Jimi Gleason 2016 - Strata

JIMI GLEASON NEW WORKS

WILLIAM TURNER GALLERY

SURFACE AND LIGHT Jimi Gleason’s paintings are enigmatic. They emphasize seductive surfaces, which reveal no trace of traditional paint application. These mysterious surfaces are highly reactive to light, position and viewer - acting as catalysts for shifting perceptions. They are immediately understandable as paintings, though it’s difficult to imagine how they were created. Through the use of non-traditional materials and luminescent silver deposit, Gleason creates works that inspire an intimate reflection on the essence of how we perceive and experience the world around us.

Gleason’s most recent body of work is consistent with the iridescent paintings he has developed over the last decade, but marks a radical departure in execution. Using a silver-deposit surface coat, Gleason creates paintings that are ethereal and glassy - sheets of solid vapor that respond and react to the play of light and their environment. These newest paintings are saturated with brilliant colors bright coppers, rich ceruleans and glowing golds - adding more depth to the already lustrous surfaces, which seem to emanate light from within.

Uniting hard-edge geometric forms with his sensuously luminous surfaces, Gleason boldly breaks up

the picture plane into alternating fields of texture. The effect is a hypnotic and prismatic visual structure, where light, color and form intersect in ever-changing play. These dynamic surfaces engage the viewer and urge them to explore the infinite experiential possibilities of art.

Born in Newport Beach, CA, Gleason received his BA from UC Berkeley in 1985. He studied printmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute before relocating to New York City, where he worked as a photo assistant and photo technician. Returning to California, Gleason was employed in the studio of Ed Moses for five years. Combining the disparate technical and compositional skills developed during his exposure to printmaking, photography and mixed-media painting, Gleason is now the subject of considerable curatorial and critical applause. His work is exhibited in significant public institutions, including the Armand Hammer Museum, the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Seattle Art Museum, the Tucson Museum of Art and the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation. The artist’s paintings are actively collected by a growing number of major public and private collections around the world.

Untitled, 2016, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 72” x 60”

Untitled, 2016, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 72” x 60”

Untitled, 2016, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 66” x 54”

Untitled, 2016, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 66” x 54”

Bright Star, 2016, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 66” x 54”

Ano Nuevo, 2015, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 66” x 54”

Untitled, 2016, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 66” x 54”

Shooting Star, 2016, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 48” x 86”

Untitled, 2016, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 32” x 28”

Untitled, 2016, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 32” x 28”

Untitled, 2016, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 53” x 48”

Untitled, 2016, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 53” x 48”

Untitled, 2016, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 32” x 28”

Untitled, 2016, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 32” x 28”

Untitled, 2016, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 53” x 48”

Untitled, 2016, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 53” x 48”

Avalanche, 2016, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 88� x 76�

Time Place Continuum, in process at Jennifer Wolf’s studio

54th Street (Grid Fade), 2016, acrylic on canvas, 72” x 60”

Rincon, 2016, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 88” x 76”

Pua’Ena Point, 2015, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 84” x 60”

The Wedge, 2016, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 84” x 60”

Fort Point, 2015, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 72” x 60”

Laniakea, 2016, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 48” x 86”

Deep Ocean Vast Sea, 2015, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 53� x 48�

Found #2, 2015, wood, copper rails and paint, 71x150 inches

Untitled, 2016, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 48” x 53”

K38, 2015, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 66” x 54”

Ano Nuevo, 2015, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 66” x 54”

Secret Spot, 2016, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 60” x 60”

Lowers, 2015, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 26” x 26”

Uppers, 2015, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 26” x 26”

Untitled, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 20”x16”

Untitled, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 24”x16”

Untitled, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 18” x 18”

Untitled, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 18� x 18�

Detail - Gravitational Push

Untitled, 2016, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 14” x 11”

Untitled, 2016, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, 14” x 11”

JIMI GLEASON SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016 2015

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William Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA William Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA Toomey-Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA RB Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Toomey-Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA Samuel Freeman, Los Angeles, CA Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Works on Paper, Philadelphia, PA LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Toomey-Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA Samuel Freeman, Los Angeles, CA Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Toomey-Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Kidder-Smith Gallery, Boston, MA Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Works on Paper, Philadelphia, PA LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Toomey-Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Kidder-Smith Gallery, Boston, MA Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA New Urban Art, Phoenix, AZ Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Edward Giardina Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA Dakota Studio, New York, NY 637 Gallery, New York, NY SFA, New York, NY The World, New York, NY Clancy Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 2015 2014

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Strata, William Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Ethereal, William Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Mixed Media, A Group Exhibition, RB Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA Green Heaven, RB Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA Now and Then, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Gold Rush, Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ Skin Deep, William Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 20th Anniversary Group Show, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA The 10th Circle, Vast Space Projects, Henderson, NV Winter Group Show, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Liquid Pop, Koki Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan Mixed Media, RB Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA Color Queries, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Transcending Abstraction-Perspectives in Reductive Art, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Silver Lining, SeeLine Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Winter Group Show, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Elements of Nature, Selections from the Frederick Weisman Art Foundation, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA Just Enough, RB Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA Elements of Nature, Selections from the Frederick R. Weismann Art Foundation, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA Well-Tempered, RB Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA A Three Legged Table, Samuel Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA The New Irascibles, AC Projects, Pomona, CA East/West, Royale Projects, Palm Desert, CA Gallery Artists, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA The Surface of Space II, Phantom Galleries, Long Beach, CA 2332, Huntington Bach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA Ten, Toomey-Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA Liquid Light, MODAA, Culver City, CA. Supermarket, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA. The Surface of Space, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA In Focus, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Reprise, RB Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA Liquid Light, dba Gallery 256, Pomona, CA An Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Dan Leach Collection,�

Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ West Coast Abstraction, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Selected Works, RB Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA Pink, Soho Myriad, Atlanta GA Palette to Palate, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

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Abstraction Reduced to White, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA One Shot, LA X ART, Los Angeles, CA Summer Group Show, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Nice Work if You Can Get It, Mandarin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Pink III, Arena One Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Jimi Gleason and Thomas Zitwitz, RB Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA Grey Scale, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA Abstract Los Angeles, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA Mass {RE}Production, College of Santa Fe, NM 20/20 Visions, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Pink, Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Small Works Exhibit, LewAllen Contemporary, NM Big & Holy, Cartelle Gallery, Los Angeles, CA BIG, Toomey-Tourell Fine Art, 511 Harrison, San Francisco, CA The OsCene, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA Twentieth Anniversary Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, LA, CA Ed Moses and Jimi Gleason, HB Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA Abstract Los Angeles, Soho Myriad Gallery, Atlanta, GA Heavens Gonna Burn Your Eyes, Cartelle Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Modes and Methods, Contemporary Art Museum, Amarillo, TX Pink, Cartelle Gallery, Los Angeles, CA White on White, Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

SELECTED COLLECTIONS Glenn Schaeffer, Las Vegas, NV Sun America / Kaufman Broad Home Corporation, Los Angeles, CA Larry Bell, Venice, CA Joe Goode, Venice, CA David C. Copley, La Jolla, CA Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA The Dan Leach Collection, Tucson, AZ Dakota Studios, New York, NY Mitch and Linda Katz, Laguna Beach, CA Ed Moses, Venice, CA Tony and Kathy DeLap, Corona Del Mar, CA Gajin Fujita, Los Angeles, CA The MGM Grand, Detroit, Michigan Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, NV Hilton HQ, McLean, VA EDUCATION 1985-86 1985

San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA BFA, University of California, Berkeley, CA