Leo Valledor (1936-1989), originally from San Francisco, was a founding member of Park Place Gallery in Lower Manhattan in the 1960s. He explored shaped canvases, reductive color palettes and multi-component canvases to create the illusion of three-dimensional shapes in a two-dimensional picture plane. Color As Space surveys Valledor’s use of color combined with rectangular, curvilinear and circular shaped canvases to create “sculptural tension” through painting.
David Richard Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition, Leo Valledor: Color As Space, the gallery’s third solo exhibition for the artist presented in collaboration with WhiteBox as part of the Frieze New York art fair 2018 VIP program, “In The City”. The opening reception will be Tuesday, May 1 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM and the presentation will remain on view through Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at WhiteBox, 329 Broome Street, New York, NY 10002, P: 212 714 2347. A public panel discussion will be held Monday, May 7 from 7:00 to 8:00 pm
