edition & hoffmann gallery
www.galeriehoffmann.de
Görbelheimer Mühle 1
61169 Friedberg
Partner gallery: Galerie Lahumière
Leon Polk Smith
Leon Polk Smith 1906, Chickasha, OK, USA – 1996, New York, NY, USA
Leon Polk Smith's work is largely organized into two series: the earlier shaped-canvas "Correspondence" series and the multi-part shaped-canvas "Constellation" series. The radical reduction of Smith's work to three pictorial elements—line, color, and spatial concept—places it in relation to European avant-garde traditions, such as Piet Mondrian's and Theo van Doesburg's concept of Neoplasticism.
Institutional solo exhibitions:
2023 Leon Polk Smith: Going Beyond Space, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
2021 Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ, USA
1998 Leon Polk Smith: Collages, 1954–1986, Musée de Grenoble, France
1995 Leon Polk Smith: American Painter, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, USA
1989 Leon Polk Smith, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen
1984 Leon Polk Smith: Collages 1981–1983, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
1964 Leon Polk Smith, Studio Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1943 Leon Polk Smith, Santa Fe Museum, NM, USA
In 2021 and 2006, edition & galerie hoffmann held twoExhibitions, as well as a solo exhibition in 1999 featuring works by Leon Polk Smith. 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. Four portfolios were published in 1995 and 1987 in collaboration between the artist and edition hoffmann.
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, 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
New National Gallery, Berlin
New Museum Nuremberg
Museum of Concrete Art, Ingolstadt
Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen
Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection, Waldenbuch, Germany
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Museum of Contemporary Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna, Austria
