Charles Arnoldi: Forms, A Fifty Year Survey

Charles Arnoldi is one of the most significant contemporary abstract painters, sculptors and printmakers of our generation. Emerging out of the booming 1970s Los Angeles art scene, Arnoldi’s paintings are experimentations in color, form and structure. Forms, A Fifty Year Survey highlights over 50 paintings, sculptures and works on paper beginning with the stick constructions and chainsaw wood relief paintings that brought him international acclaim early in his career through his most recent work which is inspired by a trip to Machu Picchu. Arnoldi’s work challenges, dissects and informs the traditional structure of form. Each piece is tirelessly configured and constructed, nuancing the relationship and subtleties of line and shape, color and material – the language of pure abstraction.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.