Works of Art: Ger Lataster

Ger Lataster, Cherry Triangle, 1971, lithograph, ed. 190,
22 x 30 in., $300

Ger Lataster, Untitled, 1970, lithograph, edition 190,
22 x 30 in., $300

Works of art by Ger Lataster are available at if ART Gallery, 1223 Lincoln Street, Columbia, SC.

Contact Wim Roefs at if-art-gallery@sc.twcbc.com or (803) 255-0068/(803) 238-2351.

Biography: Ger Lataster

(Dutch, b. 1920)

In the wake of the CoBrA revolution of the late 1940s-early 1950s, Ger Lataster received extensive international attention, though he did not belong to CoBrA. From early figurative paintings inspired by the Fauves and Matisse, Lataster in the 1950s developed an Abstract-Expressionist style that largely bypassed CoBrA’s incorporation of figurative elements, aligning itself more with American Abstract Expressionism. Lataster spent 1965-1966 in the United States and had solo gallery shows in New York and Minneapolis, where he taught. Around this time, representative elements crept back into his work’s always abstract and fiercely expressionist context. That interaction between representation and the language of Abstract Expressionism characterizes his work to the present day.

Lataster has had museum and gallery shows throughout Europe, including at the 1959 Kassel Dokumenta II in Germany, and a 1960 solo exhibition at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum. In the United States, he showed at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, which acquired his work, as did New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Institute, the Knox-Albright Museum in Buffalo, N.Y., and Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum. 

Salon III: January 15- February 4, 2009

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Untitled, 1995

Lithograph, 29/30

20 x 26 inches

$ 425

if ART Gallery

presents

SALON III: The Print Exhibition

January 15 – February 4, 2009

if ART Gallery

1223 Lincoln St., Columbia, S.C. 29205

Reception: Thursday, Jan. 15, 5 – 10 p.m.

Opening Hours:

Weekdays, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Saturday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

& by appointment

Printmaking Demonstrations:

Sunday, Jan. 18, 3 – 5 p.m., Marcelo Novo, Print Gocco

Sunday, Jan. 25, 3 – 5 p.m., Phil Garrett, Monotype

Saturday, Jan. 31, 3 – 5 p.m., H. Brown Thornton, Photo Transfer

Sunday, Feb. 1, 3 – 5 p.m., Steven Chapp, Linocut & Photopolymer Prints

For more information, contact Wim Roefs at if ART:

(803) 255-0068/ (803) 238-2351 – if-art-gallery@sc.twcbc.com

For its January 2009 exhibition, if ART Gallery presents Salon III, an exhibition of prints by gallery artists at if ART Gallery, 1223 Lincoln St., Columbia, S.C. The opening reception will be Thursday, January 15, 2009, 5 – 10 p.m. The exhibition will be installed salon-style at the gallery’s first floor and continues if ART’s salon-style exhibitions; in December 2008, Salon I & II took place simultaneously at the gallery and Gallery 80808/Vista Studios in Columbia.

Among the printmaking techniques represented in the exhibition are etchings, dry points, lithographs, woodcuts, linocuts, photopolymer prints, embossings, monotypes, silkscreens and photo transfers.

During the exhibition, gallery artists Steven Chapp of Easley, S.C., Phil Garrett of Greenville, S.C., Brown Thornton of Aiken, S.C., and Marcelo Novo of Columbia will give demonstrations of various printmaking techniques. For times and demonstrated techniques, see above.

Artists in the exhibition include Karel Appel, Jeri Burdick, Carl Blair, Lynn Chadwick, Steven Chapp, Corneille, Jeff Donovan, Jacques Doucet, Phil Garrett, Herbert Gentry, Tonya Gregg, John Hultberg, Richard Hunt, Sjaak Korsten, Lucebert, Reiner Mährlein, Sam Middleton, Eric Miller, Joan Mitchell, Dorothy Netherland, Marcelo Novo, Hannes Postma, Edward Rice, Anton Rooskens, Kees Salentijn, Laura Spong, Brown Thornton, Bram van Velde, Katie Walker, David Yaghjian and Paul Yanko.