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Sensual Mechanical: The Art of Craig Kauffman
 
In this monograph, Hunter Drohojowska-Philp traces the development of Craig Kauffman's luminous paintings by juxtaposing the artist's architectural rigor with his unabashed sensuality. As one of the most significant figures to emerge from the lively art scene that arose in the 1960s in Los Angeles, Kauffman harnessed his disparate impulses to achieve an unparalleled body of work.

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Peter Voulkos:
Sculpture, Pottery, Prints
 

Often credited with contributing to the demolition of traditional hierarchies between fine arts and craft, Peter Voulkos inspired generations of ceramists to push boundaries in their medium. This 26 page online catalogue unites three aspects of Voulkos' oeuvre including sculpture, pottery, and prints. Spanning the period from 1954 to 2000, this exhibition includes early work, sculptural plate forms, and later works on paper.

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Craig Kauffman:
A Survey of Late Work
 
Produced between 2001 through 2009, these wall relief paintings represent the artist's lifelong investigation into translucent color and its perceptual effects. The works pulse with thinly applied layers of iridescent paint, achieving a glowing, atmospheric quality that illustrates Kauffman's enduring interest in light and perception. This online exhibition catalogue documents the 2014 exhibit of nine significant examples of Kauffman's late work.

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Los Gigantes
 

The group exhibition Los Gigantes, featuring works by Larry Bell, Craig Kauffman, John Mason, Ed Moses and Peter Voulkos, is presented in this twenty-four page online catalogue. These five artists are not only giants of the history of West Coast art – they are also major artists in the history of the Frank Lloyd Gallery. Throughout the gallery's eighteen year history, these artists have been featured in a combined total of twenty-nine solo shows and thirty-four group exhibitions.

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Small is Beautiful
 
This online catalogue documents the group exhibition Small is Beautiful, featuring works by Ralph Bacerra, Larry Bell, Roseline Delisle, Robert Graham, Robert Hudson, Jennifer Lee, Ron Nagle, Gustavo Pérez, Ken Price, Adrian Saxe and Richard Shaw. Presenting a selection of small-scale artworks in ceramics and other media, this exhibition privileges the intimacy of objects that can be held in one's hands, or that bear evidence of their own production.

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Scot Heywood:
A Survey of Small Paintings
 
The Frank Lloyd Gallery published this forty page catalogue to accompany Scot Heywood's concurrent solo exhibitions at the Pete and Susan Barrett Gallery and the Frank Lloyd Gallery in the fall of 2013. With a scholarly essay by Frances Colpitt and thirty beautiful color reproductions, it traces the development of Heywood's work and career as a geometric abstract painter in Southern California.

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Translucence
 
This group show featuring the artists Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman, Helen Pashgian, and DeWain Valentine, included a selection of historical pieces and recent works that focused on the properties of transparency and translucence. The exhibition explored their subtly atmospheric qualities, nonphysicality, and emphasis on perceptual phenomena. This online catalogue includes eleven color reproductions of major works by these artists.

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Polyform
 

The group exhibition Polyform, featuring works by Larry Bell, Scot Heywood, Gustavo Pérez and Mark Pharis, is documented in this twenty-eight page online catalogue. By presenting contemporary ceramics alongside painting, this show sought to explore how disparate mediums can share common formal and theoretical concerns. The works included in Polyform illustrate the principles of sequencing, repetition, and spatial and geometric relationships.

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Cheryl Ann Thomas:
Soft
 

The Frank Lloyd Gallery published this online catalogue in honor of Cheryl Ann Thomas's fourth solo exhibition with us. Thirteen color images illustrate the artist's new and subtle palette, and a short essay traces her stylistic development. On the subject of her new work, Thomas commented that "the art and my nature are slowly coming into an even closer alignment. It is going soft."

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Larry Bell:
Recent Work
 
This thirty page online catalogue presents Larry Bell's 2013 show at the Frank Lloyd Gallery. Twenty-three color images and a short essay document his most recent collage works on paper. From the artist's ongoing "Small Figures" series, these works fuse together diverse materials with luminously beautiful results. The collages simultaneously evoke cubism, surrealism, and futurism, while retaining their own contemporary identity.

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Craig Kauffman:
Constructed Paintings 1973 - 1976
 
Presenting a series of works created in studios in New York, Paris, and California, this online catalog documents the Frank Lloyd Gallery exhibition "Craig Kauffman: Constructed Paintings 1973 – 1976." Full color images and a short essay by Frank Lloyd contextualize these works in Kauffman's career, reflecting his life-long interest in unorthodox supports for painting, as well as a sensuous and luminous color sensibility.

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Frank's International House of Ceramics,
Part Three
 
The latest in a series of exhibitions that highlighted Frank Lloyd Gallery's international roster of artists, Frank's International House of Ceramics, Part Three represents a survey of the diversity of ceramic practices throughout the world. This online catalogue includes twenty-one color images of works by Svend Bayer, Richard DeVore, Satoru Hoshino, Richard Shaw, Goro Suzuki, and Peter Voulkos.

