A leader in abstract painting of the twentieth century, Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872 – 1944), was best known for his Neo-Plasticism (a Dutch movement founded and name by Mondrian) abstractions of rigid forms consisting of rectangular shapes of red, yellow, blue, or black, separated by thick, black, rectilinear lines. Mondrian explained Neo-Plasticism as absolute harmony of straight lines and pure colors underlying the visible world. This exhibition of 24 paintings, many of which have never been on view in the US, includes a selection spanning 1907 through 1937. The pictures range from early abstract landscapes such as De Rode Wolk (The Red Cloud), painted in 1907 to Mondrian’s Composition with Blue, Red and Yellow completed in 1937.

This exhibition of Los Angeles born and based artist Glenn Kaino’s features seven of his large-scale installation pieces. The exhibition includes works created from 2000 to 2007 such as Blue, Desktop Operation: There’s No Place Like Home (10th Example of Rapid Dominance: Em City), Simple System For Dimensional Transformation, and A Plank for Every Pirate among others. These mixed-media, kinetic sculptures of familiar forms show reference to cultural history, mechanics, and physics. Kaino’s work has shown at the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, The Studio Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

German photographer Martin Klimas’ work features porcelain figures at the moment of impact with the ground. This photographic technique captures the figure as it transforms into a new object. Klimas utilizes no photographic manipulation to create these images of time. The artist drops a figurine from a predetermined height in complete darkness while the lens of the camera is open. This small exhibition is Klimas’ first museum exhibition.

These two exhibitions highlight the portrait work of American Dadaist Neke Carson. Over the years, while using a variety of techniques, Carson has created portraits of some of his favorite people such as Andy Warhol, Desi Arnaz, and Fred Flintstone. In 2007 he began a series of eyeball portraits with just the eyes as the focal point of the sitting. Color and other elements began to creep into the digital photographs and soon he moved well beyond his original premise. The twelve large-scale photographs in Eyeball Portraits and Beyond showcase the results.

In addition, the archival exhibition Neke Paints Andy ’72 gathers together for the first time material chronicling the creation of Carson’s 1972 painting, Portrait of Andy Warhol. Warhol’s Polaroids (which he later compiled into his Red Book no.129) and the video diary shot during the session at the Factory will complement Carson’s original painting. The painting was stolen in 1979 but eventually recovered and since then Carson has kept it under lock and key. This will be the first time in over 28 years that it has been shown publicly.

This exhibition of contemporary prints from the collection of The Bank of New York Mellon, features 83 pieces from renowned artists including Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Frank Stella, James Turrell, Jennifer Bartlett, Vija Celmins, Sol Lewitt and more.