Abstract "Painting+" Original Artwork by Len Klikunas

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Len Klikunas paints minimalist artworks to modify experienced reality through visual perception. The Blocks series is a mix of art … Read more Len Klikunas paints minimalist artworks to modify experienced reality through visual perception. The Blocks series is a mix of art and architecture, hovering between painting and sculpture. It employs shizen (自然): the Japanese concept of naturalness; absence of pretense or artificiality. Material is stretched over a supporting three-dimensional framework, like a tent, and coated with paint.

The work is characterized by “mindful artlessness” and simplicity. Understated and subtle, the work doesn’t only refer to itself, and it doesn’t explain everything.

This 36 inch square post-minimalist artwork is wired and ready to hang. The sides of this artwork are finished as a continuation of the front, and it does not require framing. The artist signs and titles the artwork on the back. Free local Los Angeles delivery. Affordable U.S. and worldwide shipping options are available. A certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery is included.

Len Klikunas' sculptural works are represented by Artspace Warehouse Los Angeles as well as Kelly Wearstler Interior Design. They have been exhibited and collected throughout the USA.

REPRESENTATION
Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, California

EDUCATION
1966 BA Stanford University
1970 MA California State University Fullerton
1973 Photography Mt. Hood Community College

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Block in the Void, The District, Boise, Idaho
2012 Back of the Light, The District, Boise, Idaho
1979 Nudes by Klikunas, Courtyard Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1976 Solar Votives, Clackamas College Gallery, Oregon City, Oregon

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2016 6 by Six, Art Source Gallery, Boise, Idaho (juried)
This American Life, Treasure Valley Artists Alliance, Boise, Idaho (juried)
Celebrating Private Idaho, Treasure Valley Artists Alliance, Boise, Idaho (juried)
Inner Workings, Surel's Place, Winston C. Mitchell and Surel L. Mitchell Family Foundation honorarium, Garden City, Idaho (juried)
2015 Hunting and Gathering Exhibition, Treasure Valley
Artists Alliance, Boise, Idaho (juried)
Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, California
2nd 2015 Showcase Competition, winner, Artslant
Bellingham National Salon des Refusés, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, Washington
2011 Elon University Gallery, Elon, North Carolina
2010 Idaho Triennial, Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
1987 La Quinta Juried Art Festival, La Quinta, California
1984 Courtyard Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1983 Courtyard Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1982 Courtyard Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1981 Courtyard Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1980 Salon de Refuses, Portland Center for the Visual Arts (PCVA), Portland, Oregon
Courtyard Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1979 Courtyard Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1978 Artists of Oregon, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon (juror: Wayne Thiebaud)
Courtyard Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Gazebo Gallery, Lake Oswego, Oregon
1977-1974
Courtyard Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Gazebo Gallery, Lake Oswego, Oregon

PUBLICATIONS
2010 ArtDaily, Feb 5–May 25, 2010
2010 Boise Weekly Vol. 19 Issue 15, Oct 6–12, 2010
2010 Sustain + Expand, Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
2010 Idaho Statesman, Boise, Idaho, Taking the Pulse of Idaho’s Art World, Christopher Schnoor, Oct 6, 2010
2010 Rimas K. Simaitis, Sep18, 2010

AWARDS AND GRANTS
2016 Winston C. Mitchell and Surel L. Mitchell Family Foundation, honorarium award, Boise, ID
2017 Peter S. Reed Foundation, NY See less