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The Hannah Hoffman Gallery will present an exhibition of works by American artist Paul Thek from November 12, 2016 to January 7, 2017. This will be the first solo gallery exhibition of Thek's work in Los Angeles and the most significant presentation of his work there since a 2011 retrospective at the Hammer Museum. Thek pioneered room-size immersive installations beginning in the 1960s and his works have influenced many other artists through his use of fragile and ephemeral materials to explore personal, spiritual and mystical themes.

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The Hannah Hoffman Gallery will present an exhibition of works by American artist Paul Thek from November 12, 2016 to January 7, 2017. This will be the first solo gallery exhibition of Thek's work in Los Angeles and the most significant presentation of his work there since a 2011 retrospective at the Hammer Museum. Thek pioneered room-size immersive installations beginning in the 1960s and his works have influenced many other artists through his use of fragile and ephemeral materials to explore personal, spiritual and mystical themes.

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Hannah Hoffman Gallery

2504 W 7th St, Suite C, Los Angeles


Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 5pm
info@hannahhoffmangallery.com
+1 213 263 9681

Paul Thek
November 12, 2016 - January 7, 2017
1010 N Highland Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038

Hannah Hoffman Gallery is pleased to present an


exhibition of works by the renowned American artist
Paul Thek (1933-1988). This will mark the first solo
gallery exhibition of the artist’s work in Los Angeles,
and the most significant presentation of his work in
L.A. since Paul Thek: Diver, a retrospective at the
Hammer Museum in 2011. Beginning his career in
New York primarily with painting, drawing and
sculpture, Thek eventually became known in the 1960s
for his immersive installations. From 1967 to 1976,
Thek lived in Europe, where he began pioneering
room-size environments. His works, often marked by
fragile or ephemeral materials with regard to the
personal, mystic, and spiritual, have been a source of
widespread influence to artists such as Mike Kelley,
Tony Oursler, and Robert Gober, amongst numerous
others.

Paul Thek was born in Brooklyn in 1933. He studied at


the Art Students League, the Pratt Institute, and Cooper
Union School of Art in the early 1950s. In 1954, Thek
moved to Miami and first exhibited his works in 1957
at Mirrel Gallery. He was the recipient of the Fulbright
Fellowship in 1967 and National Endowment for the
Arts Grant in 1976. Thek’s work has been shown at
numerous exhibitions internationally, including The
Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago; The Corcoran Gallery
of Art, Washington D.C.; P.S.1 Center for
Contemporary Art, New York; Palais de Tokyo, Paris;
Tate, London; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Reina
Sofia, Madrid; Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg; and
Moderna Museet. Stockholm. From 2010 through
2011, his retrospective traveled from the Whitney
Museum of American Art to the Carnegie Museum of
Art and the Hammer Museum. His work is in the
collections of major American and European
institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art,
New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Los Angeles; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington
D.C.; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Centre
Pompidou, Paris, and the Ludwig Museum, Cologne.

Paul Thek, Dinosaur (Unfinished), 1975. Acrylic on


newspaper. 37 5/8 x 27 x 1 1/2 inches (95.6 x 68.6 x
3.8 cm)

Paul Thek, Untitled (Red Triangles and Squiggles),


1984. Acrylic on canvas board. 25 x 31 x 1 1/4 inches
(63.5 x 78.7 x 3.2 cm)

Paul Thek, Planks of a Roman Vessel, 1979-80. Acrylic


on canvas with artist's frame and picture light. 10 1/2 x
13 1/2 inches (26.7 x 34.3 cm)

Paul Thek, Untitled (from the series 'Technological


Reliquaries'), circa 1966-67. Wax, wood, metal, hair,
plaster, paint, and Plexiglas with wig and fabric.

Paul Thek, Untitled (seascape), circa 1975. Acrylic on


canvas mounted on linen. 10 1/4 x 13 1/4 x 1 1/4 inches
(26 x 33.7 x 3.2 cm)

BAS

Paul Thek, Untitled (Dinosaurus), 1971. Wood, steel,


glass, cloth, paint and plasticine. 31 1/2 x 26 x 14 1/2
inches (80 x 66 x 36.8 cm)

Paul Thek, Untitled (Whaddaya Wanna Be a Flower?),


circa 1986. Ink on paper. 17 x 19 1/2 inches (43.2 x
49.5 cm)

Paul Thek, Untitled (Ferocious), 1971. Glass, steel,


plasticine and dried flowers and foliage. 12 1/4 x 19 3/4
x 9 1/2 inches (31.1 x 50.2 x 24.1 cm)

Paul Thek, Untitled (Two Crescent Moons), 1983.


Acrylic and gesso on newspaper. 26 7/8 x 31 3/4 x 1
1/2 inches (68.3 x 80.6 x 3.8 cm)

Paul Thek, Untitled (Hand with Ring), 1967. Wood,


plaster, paint and metal. 7 3/8 x 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches
(18.7 x 11.4 x 11.4 cm)

Paul Thek, Untitled (Meat Cable), 1968-69. Wax on


steel cable with two turnbuckles. 168 x 3 x 2 1/2 inches
(426.7 x 7.6 x 6.4 cm)

Paul Thek, Untitled (landscape with building 10/5/75),


1975. Pencil on paper. 14 3/8 x 18 3/4 x 1 1/4 inches
(36.5 x 47.6 x 3.2 cm)

Paul Thek, Untitled (landscape 10/7/75), 1975. Pencil


on paper. 16 7/8 x 21 3/4 x 1 1/4 inches (42.9 x 55.2 x
3.2 cm)

Paul Thek, Untitled (studio interior), 1975. Pencil on


paper. 16 7/8 x 21 3/4 x 1 1/4 inches (42.9 x 55.2 x 3.2
cm)

Paul Thek, Untitled (coast with trees), circa 1987.


Watercolor on paper. 21 1/2 x 25 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches
(54.6 x 64.8 x 3.8 cm)

Paul Thek, Untitled (6 studies), circa 1975. Pencil and


watercolor on paper. 14 5/8 x 18 3/4 x 1 1/4 inches
(37.1 x 47.6 x 3.2 cm)

Paul Thek, Untitled (5/9/70), 1970. Pencil on paper. 14


3/8 x 18 3/4 x 1 1/4 inches (36.5 x 47.6 x 3.2 cm)

Paul Thek, Untitled (9/27/75), 1975. Pencil on paper.


11 3/4 x 16 inches (29.8 x 40.6 cm)

Paul Thek, Untitled (interior), circa 1973. Pencil on


paper. 22 x 27 x 1 1/2 inches (55.9 x 68.6 x 3.8 cm)
Paul Thek, You Cannot Resist My Wave, 1979.
Ballpoint on paper. 11 1/2 x 9 1/4 x 5/8 inches (29.2 x
23.5 x 1.6 cm)

Peter Hujar, Study of Thek's Hand, 1967/2010.


Pigmented ink print. 20 5/8 x 26 1/2 x 1 1/4 inches
(52.4 x 67.3 x 3.2 cm)

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