Brian Gross Fine Art: Artists: Karl Benjamin


		b. 1925 Chicago, IL d. 2012 Los Angeles, CA Education 1943 Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 1949 BA, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA 1960 MA, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA Awards 1983 Grant for Visual Arts, National Endowment for the Arts 1989 Grant for Visual Arts, National Endowment for the Arts Solo Exhibitions 2008 Karl Benjamin, Brian Gross Fine Art at One Post Street, San Francisco, CA 2007 Dance The Line—Paintings by Karl Benjamin, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA 2007 Karl Benjamin: A Conversation with Color: Karl Benjamin, Paintings 1953-1995, Claremont Museum of Art, Claremont, CA 2006 Karl Benjamin: India Ink Drawings from the 1950's, Lawrence Markey Gallery, San Antonio, TX 2005 Selected Paintings: 1953-1994, The Claremont Community Foundation, CA 2005 Drawings 1950-1965, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA 2004 Paintings from 1950-1965, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA 2004 Alphabet Series: 1964-1965, Brian Goss Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2003 Stripe Paintings: 1979-1981, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2001 (Mostly) Random Rectangles, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 1995 LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA 1994 The Pomona Years, 1979-1994, A Retrospective, Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Pomona, CA 1992 Paintings 1955-1990, Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY 1991 Recent Paintings, Fong-Spratt Galleries, San Jose, CA 1990-8 Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1990 A Ten Year Survey, The Art Galleries of Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA 1989 A Retrospective, 1955-1987, Shasta College, University of the Pacific and California State College, Fullerton, CA 1986 Recent Paintings, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1986 Eight Year Survey, Los Angeles Municipal Art Galleries, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA 1986 Hemmerdinger Gallery, Palm Springs, CA 1983 Chrysalis Gallery, Claremont, CA 1982 Stella Polaris Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1981 Abraxas Gallery, Newport Beach, CA 1981 Paintings of the 50s, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA 1981 Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA 1980 Survey 1970-1980, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA 1980 Cheney-Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA 1980 Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, WA 1980 Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1978-9 Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA 1975-9 Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1972 University of Redlands, Redlands, CA 1971 William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1968 Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1968 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA 1964-6 Hollis Galleries, San Francisco, CA 1960-4 Esther-Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1962 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA 1961 Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1961 La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA 1959 Esther-Roble Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1958 Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA 1958 Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 1955 Jack Carr Gallery, Pasadena, CA 1954 Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA 1953 University of Redlands, Redlands, CA Group Exhibitions 2007 After Image: Op Art of the 1960's, Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, New York. 2007 Birth of Cool: California Art, Design and Culture at Midcentury, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA. Traveled to:Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA, 2008. 2007 Optic Nerve—Perceptual Art of the 1960's, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio 2007 Painting <=> Design, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA 2006 A Little SoCal Abstraction, Mandarin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2006 Driven to Abstraction: Southern California and the Non-Objective World, 1950-1980, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA 2006 Peace Tower (recreation of 1966 original) in conjunction with the Whitney Biennial: Day for Night, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 2005 Human Presence: Works from the Museum's Collection (The Geometry of Color/The Singular Body), San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA 2005 The First 80 Years, Los Angeles Art Association, West Hollywood, CA 2005 Daimler Chrysler Collection: Minimalism and After III, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany 2005 Conversations with the Collection: A Selection from the Permanent Collection, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA 2005 The LA that Influenced My Eye, Sullivan Goss: An American Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA 2005 Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form 1940's-1970's, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 2005 Twenty Years and Counting: An Exhibition Celebrating the dA Center for the Arts, dA Center for the Arts, Pomona, CA 2005 Collection Histories/ Collective Memories: California Modern, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA 2004 The Los Angeles School: Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Frederick Hammersley, June Harwood, Helen Lundeberg and John McLaughlin, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA 2004 American Art: Selections from the Collection, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA 2004 Selections from the Permanent Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA 2004 Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form 1940s-70s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 2001 Four Abstract Classicists: Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Frederick Hammersley, and John McLaughlin, Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY 2000 Vertical Chords, Harris Gallery, University of La Verne, La Verne, CA 1998 Elusive Paradise: Los Angeles Art from the Permanent Collection, Geffen Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA 1998 Convergence, The Art Galleries at Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA 1997 Geometric Abstraction 1937-1997, Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY 1997 Eyedazzlers, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 1996 California Artists: Genres of the 20th Century, Henley Gallery, Chapman University 1996 Some Grids: The Theme of the Grid in 20th