edition & galerie hoffmann
www.galeriehoffmann.de
Görbelheimer Mühle 1
61169 Friedberg
Partner gallery: Galerie Lahumière
Leon Polk Smith
1906, Chickasha, OK, USA – 1996, New York, NY, USA
Leon Polk Smith's work is organized mainly along two series of works. The earlier shaped-canvas “correspondence”-series, and the multipart, shaped-canvas “constellation”-series of paintings. Smith's radical reduction of his field of action to three elements––line, color, and the concept of space––aligns his work with European avant-gardes, such as Piet Mondrian's and Theo van Doesburg's concept of Neoplasticism.
Institutional solo exhibitions of the artist's work include 2023 Going Beyond Space, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Switzerland; 2021 Hiding in Plain Sight, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ, United States; 1998 Collages, 1954–1986, Musée de Grenoble, France; 1995 American Painter, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, USA; 1989 Leon Polk Smith, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen; 1984 Collagen 1981–1983, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; 1964 Leon Polk Smith, Studio Galerie, Frankfurt am Main, all Germany; Leon Polk Smith, Santa Fe Museum, NM, USA.
Works by Leon Polk Smith are part of public collections including The Brooklyn Museum; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, all New York, NY, USA; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA; Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, USA; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nuremberg; Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt; Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen; Sammlung Marli Hoppe-Ritter, Waldenbuch, all Germany; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; MUMOK, Museum of Modern Art, Ludwig Foundation, Vienna, Austria.
edition & galerie hoffmann organized two duo exhibitions in 2021 and 2006, as well as a solo exhibition in 1999 of the artist's work. Two solo exhibitions in 1991 and 1987 at the galerie hoffmann, as well as an institutional retrospective in 1989 at the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen were realized in collaboration with Leon Polk Smith. In addition, four portfolios were published in 1995 and 1987 in collaboration between edition hoffmann and the artist.
