NEW YORK, NY.- Stux + Haller announce the opening of Ronnie Landfield: Five Decades, a solo exhibition of select paintings spanning the artistʼs career from the late 1960ʼs to his most recent work in 2015. The exhibition opens on January 13th and runs until February 20th.

During the five decades of his career Ronnie Landfield has stayed true to his course as a painter of soaring veils of color. Louis Zona, Director of the Butler Institute of American Art, wrote: “To stand in front of a Landfield painting is to be transported into a world where color feeds upon color and every inch of the canvas is considered.”

Ronnie Landfield was the youngest of the youthquake generation of American artists of the 1960’s. He began painting in 1962 at the tender age of 15. At 16 he was at the Kansas City Art Institute. By 1969 his luminous paintings had already been exhibited in museum exhibitions such as the Whitney Annual (later Biennial).Landfield had his first solo exhibition in New York at the David Whitney Gallery. That first exhibition sold out with four works going to major museums: MoMA, the Whitney, the Bavarian State Museum in Germany, and the Hirshhorn. Since then Landfield has had over 70 solo exhibitions around the world - 27 in New York City. The New Museum includes Ronnie Landfield as part of its Bowery Artist Tribute.

Known as a renowned colorist Landfield writes that his art is about the expression of transcendent, universal themes. He describes his tools as “color, space, and form.” Art critic Karen Wilkin wrote of Landfield’s paintings that they were: “first and foremost about the way someone in love with the liquidity and chromatic richness of paint moves his chosen medium across a canvas, but they also evoked idyllic landscapes—a vision of the Golden Age extrapolated, perhaps, from Matisse’s Le Bonheur de vivre and translated into pure color and gesture.”

Again in the words of Louis Zona: “Ronnie Landfield is, pure and simple, one of the best painters in America.”