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Frank's International House of Ceramics, Part Two
 

Uniting a diverse group of ceramists, this catalogue reflects the international scope of the gallery. England, Mexico, and Japan are represented in addition to the United States, creating a new mix of ceramic styles. It presents twenty-five works by Ralph Bacerra, Elizabeth Fritsch, Jennifer Lee, Gustavo Pérez, Adrian Saxe, Sugimoto Sadamitsu, and Akio Takamori.

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Frank's International House of Ceramics
 

Frank's International House of Ceramics brought together seven ceramists from all over the world, with an online catalogue documenting the show in thirty color illustrations. Showing the work of major talents from outside the U.S. provided us with an opportunity to see how artists from different cultures draw on and interpret the world's rich ceramic traditions. The show included works by Wouter Dam, Georges Jeanclos, Gustavo Pérez, Adrian Saxe, Goro Suzuki, Akio Takamori, and Cheryl Ann Thomas.

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Ken Price
 
With over twenty selected examples of Price's intimate ceramics as well as a handful of prints, this publication demonstrates his exquisite attention to scale, color, and sensuality. Since his earliest work in clay, Price pushed the boundaries of the medium with his refined finishes and rich associations, from the primordial and organic to Mexican folk pottery. Price addressed many issues in work that ranged from abstract sculpture to intimate, hand-held cups.

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Jennifer Lee:
New Work
 
Scottish ceramist Jennifer Lee’s exhibition of new work is documented in this online catalogue. Composed of ten elegant and intimate vessels, illustrated here, the show is marked by a feeling of graceful suspension. Lee hand-builds her pots, using an arduous method of ceramic construction. This long process heightens her profound sensitivity to her material, and the finished works illustrate her instinctive understanding of form and volume.

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Scot Heywood:
Polarities
 

This nineteen page online catalogue was published to accompany Scot Heywood's exhibition of new work titled Polarities. Composed of multiple monochrome panels, the new paintings employ two vertical bars which seem to move in specific directions. These geometric planes of color interact with the refined surface technique that characterizes the artist's work.


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Craig Kauffman:
The Numbers Paintings
 
With eighteen color reproductions and a short essay by Frank Lloyd, this catalogue documents the third exhibition to be drawn from the Estate of Craig Kauffman (19322010). Presenting a series of paintings made by Kauffman in 1989, the exhibition highlighted Kauffman's interest in the unorthodox application of paint, and his integration of sensuous color with architectural form.

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The Ambit of Embraces
 
The Ambit of Embraces demonstrated the tactility and intimacy of the ceramic vessel. All seventeen of the works in the show are intimate aesthetic objects, made by hand. They are reproduced in this full-color online catalogue. The show was inspired by a quote from New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl:

"Ceramics express and are addressed to the hand. They acquire their full meaning within arm's reach—the ambit of embraces—where the sovereignty of sight blurs into that of touch."

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Sugimoto Sadamitsu:
Shigaraki and Iga
 
This nineteen page catalogue documents the first comprehensive exhibition in the United States of the ceramic artwork of Sugimoto Sadamitsu (b. 1934). This Japanese artist is renowned for his work with the Shigaraki and Iga traditions of high-fired stoneware made for the Tea Ceremony. The sixteen masterworks exhibited in the 2012 show are reproduced here in beautiful full-color images.

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Peter Voulkos in L.A.:
Time Capsule
 
With twenty-four color plates, and an essay by Frank Lloyd, this catalogue documents the exhibition Peter Voulkos in L.A.: Time Capsule at the Frank Lloyd Gallery from January 14 through February 11, 2012. Complementing the Pacific Standard Time project, the Frank Lloyd Gallery presented selected works from the collection of Peter Voulkos' daughter, Pier, in a show that encapsulated the period of 19541959.

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Craig Kauffman
 

This thirty-two page catalogue documents Craig Kauffman's solo exhibition at the Frank Lloyd Gallery from September 13 through October 18, 2008. The catalogue includes eighteen color plates of Kauffman's recent wall relief sculpture: Bubbles, Donuts, and Dishes. It also includes images documenting Kauffman's early plastic work, as well as an essay by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp.


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John Mason
 

This thirty page catalogue documents John Mason's solo exhibition at the Frank Lloyd Gallery from November 18 through December 30, 2000. The catalogue includes nineteen color plates of Mason's large-scale sculpture, including the Vertical Torques, Spear Forms, and Figures. It also includes images documenting Mason's past work and working process, and an interview with Mason conducted by Ben Marks.


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Cindy Kolodziejski
 

This catalogue was published for a solo exhibition of work by Cindy Kolodziejski at the Frank Lloyd Gallery, May 1 June 1, 1999. Twenty-four pages in length, it includes ten color plates of works included in the exhibition as well as an essay by Stephen Luecking.


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The Art of Peter Voulkos
 

An extensive survey of the work of Peter Voulkos, this one hundred and nintey-two page catalogue includes forty-five color plates, a checklist of the exhibition, an extensive chronology, and essays by Karen Tsujimoto and Rose Slivka. It was published concurrently with the 1995 exhibition of the same name at the Oakland Museum of Art.


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