CHARLES ARNOLDI
Born 1946
Lives and works in Venice, CA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
Charles Arnoldi: Wood, The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA (catalogue)
Charles Arnoldi: New Works, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
2007
Charles Arnoldi: New Works, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Charles Arnoldi: Recent Works, Modernism, San Francisco, CA
Charles Arnoldi: The Arc Paintings, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art and The Charlotte Jackson Project Space, Santa Fe, NM
Charles Arnoldi: The Arc Paintings, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006
Museum of Design, Art and Architecture, Culver City, CA
Charles Arnoldi: Cut Metal Pieces, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
2005
Modernism, San Francisco, CA
Charles Arnoldi: New Paintings, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004
Charles Arnoldi Paintings, Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe, NM
Charles Arnoldi 2004 Paintings and Gouaches, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Charles Arnoldi: New Paintings, RB Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Charles Arnoldi Recent Paintings, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
2003
Charles Arnoldi, Works on Paper: A Thirty-Year Survey, 1972-2002, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Charles Arnoldi, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Charles Arnoldi: New Works, Modernism, San Francisco, CA
2002
Charles Arnoldi, Harmony of Line and Color, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan, Korea (catalogue)
2001
Charles Arnoldi: Paintings, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Charles Arnoldi: Paintings, Modernism, San Francisco, CA
2000
Charles Arnoldi: Paintings, Ochi Fine Art, Ketchum, ID
Charles Arnoldi: New Paintings, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Malibu, CA
1999
Charles Arnoldi: New Works, Chac-Mool Contemporary Fine Art, West Hollywood, CA
Charles Arnoldi: Painting and Sculpture, Ochi Fine Art, Ketchum, ID
Charles Arnoldi: Recent Works, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1998
New Works: Charles Arnoldi, Parchman Stremmel Galleries, San Antonio, TX
1997
Charles Arnoldi Monotypes: A Survey 1987–1996, Flanders Graphics, Minneapolis, MN
Charles Arnoldi: New Paintings, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
Charles Arnoldi: New Work, Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN
1996
Works on Paper: Gouaches and Monotypes, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Charles Arnoldi: New Work, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
Charles Arnoldi, A Mid-Career Survey: 1970–1996, Fred Hoffman Fine Art,Santa Monica, CA (catalogue)
Charles Arnoldi: New Monotypes, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1995
Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
1994
Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
1993
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Hampton, Venice, CA
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1992
Charles Arnoldi: Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper, Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL
The Works Gallery South, Costa Mesa, CA
1991
Gallery Kuranuki, Osaka, Japan (catalogue)
Charles Arnoldi: Oil Paintings on Canvas, Cast Bronze Sculptures, Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
Charles Arnoldi: Gregory Amenoff, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2008
Abstractions, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
California Dreamin’: LA to HI, Nu’uanu Gallery, Honolulu, HI
Paradigms and the Unexpected: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Shey Collection, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (catalogue)
A Focus on Jacksonville Collections, Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
Between the Lines, Five Artists, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
California in New York, Hubert Gallery, New York, NY
Las Vegas Collects, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV
2007
The Left Coast, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
Abstract: Gallery Selections, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
The Eclectic Eye: Pop and Illusion – Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO
Made in California, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
West Coast Abstraction, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Clear Cut: Wood Sculptures from Northwest Collections, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Contemporary Cool and Collected, The Mint Museums, Charlotte, NC (catalogue)
Denatured: Work from the Anderson Collection + the Anderson Graphic Arts Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (catalogue)
California Art: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, American Jewish University, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Abstract Paintings by Gallery Artists, Modernism, San Francisco, CA
L.A. Art Scene: Selected Works by Local Artists from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Beverly Hills Municipal Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
Breaking Out! Sculptural Explorations in Metal & Wood, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
A Piece of History, From L.A. . . . But Not in Paris, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Driven to Abstraction: Southern California and the Non-Objective World, 1950–1980, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2005
Paint on Metal, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ (catalogue)
Unique Works on Paper, Atelier Richard Tullis, Media Rare Gallery at Off Main, Santa Monica, CA
Off the Wall, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Inside Out: Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
A Summer Group, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Flow, Berman/Turner Projects, Santa Monica, CA
The First 80 Years, 1925–2005, Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
California Gold, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Peter Alexander, Charles Arnoldi and Laddie John Dill, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
Image + Energy, Selections from the Haskell Collection, Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, FL
Cahiers d'Art: 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Modernism, San Francisco, CA
Lost But Found: Assemblage, Collage and Sculpture, 1920–2002, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
The Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA (catalogue)
2003
Made in California: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Made in California: Selected Works/The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Todd Madigan Gallery, California State University, Bakersfield (catalogue)
Red on Red, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
Paper Works, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
California Artists of the Robert Elkon Gallery, The Elkon Gallery, NY
American Art: Wilfred Davis Fletcher Collection, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID (catalogue)
2002
Selected Abstract Paintings, Modernism, San Francisco, CA
