kinetic and illustrating the truism that the only constant is change.
In Bisbee, Arizona, while attending a recent residency at the Central School Project, an organization housed in the same building where she attended elementary school, Hutchison began incorporating orbs, lines, arches and curves into her work, inspired by the play of the light in the Mule Mountains. These pieces emphasize the multidimensional aspect of her work, which has been a constant. In her triptych Night
Break, panels within the boxes boomerang the light through the painted, smokey-green plexiglass. The light moves with the viewer, like the moon on a calm sea. The weightlessness of the piece is anchored by a horizontal lavender band across the
bottom of the three panels.
In the essay accompanying the exhibition “Heather Hutchison’s Living Light”, Eleanor Heartney states, “Transmuting her experiences and emotions into pure light and color, Hutchison creates meditative spaces where we might pause and reinforce our own
connections to earth, sky and spirit.”
Heather Hutchison was born in Corvallis, OR, in 1964. She was raised between coastal Oregon, Marin County and the southern border in Bisbee, Arizona. Her
self-directed studies as an artist brought her from the San Francisco Bay Area to New York City in 1986. She currently works and resides in Woodstock, New York. Hutchison has been included in numerous museum exhibitions including those at the Brooklyn Museum, Montclair Art Museum, the Smithsonian, the Knoxville Museum of Art, and the 44th Biennial Exhibition of American Painting at the Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington D.C. Her work is held in several public collections including the Brooklyn Museum, Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Hutchison’s works have been featured in publications such as The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Art Forum, The Los Angeles Times, Artnews, and Art in America.
New York
Heather Hutchison: Seeker
April 17th - May 31st, 2025
Opening reception with the artist: April 17th, 2025, 6pm - 8pm
Winston Wächter Fine Art is pleased to announce Heather Hutchison: Seeker, its third exhibition of New York-based artist Heather Hutchison. Hutchison’s luminous three dimensional paintings manipulate light, color and shadow to create works that evoke landscapes and weather patterns while remaining in constant flux. The works in this exhibition span from the late 1980s to today. Looking at Hutchison’s ongoing andrecurring study of the natural world’s dynamic force, art critic Eleanor Heartney writes:
From the outside, the boxes are solid, workaday and finite, but inside they seem to have expanded to contain indeterminate depths. Their mysterious contents respond to the surrounding light and change as the viewer moves. Inside the boxes, light emanates from diffuse bands of color, seeps through translucent orbs and bounces off rippling waves. Forms are evoked but refuse to completely resolve. Instead, like half
recovered memories, they conjure the mere suggestion of glowing sunsets, reflective waters, mist covered hills, moonlit plains, low lying fog and recently the blaze and smoke of wildfires and cloud feedback.
Hutchison has long been a keen observer of nature and has for decades been inspired by the human experiences of love, joy, loss and death. Hutchison’s work has always sought movement as a priority, beginning in the late 1980s with her translucent
beeswax pieces, painted on a plexiglass surface covering a shadow box. These paintings utilized the depth and structure of the plywood box, which remained visible and framed them. Hutchison went on to alter the plexiglass itself, scoring and bending
the plane on which she worked. In the past decade she has utilized materials such as gels, tape and mirrors, making the light contained within her pieces more kinetic and illustrating the truism that the only constant is change.
In Bisbee, Arizona, while attending a recent residency at the Central School Project, an organization housed in the same building where she attended elementary school, Hutchison began incorporating orbs, lines, arches and curves into her work, inspired by the play of the light in the Mule Mountains. These pieces emphasize the multidimensional aspect of her work, which has been a constant. In her triptych Night
Break, panels within the boxes boomerang the light through the painted, smokey-green plexiglass. The light moves with the viewer, like the moon on a calm sea. The weightlessness of the piece is anchored by a horizontal lavender band across the
bottom of the three panels.
In the essay accompanying the exhibition “Heather Hutchison’s Living Light”, Eleanor Heartney states, “Transmuting her experiences and emotions into pure light and color, Hutchison creates meditative spaces where we might pause and reinforce our own
connections to earth, sky and spirit.”
Heather Hutchison was born in Corvallis, OR, in 1964. She was raised between coastal Oregon, Marin County and the southern border in Bisbee, Arizona. Her
self-directed studies as an artist brought her from the San Francisco Bay Area to New York City in 1986. She currently works and resides in Woodstock, New York. Hutchison has been included in numerous museum exhibitions including those at the Brooklyn Museum, Montclair Art Museum, the Smithsonian, the Knoxville Museum of Art, and the 44th Biennial Exhibition of American Painting at the Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington D.C. Her work is held in several public collections including the Brooklyn Museum, Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Hutchison’s works have been featured in publications such as The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Art Forum, The Los Angeles Times, Artnews, and Art in America.
Los Angeles
A Survey Exhibition: Louis Stern Fine Arts Through the Decades
9002 Melrose Avenue | West Hollywood, CA 90069
January 27-March 9, 2024
https://www.louissternfinearts.com/exhibitions/a-survey-exhibition-louis-stern-fine-arts-through-the-decades/selected-works1#tab:thumbnails;tab-1:thumbnails
A Survey Exhibition: Louis Stern Fine Arts Through the Decades
9002 Melrose Avenue | West Hollywood, CA 90069
January 27-March 9, 2024
https://www.louissternfinearts.com/exhibitions/a-survey-exhibition-louis-stern-fine-arts-through-the-decades/selected-works1#tab:thumbnails;tab-1:thumbnails