Louis Stern Fine Arts presents Hard Edge for the Holidays, a selection of paintings, prints, and works on paper that place the gallery’s estate and contemporary artists in lively interaction. Thoughtfully chosen for the holiday season, the works in this exhibition exemplify geometric abstraction’s fascination with color, line, and form. Hard Edge for the Holidays is exclusively available on Artsy.com and will be specially featured during the month of December.

A Hard Edge painter renowned for his meticulously orchestrated arrangements of color and form, Karl Benjamin (1925 – 2012) was a devoted educator whose work blossomed amid the lively mid-twentieth century art, design, and architecture scene in Los Angeles. Highly influential as a leader and teacher in the art community, Lorser Feitelson (1898 – 1978) helped to establish Los Angeles as the important art center it is today. Throughout his lifetime, Feitelson was influenced by a myriad of artistic movements, and he developed Post-Surrealism with his wife, Helen Lundeberg. Known for her intriguing combinations of playfulness and rigor, Laurie Fendrich — a 2016 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts — merges an acute sense of the present with deep knowledge of the past. Her richly colored, geometric works pay homage to an earlier modernism, but are entirely their own 21st century selves. Mokha Laget is a New Mexico-based painter known for her geometric abstractions that utilize shaped canvas to take hard-edge color field imagery into another dimension. She has enjoyed a diverse career characterized by travel, color, and curiosity She has exhibited consistently for the past 35 years, both nationally and internationally. With her husband, Lorser Feitelson, Helen Lundeberg (1908 – 1999) founded Subjective Classicism, better known as Post Surrealism, where carefully planned subjects were used to guide the viewer through the painting, gradually revealing a deeper meaning. Beginning in the 1950s, Lundeberg’s work was focused on Hard Edge painting and geometric abstraction. Doug Ohlson (1936 – 2010) had his first New York solo exhibition in 1964, and thereafter was regularly included in major exhibitions worldwide. Throughout his career he varied the scale and method of his painting but always retained his intensity of color and form. He was known as a member of the Hunter Color School. Born in Wichita, Kansas in 1944, Richard Wilson is known for his vast, atmospheric canvases. He mingles elements of hard edge abstraction together with intuitive coloristic impulses for his abstract “landscapes,” distilled to the essentials of space and light. A Professor Emeritus at Shasta College, Wilson lives and works in Redding, California.