Past
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Richard MacDonald: Timeless Visions
Opening Reception: November 16, 7-9pm 15 Oct - 24 Nov 2024 Laguna Beach ' Timeless Visions ' showcases the evocative sculptures of Richard MacDonald, focusing on the enduring beauty of the human spirit, the grace of movement, and the power of artistic vision . At the heart of the exhibition lies the theme of Eternal Human Expression . MacDonald’s works capture the raw... Read more -
Blooms and Brushstrokes
A Group Exhibition 11 Jul - 22 Sep 2024 Laguna Beach 'Blooms and Brushstrokes' on view from July 11, 2024 through September 22, 2024. 326 Glenneyre Street Laguna Beach, CA (949) 497-4988 RSVP: info@dawsoncolefineart.com Read more -
Splash of Summer
A Group Exhibition 31 Jul - 8 Sep 2023 Laguna Beach, Palm Desert Step into a vibrant world of art that captures the essence of the season at the mesmerizing exhibition, 'Splash of Summer.' This exhilarating showcase is a celebration of all things summer, where artists explore the warmth, beauty, and vitality of this beloved season through a diverse array of creative expressions.... Read more -
Hannah Tjia: Figures and Florals
28 Mar - 11 Apr 2022 Laguna Beach Dawson Cole Fine Art is pleased to present an exhibition of works by Hannah Tjia, in partnership with the Laguna College of Art and Design (LCAD) Mentorship Program. Read more -
Red Redefined
The Evocative Power of the Color Red 1 - 28 Feb 2022 Laguna Beach, Palm Desert Dawson Cole Fine Art presents an exhibition of works by gallery artists – “Red Redefined.” The group show consists of fourteen works and includes paintings, bronze sculpture, prints, and hand-blown glass by gallery artists. Read more -
Salvador Dalí: The Twelve Tribes of Israel
22 Nov - 31 Dec 2021 Laguna Beach, Palm Desert Dawson Cole Fine Art is pleased to present an online exhibition of rare etchings by distinguished Spanish artist Salvador Dali (1904-89). Salvador Dalí was an icon of Surrealism, the 20th-century avant-garde movement that sought to release unconscious creative potential through art that featured dreamlike imagery. Dalí’s fantastical prints, paintings, sculptures,... Read more -
LOVE + MODERN BEAUTY
30 Jan - 15 Feb 2021 Laguna Beach Dawson Cole Fine Art is pleased to present 'LOVE + MODERN BEAUTY' from January 30- February 15, 2021. There’s something to be said about the holiday’s celebration of love, and among its infinite subjects, art has never had a better muse. Artists live, as we all do, through the varied... Read more -
Carolyn Reynolds - Painting Into Light
14 Oct - 11 Nov 2020 Laguna Beach, Palm Desert "Carolyn Reynolds: Painting into Light" highlights the rare, chance occurrences that abound in nature. By contrasting simplicity with complexity, vastness with the infinitesimally small, motion with stillness, Carolyn Reynolds reveals another aspect of the world we live in—a fleeting paradox of a life so small, and yet so perfectly in harmony with the boundless forces of the universe. Enter into the quiet moments, and reflect. Read more -
A Quest for Identity
1 - 31 Jan 2020 Laguna Beach, Palm Desert If portraits served the purpose of simply recording physical appearance, then painting would have been made redundant with the earliest developments of photography. Instead, the opposite is true: in the age of accurate representation through photography the subtlety and importance of the portrait has become more apparent. We all know... Read more -
Richard MacDonald - A Convergence of Spires
Laguna Beach Gallery Artist Reception Nov 9 & 10 9 - 29 Nov 2019 Laguna Beach Richard MacDonald’s upcoming fall show for 2019 is titled “A Convergence of Spires, Beauty and Passion”, and features his unique body of work incorporating his original concept of a column or “spire”. Striking visually, and intriguing thematically, the works elevated by columns speak to Richard MacDonald’s boldness of vision, and express more fully the beauty and passion he brings to all that he creates. Read more -
Chuck Close
Face to Face 1 - 31 Aug 2019 Laguna Beach, Palm Desert For more than five decades, Close has captured his friends and family in portraits that are as abstract as they are realistic, executed in a diverse range of media and techniques. The vehicles for Close’s mark-making range from oil paint, airbrush, and finger printing, to paper pulp, colored pencil, and... Read more -
Luminous Reverie
17 - 31 May 2019 Laguna Beach, Palm Desert If you cast your mind’s eye to make a quick review of some of the great paintings of the Western tradition you might find that you are thinking—without realizing it—about paintings that feature light as a subject. Monet’s shimmering water-lilies floating in dappled sunshine, or the gleam of the pearl... Read more -
Jim Dine: Printmaker
7 - 31 Mar 2019 Laguna Beach, Palm Desert Unlike many artists who produce editions, printmaking is a deliberate media choice for Jim Dine, enabling him tremendous freedom to explore, experiment and push the limits of the conventional wisdom of the process. Dine’s earliest recorded prints were the product of a ‘happening’, which he staged at Reuben Gallery in... Read more -
Richard MacDonald: 30 Years of Creative Passion
