Recent Work by Tony Berlant
April 16 ö June 15, 2003

This exhibition showcases the recent work of Los Angeles artist Tony Berlant, who has been creating vivid metal collages since the early 1960s. Berlantâs works offer richly textural surfaces that bear the marks both of his making and of the found objects he incorporates. The artist cuts up various manufactured metal receptacles then recombines the fragments. Using steel brads to hold down the metal pieces, he constructs quilt-like lyrical compositions that utilize and transform the found colors and patterns.

Berlantâs work has appeared in numerous galleries, museums and public spaces over the past four decades. Many of his pieces are also housed internationally in museum collections, including those of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Centro Cultural Arte Contemporano, Mexico City; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

This exhibition is made possible in part by The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts; American Airlines; ASTON Waikiki Beachside Hotel; and Horizon Lines LLC.