Carol Kaufman

CAROL KAUFMAN

I define Carol Kaufman works between imageless paintings and soundless music, working in singular colors and geometrical encounters requires a different way of seeing ground and object. There’s an organic component that she gently directs that is purifying and quieting.

These pure canvases displayed mostly the time as a diptych had as much a religious motivation as an artistic one, meaning these canvases stood for purity in painting, purity of moment, purity of form, purity of intention and purity of faith.

Her work gives us the vantage of being able to re-experience a feeling again and again. Colour being the ‘abstract spacematter’ allows us to see depths and shallows more spectacular, momentary and eternal than is possible in any other form. If the ultimate expression of minimalism is pure optical experience, how can such an experience be arbitrary?

Anna Dusi

Sunburst, 2022, Oil Paint and graphite on gesso canvas (diptych) 13 x 22 in., $4000

Grace, 2022, Oil Paint and graphite on gesso canvas (diptych) 13 x 22 in., $4000

Blush, 2022, Oil Paint and graphite on gesso canvas (diptych) 13 x 22 in., $4000

Visibility, 2022, Oil Paint and graphite on gesso canvas (diptych) 13 x 22 in., $4000

Humidity, 2022, Oil Paint and graphite on gesso canvas (diptych) 13 x 22 in., $4000

Frost, 2022, Oil Paint and graphite on gesso canvas (diptych) 13 x 10 in., $2300

Midnight, 2022, Oil Paint and graphite on gesso canvas (diptych) 13 x 10 in., $2300

Candy, 2022, Oil Paint and graphite on gesso canvas (diptych) 13 x 10 in., $2300

Uneven I, 2022, Oil Paint and graphite on linen (diptych)17 x 11 in., top panel: 9” bottom: 8”, $2700

Uneven II, 2022, Oil Paint and graphite on linen (diptych)17 x 11 in., top panel: 9” bottom: 8”, $2700

CAROL KAUFMAN

My exploration has been a structure formed by repetitive organic lines or ruled lines creating an abstract mesmerizing surface. A surface of skin (like on the human body) reveal a moment in time, an experience that can be complex to simple or create “nothing” depending on the light of the day. My process is labor intensive mark making, and my tools are pencils or oil paint to represent (not a product that is flawless) an art work that has life on or beyond its surface and has no vocabulary except its own.

EXHIBITIONS

Solo and Selected Group Exhibitions

2022 “Werft Schaum”, group exhibit Braunschweig, Germany

“Trace versus space,” duo solo exhibit, Marion Jungeblut and Carol Kaufman, Kunsthaus BBK, Braunschweig, Germany

“Observant Touches,” group exhibit, Claremont Graduate University, East & Peggy Phelps Galleries, Claremont, CA

2021 “Here and There,” group exhibit, Woodbury College, Burbank, CA

2014 “Distilled Essence”: Selected Artwork from the Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA

2013 “In Direct Light,” Nan Rae Art Gallery, Woodbury College, Burbank CA

2006 “Drawings,” d.e.n. contemporary art, Culver City, CA

2019 “Five,” Baik Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“ReVerb,” (artists collected by Panza) Baik Art Gallery, Los Angeles CA

2018 “Random” Paul Willams Gallery, Ontario, CA

2017 “Linearity,” Paul Willams Gallery, Ontario, CA

“Cool, Calm and Collected,” Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

“The Art of the Cooks of Peace Press,” Arena One Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2016 “Kiyo Higashi Collection,” Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2008 Group Show, Costello • Childs Contemporary Fine Art Resources, Scottsdale, Arizona

2006 “Aligning with Abstract L.A.,” d.e.n. contemporary art, Culver City, CA

2003 “Lines,” Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2000 “Katarina Anderson, Clem Crosby, Carol Kaufman, Marie Rafalko, Brian Zinc,” Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts Group Show, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2015 “XX Redux: Revisiting a Feminist Art Collective, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman College, Orange, CA

2000 “New Work,” Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1998 “Paintings,” Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“Starting with MCLaughlin,” Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“Selected Paintings & Works on Paper,” Modernism, San Francisco, CA

1996 “New Work,” Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1981 Southern California Artist, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, curated by Barbara Haskell

1980 “Drawings,” Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Entrance Gallery

1989 “Los Angeles Current Abstract Painting,” Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles

1977 Twenty Four-Southern California Women Artists, Ceritos College

1988 “Small Works,” California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

“Black and White Works,” Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1987 “Paintings,” Adler Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Three, Adler Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Group Show, Stephen Heller Gallery, New York, NY White Works, Angeles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1986 Small Abstract Paintings, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1976 Double X Group Show, California State, San Bernardino, CA

1975 “Drawings,” Grandview Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Sensibilities, Wilshire West Plaza, Westwood, CA

Group Show, 58F Plaza Gallery, Orange, CA

Group Show, Grandview Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1974 “Drawings,” Feminist Studio Workshop Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Selected / Group

“Concurrent Values,” Mill House, City of Garden Grove, CA

1985 Black and White Paintings from David Nellis Collection, California State University, CA

“Invitational Drawing Show,” 58F Plaza Gallery, Orange, CA

“Up and Coming Artists Group Show,” Women’s Building Community Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“Grandview One & Two,” Pomona Public Library, Pomona, CA

1984 “Paintings and Drawings,” Adler Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“Grandview Group Show,” Grandview Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Rental Gallery, Newport Harbor ARt Musuem, Newport, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2017 “The Art of the Cooks of Peace Press”, catalogue of a group show,

2015 “XX Redux-Revisiting a Feminist Art collective” catalogue of group show,

1977 Faith Wilding, “Twenty Four Women Making Art,” Artweek Faith Wilding, “By Our Own Hands”, a book of the history of So. California women’s movement in the 1970’s, “Twenty Four Women Making Art,” catalogue of group show (photo and statement of work)

2006 Hargreaves, Kathryn, “Precision Drawing: Carol Kaufman at d.e.n. contemporary art,” The Arts District Citizen, “Continuing and Recommended," ArtScene, July/August

1974 “Concurrent Values”, catalogue of group show (photo and bio of work)

2003 Holly Myers, “Simple Materials, Powerful Results,” Los Angeles Times

SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

La Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico

Count Guiseppi Panza DiBiumo, Milan,Italy

1998 David Pagel, “Art Reviews,” Los Angeles Times David Pagel, “This McLaughlin Group Proves Very Rewarding” Los Angeles Times

Joel Wachs, New York City, New York

1996 David Pagel, “Art Reviews,” Los Angeles Times

1987 Kristine McKenna, “The Galleries,” Los Angeles Times

EDUCATION

1971-74 B.F.A California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California

1973-74 Feminist Studio Workshop

1984 William Wilson, “The Galleries,” Los Angeles Times

1970-71 Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts