“Sea Breeze” by Gary Paller, Monoprint, 1996

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An original 1996 monoprint on taupe paper by Los Angeles artist Gary Paller, titled “Sea Breeze.” This unique work combines … Read more An original 1996 monoprint on taupe paper by Los Angeles artist Gary Paller, titled “Sea Breeze.” This unique work combines sweeping blue gestures, vivid red organic forms, and passages of ochre, olive, and pale blue. Layered impressions and broken textures create a lively composition, with areas of open space suggesting movement and atmosphere. The print’s gestural handling offers a compelling example of Paller’s exploration of color, organic shape, and pictorial space. Its horizontal format and restrained blue frame complement the composition.

Pencil-inscribed “Monoprint” at lower left, titled “Sea Breeze” at lower center, and signed and dated “Gary Paller 1996” at lower right. A unique original print.

ARTWORK DETAILS

Artist: Gary Paller, American, born 1953
Title: Sea Breeze
Date: 1996
Medium: Monoprint on taupe paper
Signature: Pencil-signed, titled, dated, and identified as a monoprint along the lower margin
Paper dimensions: 19 inches high × 24.5 inches wide
Framed dimensions: Approximately 19.75 inches high × 25.5 inches wide
Presentation: Slim blue frame

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Gary Paller is a Los Angeles–born painter, printmaker, and muralist whose career spans more than four decades. He earned his BA in 1974 and MFA in 1977 from the University of California, Los Angeles, studying with William Brice, Lee Mullican, Ed Moses, and Charles Garabedian.

His work explores relationships between organic forms, geometric structures, and color. Working across painting, drawing, monotype, and relief printing, Paller creates compositions in which shapes overlap, fragment, and appear to float through space.

His international exhibition history includes presentations at Pimlico Gallery in London, Galerie Wolf in Düsseldorf, Galerija Equrna in Ljubljana, Moving Space Gallery in Belgium, and Gallery Indeco in Seoul. Institutional exhibition venues have included Museum van Bommel van Dam in the Netherlands, the Cleveland Center of Contemporary Art, and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery.

Paller has collaborated with Wildwood Press in St. Louis on large-scale unique collagraph and relief prints. His work is held in the permanent collection of Fondazione Vittorio Leonesio in Italy and the Telekom Slovenije Group Art Collection. Recent exhibitions include Abstraction Visited and Revisited at CMAY Gallery, Los Angeles, in 2025, and Zolla/Lieberman Gallery’s fiftieth-anniversary exhibition in Chicago in 2026.

CONDITION
The blue frame shows surface scratches, scuffs, and small finish losses. The printed image retains strong color and visible textural detail. Please review all images.
Some images are mockups illustrating how the work could appear with added matting. The artwork is offered in its existing blue frame, without the matting shown in those mockups. See less