Century Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 1996 On the Edge of America: California Modernist Art, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angles, CA 1996 California Focus, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA 1993 Four Abstract Classicists, West Coat Hard Edge, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1993 Choice Encounters, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA 1993 California: Art from the 1930s to the Present, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 1992 Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA 1992 Phinney Gallery, Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs, CA 1991 Post War Geometric Concepts, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, NY 1990 Survey of Geometric Abstraction, Marc Richards Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1990 Turning the Tide: Early Los Angeles Modernists, 1920-1956, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA; Laguna, CA; San Antonio, TX; Santa Barbara, CA; Palm Springs, CA 1989 Blueprints for Modern Living, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA 1989 A Decade of Abstraction, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA 1988 The Linear Thread, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA 1987 California's Painting from the 60s, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 1987 Contemporary Prints by West Coast Artists, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA 1987 Pomona College Centennial Faculty Exhibition, Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Pomona, CA 1987 Insights, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA 1986 R.C. Erpf Gallery, New York, NY 1985 Ten California Colorists, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA; Palm Springs, CA; Pomona, CA; Redding, CA 1985 Color Forms, Gallery at the Plaza, Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, CA 1984 Color, Color, Color, Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1984 A Focus on California, Selections from the Permanent Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 1984 The Twentieth Century: The SFMA, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA 1982 Color in Contemporary Painting, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1981 Pacific Coast Museum Selection, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. 1980 West Coast: Art for the Vice-President's House, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA; Washington, D.C. 1979 Art, Inc.: American Paintings from Corporate Collections, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Montgomery, AL; Indianapolis, IN; San Diego, CA 1979 Los Angeles Abstract Painting, University of California, Riverside, CA; Albuquerque, NM 1977 35th Biennial Exhibition of American Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1977 Los Angeles Hard Edge: The Fifties and Seventies, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 1977 4 From California, Dorothy Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, IL 1976 Painting and Sculpture in California: the Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA; Washington, D.C. 1971 Pacific Cities Loan Exhibition, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand 1969 Los Angeles Annual Art Exhibition, Municipal Art Galleries, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA 1967 30th Biennial Exhibition of American Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1967 The White House, Washington, D.C. 1966 85th Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA 1966 American Painting, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 1965 The Responsive Eye, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; St. Louis, MO; Seattle, WA; Pasadena, CA; Baltimore, MD 1966 Art Across America, Mead Corporation, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY; Toledo, OH; Cleveland, OH; Hartford, CT; Cincinnati, OH; New Orleans, LA; Philadelphia, PA 1966 The Colorists, 1950-1965, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA 1966 California Artists, Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX 1966 Survey of Contemporary Art, Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, KY 1966 Denver Museum Annual, Denver Museum of Art 1964 New Accessions, USA, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO 1962 50 California Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Minneapolis, MN; Buffalo, NY; Des Moines, IA 1962 Geometric Abstraction in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Boston, MA 1962 The Artist's Environment West Coast, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, TX; Los Angeles, CA; Oakland, CA 1961 Painting from the Pacific United States, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand 1960 West Coast Hard Edge, Institute of Contemporary Art, London and Queen College, Belfast, Ireland 1960 Purist Painting, American Federation of Arts, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Ithaca, NY; Louisville, KY; Syracuse, NY; Raleigh, NC; Columbus, OH 1959 4 Abstract Classicists, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco, CA 1959 New Talent, American Federation of Arts, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS; New York, NY; Washington, D.C. 1957 California Drawings, Pomona College, Pomona, CA; Riverside, CA; Long Beach, CA 1956 Art in Architecture, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1955 10th Annual Newport Harbor Exhibit, Newport Beach, CA 1954 Artists Should Know, Los Angeles Art Association, Los Angeles, CA 1953 Falk-Raboff Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Selected Collections Whitney Museum of American Art Los Angeles County Museum San Francisco Museum of Art Wadsworth Athenaeum Santa Barbara Museum of Art Pasadena Art Museum Utah Museum of Fine Arts Long Beach Museum of Art Fine Art Gallery of San Diego Berkeley Art Museum Seattle Museum of Modern Art Newport Harbor Art Museum Israel Museum of Modern Art University of Nebraska, Sheldon Memorial Gallery Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art Cheney Cowles State Museum University of Utah University of New Mexico University of Washington, Henry Gallery University of Redlands Pomona College Scripps College Pitzer College Claremont Graduate University Harvey Mudd College Mt. San Antonio College Oakland Art Museum Palm Springs Art Museum Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art Tacoma Art Museum Nevada Museum of Art Washington State University North Carolina Museum of Art Houston Museum of Fine Art Nora Eccles Harrison Museum Bibliography Humblet, Claudine, La Nouvelle Abstraction Americaine 1950-1970, Volume I, Milan: Skira Editore, 2003. Schipper, Merle, "Karl Benjamin," California 5 Footnotes to Modern Art History, 1977.