David Kordansky Gallery is pleased to announce The Eighties, an exhibition of work from the 1980s by Chris Martin. Featuring both paintings and works on paper, and including many works that have never before been exhibited, the show provides a window into a seminal period in the Brooklyn-based artist's 40-year career. It opens on March 16 and will remain on view through April 27, 2019. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, March 16 from 6:00pm until 8:00pm. The Eighties charts Chris Martin's transformation from a painter of slow, heavily worked canvases into a radical figure willing to invite the widest possible range of materials and experiences into the studio. If he entered this period as a strictly abstract painter, he emerged as one who employed abstraction as methodology rather than an end result, and who became increasingly interested in infusing his work with archetypal symbols, found materials, and other vivid remnants of lived experience. Some works are truly composite objects: large-scale paintings constructed from multiple canvases, with their geometric formalism slipping into recognizable imagery. **** David Kordansky Gallery is pleased to present Starting: Works on Paper 1967 - 1970, an exhibition of never-before-seen works by Sam Gilliam from a highly formative moment in his development. The show will open on March 16 and remain on view through April 27, 2019. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, March 16 from 6:00pm until 8:00pm. In the late 1960s, as he was engaging in the experiments that led to his breakthrough Beveled-edge and Drape paintings, Gilliam was also honing methods of working on paper with watercolors and ink that constitute an important facet of his practice 50 years later. Starting includes over a dozen important examples of these early works, which can be divided into three typologies: folded and stained works; works in which thicker, expressionistic application of medium dominates; and calligraphic ink and wash works created in response to, and as documents of, the architectural compositions of the Drape paintings. The exhibition provides a remarkably personal and intimate portrait of an artist discovering the full breadth of his powers. (It also features a typewritten manuscript of one of his poems from the era.) Its stylistic variety reflects the changing contexts and circumstances in which Gilliam was working, as well as his preternatural curiosity and fierce commitment to his practice. Image: Sam Gilliam Untitled, 1968 watercolor and metallic ink on paper 23 3/4 x 18 1/8 inches(60.3 x 46 cm) framed:31 x 25 3/8 x 2 inches(78.7 x 64.5 x 5.1 cm) Photography: Lee Thompson Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles