Quint Gallery

Going through the archives of Kim MacConnel and finding a treasure trove of monumentally-scaled public, commercial and residential projects he’s completed in his prolific career, ranging from murals, sculpture, painted furniture, to a Moroccan restaurant in NYC’s East Village in the 90s.

Amidst all of that, he has participated in major exhibitions like the Whitney Biennials of 1975, 1977, 1979,1980, and 1985; The Venice Biennale, The Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, inSite Editions 1992/94, a career retrospective at The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, among many others.

Slides
1: Chez Es Sadaa Restaurant
2-3: Private residential commission, 2023 📸
4-5: The Girl from Ipanema, 2010 for sketch and final work
6: Mural for The Center For The Arts, Escondido 2009
7: Reverse Commute, 2003 mural on the Essex Building, San Diego
8: Collaboration with for 1992, Table of The Bull

Winding down a fun summer 2024 with some outtakes of the QG crew, friends, our beloved sprinter van, and new addition to the family: Bean 🐾

Open now at .one with an opening reception this Saturday from 6-8pm alongside a new exhibition opening at

Kim MacConnel: Kudos

We’re excited to share this huge and exuberant 1981 bedsheet painting from the artist made during the height of the P&D movement.

Tonight〰️¢a$h&¢arry opens at 7️⃣7️⃣2️⃣2️⃣
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‘s traveling photo sale
includes 250 editioned c-print photographs at 4x6 or 5x5 in priced at $50 each.

Cash/Venmo accepted. DM for full list of images to reserve.

We’re busy getting ready for our double header in La Jolla opening tomorrow, hope to see you beginning 6pm tomorrow at 7722 Girard Ave!

In the meantime.. sneak peek from Kelsey Brookes: ‘Gradient Paintings’

Kelsey Brookes
Psilocin, 2024
Acrylic on Canvas
48 x 36 in

Next week! New suite of paintings by
opens in the back room of 7722 Girard Avenue

Kelsey Brookes “Gradient Paintings” comprises the artist’s latest series exploring new ways to reflect how the perception of art is underpinned by biological systems and chemical reactions occurring in nature and the human body. The content of these paintings stem from the scientist Heinrich Kluver’s discovery of form constants, which are a set of geometric patterns observed during altered states of consciousness or hallucination. There are four categories: lattices, cobwebs, spirals, and tunnels. His experiments analyzed subjects under the influence of psychoactive compounds like mescaline and their visual experiences – all followed one of those form constants. Using a new foreground painting technique, Brookes’ meticulous linework, which is known for its continuous motion and concentric wobbly edges, begins to unravel and break away from their structures in gradients of blues, oranges, yellows and pinks.

Studio Portrait :

Beyond the solitary nature of her drawing practice, Nancy Blum enjoys the often-collaborative process of developing large-scale public works using a variety of media. For New York City’s program she created ‘Roaming Underfoot’, a suite of large botanically themed mosaics at the historic 28th Street Station (2019) that celebrate the flowering plants that can be found in the nearby . The blooming plants represent plant species that can withstand changing climate conditions within NYC and include: Red Buds, Magnolias, Hellebores, Witch Hazel, Daffodils, Hydrangea, and Camelia. In the spring of 2024, this project was included in the book Contemporary Art Underground: MTA Arts & Design New York.

Photos: Cathy Carver
Fabricator: Miotto Mosaic Art Studios by

¢a$h&¢arry
Lee Materazzi’s traveling photo sale and exhibition arrives in San Diego next Friday 9/6 after stops in Portland and throughout SF at and

ca$h&¢arry includes 250 of Materazzi’s editioned c-print photographs at 4x6 or 5x5 in priced at $50 each.
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The 250 images comprising Lee Materazzi’s ¢a$h&¢arry serve as an incomplete archive, as all archives do, chronicling the last five years of the artist’s practice.

While varying greatly in scope, the overlapping bodies of work are all rooted in the space of the studio itself, which Materazzi shares with her children Mia and Brook, where it serves as both a constant and a site of flux; a witness to the palimpsest of a life in session.

Between the three of them, the works on view were completed between the ages of 37-41 and 3-11, respectively.

In her portraits, Materazzi objectifies not just her body, but the precarity of its nature. Ni***es, noses, knees, the small people she grew in her body and the messes they’ve made on the ground are neither daft nor holy but both, simultaneously, in equal measure.

Rather, there is something to be said about the reality of covering one’s body in green paint with the knowledge that you have to pick your kids up from school by 3pm.

Spanning the gamut from erotic to abject, the works in view overlap with experiences of parenthood, divorce, the pandemic, the cultural amnesia that followed, and a standard sense of dailiness. Shared among them is a sense of urgency, a sensation that feels big and small at the same time— the way a paper cut throbs.
Hovering between intention and accident, focus tests and iPhone pics, something that cannot be so contained lines the walls— a life’s work in progress, one that fits in the palm of your hand.
⁃ Rel Robinson

Some of most impactful drawings are the most subtle, using blacks and dark blues highlighted by the sheen of graphite pencil to build moody representations of the sea and otherworldly, transcendental forms.

