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Togonon Gallery

October 22 - November 24, 2011

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77 Geary Street Second Floor San Francisco, CA 94108
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Play it by eye
A master of geometric abstraction, Leo Valledor will have a one man exhibit of his late work featuring ten large canvases rarely seen by the public since his untimely death in 1989 . Art critics have placed Valledor's work in the league of Ellsworth Kelly, Barnett Newman and Leon Polk Smith. The works in the exhibition demonstrate Valledor's journey into new forms of painting that he started as a member of the influential Park Place Group in New York in the 60s when minimalism was starting out. "Play it by Eye" captures the energy of jazz, the complexities of Valledor's "four-dimensional color" and his attachments to formalist and Zen thinking. According to University of Texas art historian Linda Dalrymple, the growing critical recognition of Valledor's art, along with that of the Park Place Gallery, restores a vital element to the history of art making in the United States from the 1960s onward. Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11-5:30 p.m. Open until 8 pm on 1st Thursday of month