10 Nov - 31 Dec 2018 Laguna Beach, Palm Desert Richard MacDonald has a lifetime of inspiration, creativity, and passion to draw from, and he has brought art to life through his imagination and dedication. Once realized in bronze, his moments of inspiration become ours too. It takes courage to make a mark on the future. It takes creativity to distill the experiences of a lifetime into art that has meaning and beauty. It takes passion beyond words to stay the course on the uncharted path of an artist. Thirty years becomes visible—tangible—and these moments will speak beyond our time. The 30th Anniversary celebration will highlight 30 of Richard's most revered and iconic works, together with some of his most recent creations including a heroic size sculpture that will be unveiled for the first time during the event. Read more -
Pablo Picasso: Themes & Variations
6 - 27 Oct 2017 Laguna Beach Picasso devoted an extraordinary amount of time and energy to his pursuit of printmaking, from his earliest etchings created in 1904 at the age of 23, to his final suite of prints created within a year of his death in 1973. It is important to understand how central the creative... Read more -
Duality
Explorations in Contrast and Harmony 1 - 30 Nov 2016 Laguna Beach, Palm Desert Masterful sculptors of every era and culture move into the complex field of multiple figure compositions to explore the full emotional range possible when figures interact. Multiple figure compositions create an implied narrative, a suggested relationship, and an expanded range of possibilities for the imagination of the artist, and ultimately, for the viewer. Richard MacDonald has been exploring the complex visual, aesthetic, and conceptual relationships of multiple figures throughout his career, and the newest work “Duality” highlights a theme that runs through the diverse collection.
“Duality” brings into focus the idea that darkness is defined by light, strength is balanced by tenderness, and that in the balance of opposing forces there is a center of tranquility and peace. It is the age-old concept of Yin and Yang echoed in a new form, and through this lens earlier works can be seen to exhibit the same dynamic balance.
Richard MacDonald will be present to unveil the new “Duality” in bronze, and several new heroic works (larger-than-life-sized) - Butterfly”, and “Allonge, Male” and “Allonge, Female”. Read more -
Richard MacDonald: Red
9 - 30 Nov 2015 Laguna Beach, Palm Desert Richard MacDonald: red follows the artist’s use of this common structure throughout his career from the appearance of red in early original drawings including Study of a Young Dancer1998 (Richard MacDonald Studios) to the 2015 red veiling of the iconic work Blind Faith Heroic(Dawson Cole Fine Art). Yin & Yang(Dawson Cole Fine Art) and Aurora(Dawson Cole Fine Art), both created in 2014, initiated the technique that was later to evolve into a deep exploration of the role that color plays in figurative sculpture. Beyond the spectral survey that is apparent, the governing theme that traces its message throughout the exhibition is the evocative power of the color red. Read more -
Dinner with Dali
20 Oct 2015 Laguna Beach Salvador Dalí and the St. Regis Hotel have had a long history together. Throughout the 1960s and ’70s, the famed surrealist painter, his wife, and their pet ocelot (of course) would decamp to the hotel’s New York outpost for fall and winter. There they would wile away the winter, throwing... Read more -
Jian Wang: The Pacific Series
1 - 31 Aug 2015 Laguna Beach, Palm Desert Read more -
Objects of Beauty
Contemporary Still Life Painting 6 Mar - 20 Apr 2015 Laguna Beach, Palm Desert Still Life painting, or paintings composed of inanimate objects usually seen in an interior space (but not always), represents a rich tradition throughout art history. It would be hard to find a single noteworthy artist from any period who has not left some thoughtful Still Life paintings for us to... Read more -
Donald Sultan: Still Lifes
12 May - 1 Jun 2014 Laguna Beach, Palm Desert The exhibition is the first gallery presentation to survey the artist’s innovative use of industrial materials and techniques in works completed primarily since 1980. Donald Sultan was born in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1957 and received his B.F.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In 1975 he received his M.F.A. from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Sultan began experimenting in technique, surface, and media as a student dissatisfied with traditional methods of painting, which eventually led him to use industrial tools and materials. Sultan begins his paintings by constructing a support of plywood, masonite, linoleum tiles, and roofing tar. The artist then sketches a composition onto this black matte surface and cuts away the tar with a knife, or melts it with a blowtorch. The resulting exposed area is painted, plastered, or left untouched, the melted tar becoming a compositional element in the final painting. Though representational, Sultan’s still lifes, cityscapes, and landscapes of industrial scenes are rendered in a bold semi-abstract style. However, his small, intimate still lifes recall Dutch 17th- and 18th-century painting, and his industrial landscapes, based on contemporary disasters such as warehouse fires and explosions, suggest contemporary versions of history painting. Some of Sultan’s paintings contain barely disguised erotic images, which can be seen more readily in some of his silhouetted charcoal drawings on paper. Richard MacDonald Jr., chief curator at the gallery, coordinated the installation at Dawson Cole Fine Art, Laguna Beach. Read more