GATHERED closes this Saturday. We mean it sincerely when we say these must be seen in person. Visit us 11-5.

Save The Date! We’re excited to announce two concurrent solo exhibitions at 7722 Girard opening this September:
Lee Materazzi’s traveling photo sale: ‘¢a$h&¢arry’ and Kelsey Brookes’ newest body of work: ‘Gradient Paintings’

Opening Reception: Friday, September 6, 6-8pm
More details soon to follow.

We’re headed to Lompoc! Monique van Genderen converted a warehouse on the Central coast into a studio and exhibition space, and it opens this Sunday with a show that traverses sculpture, benches, and the suggestion of benches.

Reception is Sunday from 3-7pm.
Let us know if you’ll be making the excursion?

Artists include Monique and , as well as
Cayetano Ferrer, Jamie Franks, Max Lofano, Elliott Hundley, Ceres Madoo, Luis Alonso Sánchez, JAX and Olivia Kayang, David Jurist, Christian Kastner, Phil Wagner, and Matthew Williams

We’re going to Lompoc! Monique van Genderen converted a warehouse on the Central coast into a studio and exhibition space, and it opens this Sunday with a show that traverses sculpture, benches, and the suggestion of benches.

Reception is Sunday from 3-7pm.
Let us know if you’ll be joining.

Artists include:
Cayetano Ferrer, Jamie Franks, Max Lofano, Jean Lowe, Elliott Hundley, Ceres Madoo, Luis Alonso Sánchez, JAX and Olivia Kayang, David Jurist, Christian Kastner, Monique van Genderen, Phil Wagner, and Matthew Williams

A closer look at some of the drawings included in ‘Cycloids/Drawings’. Made between 1980 and 1998, Kenneth Capps’ Equator Drawings reinforce his career-long preoccupation with the curvilinear form, underpinned discreetly by punctilious foundations.

In order:
Equator Drawing 1A, 1980
Equator Drawing G1-B, 1981
Equator Drawing #15, 1998

ink on paper
43 1/2 x 43 1/2 in each

Save The Date(s)!
On the occasion of Roman de Salvo’s upcoming solo exhibition at Two Rooms in Bird Rock, Murals of La Jolla will host an artist talk at the Athenaeum to discuss his work in the show and his 2019 public artwork, McCairn.

Dates to save:
September 15th, 5-7pm: Opening reception of ‘O Petravia’ at Two Rooms Gallery
September 18th, 6pm: Lecture at the Athenaeum Music Art & Arts Library

Reserve tickets through

Nancy Blum
Flame 3, 2024
colored pencil and graphite on black paper
28x38 in

Blum has made hundreds of her Black Drawings and each one is unique. If regarded as small parts of a larger whole, an interconnected ecosystem develops. Attuned to fire, earth, water, and air, drawing as a discipline gives form to Blum’s visioning of consciousness and what lies beyond those four elements, without which we couldn’t exist. Upon this foundation, her large ‘Flame’ drawings directly reference the element of fire and how it has been historically illustrated and mythologized in South and East Asian art.

photo: Malcolm Varon

OPENING TOMORROW AT ONE — On Kawara, One Million Years
Reception 6-8 PM

On Kawara (1932–2014) was a Japanese conceptual artist who was known for his singular focus on the passage of time with his text-based paintings on which he would paint the day’s date on monochromatic canvas—a practice which continued over the course of 48 years and resulted in several thousand paintings made around the world.

In 1969, he began the monumental project One Million Years, in which volumes of leatherbound books include 2,068 pages each simply listing years laid out in 10 columns, aligned and subdivided in 5 blocks of 100 years. Of the two volumes, Past was produced in 1969 and listed 998,031 B.C. through 1969 A.D. Future was created in 1981, starts in 1993 AD and ends one million years later, in 1,001,992. Together these volumes encompass over two million years.

Since 1993, institutions and galleries have produced recorded readings of the two volumes, beginning with Dia Center for the Arts in Chelsea. During the 11th edition of Documenta in Kassel, Germany, participants took turns reading the dates for the duration of the 100-day exhibition, and in 2004, a seven-day long continuous reading took place outside in Trafalgar Square, London. Each new session begins where the previous one ended until the contents of all ten volumes of both works have been read aloud. As of 2024, forty-five live readings and sound installations of One Million Years: Past and Future have been conducted and/or recorded in 31 cities around the world.

pictured are the two volumes which will be on view, and found images of various recorded readings, including Trafalgar Square and Documenta 11

These are the final couple of days to see Gary Simmons: I Wish at ONE!
Next up is On Kawara: One Million Years, opening this Saturday alongside new shows at and

Jean Lowe
Magazine Rack (Shape), 2005
enamel on papier-mâché
44.5 x 58.5 x 2.5 in

Light reading by currently on view at 7655 Girard

KENNETH CAPPS: CYCLOIDS/DRAWINGS

This presentation concentrates on Capps’ ongoing Cycloid series, wherein rectangular forms curve and continuously turn in on themselves, suggesting the endless ways a form can be analyzed or approached from.

