modern museum fort worth
very impressed by the modern art museum in fort worth. completed in 2002 and designed by tadao ando, it joins phillip johnson’s 1961 amon carter museum and louis khan’s 1972 kimbell museum. an...
View Articlethe last images (i promise) that i’ll post
of the “wall drawing” show: above: wendy hough’s chalk on black paint drawing on the left, and gerhard mayer’s printed on vinyl and applied to the wall. below: sol lewitt and wendy hough....
View Articlesome friends of mine built a house for their art.
don’t get me wrong, they live there too. and it’s a very livable house. but the house was designed to showcase a large collection of contemporary art made by women. its organized around an elegant...
View Articlewe’re opening our show of artists from düsseldorf
in the new york gallery tonight. here are some installation shots: an installation by luka fineisen made from artificial hair and an existing skylight. paintings by stefan ettlinger… and jutta...
View Articlethere couldn’t be more difference
between my current shows on the east and west coasts… in my emil lukas show in san francisco, i’ve given 5 large and 4 small artworks 3,500 square feet of space. there are as many walls without...
View Articlei’ve been working
on an exhibition of jay defeo’s work for the last six months (actually, i started working on it in september of 2005 when i first visited the storage facility for jay defeo trust). but recently i’ve...
View Articlemy writing about jay defeo
for the publication we produced for our exhibition: 1. a compass is an instrument used to describe a circle or arc. Family lore says that as a child Jay DeFeo would spend hours practicing to draw a...
View Articlean interview with jutta haeckel…
something like a long-distance, digital studio visit… Todd Hosfelt: the process in which you work is related to print making, but seems to me to be unique in painting, would you explain it? Jutta...
View Articlejonathan brand is installing
a full-scale 1969 ford mustang – made of watercolor paper – in the new york gallery. as a kid, the artist restored three vintage cars with his father. the last one, a 1969 mustang, had been sitting...
View Articlea look back at our clementina street gallery
i opened hosfelt gallery in october 1996 – 15 years ago. today is the last day in our clementina street gallery in san francisco. we’ve been here for 13 years. feeling a bit nostalgic… so...
View Articlesecretly, david has been writing a blog…
thoughtful musings on exhibitions and artworks and their place in art and social history. ruminations on the de young’s 2010 shows “the birth of impressionism” and “post-impressionist masterpieces”...
View Articleluka fineisen
this e-mail dialogue with luka fineisen took place over many weeks as we prepared for her solo exhibition in our new york gallery. i’ve spared you the construction and shipping logistics… TH:...
View Articleour new san francisco exhibition space
it was going to take an extraordinary space to replace our beautiful clementina street gallery, but that building was to be demolished to make way for a condo development and we were ready for change....
View Articlecurating an opening exhibition
while our new space is gorgeous, a gallery is only as good as the art in it… an inaugural show is the benchmark, setting your audiences’ expectations. we couldn’t open with a solo exhibition. the...
View Articlea studio visit with william t. wiley,
in preparation for his first solo show at hosfelt gallery. visiting wiley’s studio is like going into a dark room after being in bright sunlight — your eyes need to adjust to the density before you can...
View Article“holding it together”
is a show i’ve curated about assemblage and collage. in art vernacular, an assemblage (pronounced a-ˌsäm-ˈbläj) or collage is made by putting together preexisting things that weren’t intended to go...
View Articleour booth at PULSE in miami
the dust has settled on what was our best art fair ever. here’s a look at our booth: one of emil lukas’ “larvae” paintings (made using fly larvae to drag pigment across the canvas, leaving inky...
View Articleandrew schoultz is ripping up his drawings…
and working like crazy on what will be a spectacular installation… opening here on saturday. Filed under: art, curating / exhibition design, drawing, painting
View Articlejerry saltz’s insightful piece on museums
http://www.vulture.com/2015/04/jerry-saltz-on-new-whitney-museum.html (notice jay defeo’s the rose in the background) the drawing and photo of the new renzo piano-designed building came from the...
View Articlewe’re installing an exhibition called JAY DEFEO / ALTER EGO
here’s a bit about my curatorial vision for the show: When i began considering an exhibition of pairs of related works by Jay DeFeo – twins, if you will – I thought of Joseph Conrad’s story The...
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