WEST HOLLYWOOD CA.- Louis Stern Fine Arts is presenting Perspective and Plane, a group exhibition featuring pairs of works by the gallery’s estate and contemporary artists. Known for its championing of historical artists like Lorser Feitelson, Helen Lundeberg, Karl Benjamin, and Alfredo Ramos Martínez, Louis Stern Fine Arts has also fostered the careers of contemporary living artists, including James Little, Mark Leonard, Mokha Laget, and Cecilia Z. Miguez.

Perspective and Plane merges these two aspects of the gallery’s program. Works by estate artists are presented in tandem with works by contemporary artists affiliated with Louis Stern Fine Arts. Each work dialogues with its counterpart from a different era, taking disparate approaches to similar subject matter or kindred aesthetic concerns; new themes and interpretations emerge through the juxtaposition of past and present.

Paintings by Doug Ohlson and Mokha Laget both chafe and struggle against the predetermined boundaries of the traditional canvas, while Lorser Feitelson’s sinuous red line in a spare composition is reflected in three dimensions by the negative space in Knopp Ferro’s hanging metal sculpture. Frederick Wight abstracts and elongates the moon’s motion across the sky into a beam of light that is compacted and contained in Chen Ruo Bing’s adjacent painting. Karl Benjamin and James Little dazzle with contrasting patterns in a push-pull dance.

Heather Hutchison and Helen Lundeberg capture the elusiveness of fleeting light in sculptural and painting form. Richard Wilson’s multi-toned grid is transmuted into the welcoming glow of open windows when placed beside Mark Feldstein’s black-and-white photograph of shuttered windows on a building’s façade. Cecilia Z. Miguez and Ynez Johnston play with vertical frieze patterns of mysterious narrative imagery across vastly different scales, while Mark Leonard and Alfredo Ramos Martínez question the roles and meanings of architectural and communal spaces through absence and presence.

Louis Stern Fine Arts represents the Estates of Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Mark Feldstein, Ynez Johnston, Helen Lundeberg, Doug Ohlson, Alfredo Ramos Martínez, and Frederick Wight.