Other new works involve the forms turning in – a feeling of collapse or enclosure. Nearly as if in the process of opening or closing, they suggest a delicate process which contradicts the weighty, immovable material that grounds the work. Capps characterizes this iteration of Cycloids by their capacity to wax and wane, resonating with their convex and concave surfaces.

Nancy Blum: Gathered installation views.

C/o for the flawless frames on these nuanced drawings, which really must be experienced in person.

OPENING SATURDAY!
Kenneth Capps: Cycloids/Drawings

Please join us Saturday the 27th for a reception from 11am-1pm to celebrate our suite of summer exhibitions in La Jolla.

Visit us at both 7722/7655 Girard spaces.

Exhibitions:
Kenneth Capps @ 7655 Girard
Nancy Blum @ 7722 Girard
Don Hughes

Doors open today at 11 for Nancy Blum’s new exhibition of Black Drawings at 7722 Girard!
**Please note there is no reception this evening but save the date for a reception next Saturday, July 27, 11am-1pm to celebrate our summer exhibitions across both La Jolla spaces**

These are the last few days to view Robert Irwin’s Kenny Price #2 at 7655 Girard Avenue.
For the last couple of months it has been the only work in the large main gallery space, drawing comparisons from many visitors as cathedral-like in its monumentality.
Final day is Saturday to experience.

Robert Irwin
Kenny Price #2, 2014-15
light+shadow+reflection+color
96 x 33.25 x 4.5 in
Photo Credit: Philipp Scholz Rittermann.
Courtesy of The Robert Irwin Estate.

Nancy Blum’s ongoing series of ‘Black Drawings’ radiate and transform within/beyond each 9x12 in sheet of paper, etched softly by colored pencil and graphite. She begins this daily practice with an image in mind and makes intuitive decisions underpinned by careful sensitivity to plant intelligence and movement, and the spatial geometry of nature. Taken as otherworldly species or mystic equations, these Untitled compositions evade definition. What results, however, is often a labyrinthine, curvilinear meditation on cycles of existence.

Nancy Blum: Gathered opens this Saturday at 7722 Girard Ave.

Opening this Saturday, July 13 .one

Gary Simmons
I Wish, 2003
oil and slate paint on canvas
85x85 in

Since the late 1980s, Gary Simmons has been creating an increasingly-nuanced body of work that considers race and class through chalkboard drawings and paintings; and multimedia installation and sculpture, regularly hovering between representation and abstraction.

He often mines imagery and words from pop culture, most notably from a vast array of stereotypical racist cartoons of the 20th century. In other works, he renders architecture that employs both systems of surveillance as well as sites of play and hope, like sports stadiums, boxing rings, and ballrooms. He is known for his practice of sketching and then physically erasing or smudging fragments of chalkboard or slate paint, leaving muted impressions which imbue a ghostly quality connected to both personal and collective memory. I Wish (2003) belongs to a continuing period of interest in the motif of smoke and stars which he associates with wishing, dreaming, and longing.

If you’re in NYC this summer, don’t miss a great pair of late 70s/early 80s Kim MacConnel bedsheet paintings in both locations in Chelsea and Tribeca. They are exhbited in great company as part of the group exhibition “Patterns” on view through August 2.

pictured, with details:
Kim MacConnel
Scientific, 1979
sewn acrylic painted cotton sheeting
98x100 in

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tomorrow? no, we’re closed for the holiday. back in the galleries friday!

photos:

We’re so pleased to announce the next exhibition at 7722 Girard Avenue will be a solo presentation of drawings by Nancy Blum.

Blum’s ongoing series of ‘Black Drawings’ radiate and transform within/beyond each 9x12 in sheet of paper, etched softly by colored pencil and graphite. She begins this daily practice with an image in mind and makes intuitive decisions underpinned by careful sensitivity to plant intelligence and movement, and the spatial geometry of nature. Taken as otherworldly species or mystic equations, these Untitled compositions evade definition. What results, however, is often a labyrinthine, curvilinear meditation on cycles of existence.

Exhibition opens to the public Saturday, July 13. More details to follow.

Photo:

This is the final week to pay a visit to and interact with the works in Glen Wilson: Constellation Dub! The exhibition closes its doors after 5 pm this Saturday, June 29.

Congrats guys on a very well deserved feature in this weekend’s NYT arts section! Nobody is doing it like these two.

All other photos taken by from last summer visiting at the Ensenada studio, then at .one and Jamex firing in Art Hell.