Paintings and Photographs, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Malibu, CA
California Selected Works, Modernism, San Francisco, CA
The Third Dimension, Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Contemporary American Art, Embassy of the United States of America, Vienna, Austria (catalogue)
2001
Art in the Circle, Manhattan Heights Annex, Manhattan Beach, CA
Chouinard: A Living Legacy, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
Underfoot, Dan Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil (traveled through Fall 2004)
2001 Collector's Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Poetic Natures, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary California Works on Paper, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
2000
Eckert Fine Art, Naples, FL
On Paper: Drawings, Paintings and Collages, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Malibu, CA
Black, White and Bronze (Charles Arnoldi and Larry Bell), Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Don Gummer / Charles Arnoldi, Eckert Fine Art, Naples, FL
Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
An American Focus: The Anderson Graphic Arts Collection, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
The Intuitive Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collection, The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising Museum Foundation Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
1999
The Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collections, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
The California State Senate Contemporary California Art Collection 1998–99, State Capitol Building, Sacramento, CA
Between Reality and Abstraction: California Art at the End of the Century, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
Radical Past: Contemporary Art and Music in Pasadena, 1960–1974, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA (catalogue)
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1998
The Winter Show, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Works on Paper, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary Abstraction, Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL
Coastal Abstraction–Transcendence, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
Gold, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Malibu, CA
Forms of Thought, William Turner Gallery, Venice, CA
Lee Mullican: His Influence and Associates, Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Collector’s Show, The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Graphic Abstraction in America: A View from the First Century, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA (catalogue)
1997
California: State of the Art/Art of the State, Chac Mool Contemporary Fine Art, West Hollywood, CA
All Blue, Almost, Westfall Art, Newport Beach, CA
A Thought Intercepted, California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA
The View from Denver, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Austria
Art Foundry Editions Santa Fe at Knoedler New York, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY
Collaboration/Transformation: Lithographs from the Hamilton Press, Montgomery Gallery of Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Wood Work, Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, NY
Six L.A. Painters, Tasende Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
Household Goods, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Collector’s Show, The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
1996
California Color, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
Under Glass, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
Acquiring Minds: Contemporary Art in Santa Barbara Collections, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
California Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Collections, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
New Talent, New Ideas, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Between Reality and Abstraction, Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art Gallery at the Cannery, Las Vegas, NV
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, SC
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MI
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Memphis Brooks Museum, Memphis, TN
Menil Foundation, Houston, TX
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TXv
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Sydney, Australia
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
The Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
The Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY: BOOKS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
Paradigms and the Unexpected: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Shey Collection, Gainesville, Florida: Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, 2008.
Zakian, Michael. Charles Arnoldi: Wood, Malibu, California: The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, 2008.
Contemporary Cool and Collected, Charlotte, North Carolina: The Mint Museums, 2007.
The First 80 Years, 1925–2005, Los Angeles: Los Angeles Art Association, 2005.
Paint on Metal, Tucson: Tucson Museum of Art, 2005.
Riquelme, Kathleen and Levick, Melba. The Studio Book, New York: Universe Publishing, 2003.
Made in California: Selected Works/The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Bakersfield: Todd Madigan Gallery, 2003.
Harmony of Line and Color, Charles Arnoldi, Busan: Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, 2002.
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY: ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
2008
Devore, Kim. “Wonders in Wood,” The Malibu Times, January 10, 2008, pp. B1, B4.
2007
Cheng, DeWitt. “Charles Arnoldi at Modernism,” Artweek, June 2007, Cover, pp. 13–14.
Cook-Romero, Elizabeth. “Arcs of Triumph,” Pasatiempo, July 6–12, 2007, pp. 34, 36.
Haldeman, Peter. “Venice, California: Bohemian Rhapsody,” October 2007, p. 212.
Turner, Nancy Kay. “Charles Arnoldi,” (review of Bobbie Greenfield Gallery), ArtScene (available on web archives), September 2007.
2006
Dillon, Pam. “Chase Gifts Boon for Art Education,” Dayton Daily News, June 30, 2006, p. D16.
2005
“Looking at the Big Picture,” The Los Angeles Times, October 6, 2005, p. E3.
2004
Biller, Steven. “Dynamic Duo.” Palm Springs Life, December 2004, pp. 30-32.
2003
Frank, Peter. “Art Picks of the Week: Charles Arnoldi/Werner Drewes.” LA Weekly, February 21–27, 2003, p. 134.
Ollman, Leah. “A Few Themes, Too Many Variations.” The Los Angeles Times, Feb. 7, 2003, p. E31.
_____. “Continuing: Charles Arnoldi.” The Los Angeles Times, March 2, 2003, p. E61. “Continuing and Recommended.” Art Scene, March 2003, p. 21.
2002
Keeps, David. “Renaissance Hollywood.” Architectural Digest, May 2002, pp. 174–177, 251.
Sheets, Hilarie M. “New York Reviews: Charles Arnoldi.” ArtNews, January 2002, p. 119.
2001
Bonetti, David. “Arnoldi’s Abstracts Invigorate.” San Francisco Chronicle, September 29, 2001, pp. C1, C4.
Johnson, Ken. “Art Guide–Galleries: Chelsea.” The New York Times, September 14, 2001, p. E28.
2000
Goodrich, John. “Charles Arnoldi: Recent Works Charles Cowles Gallery,” Review, January 15, 2000, p. 15.
Johnson, Ken. “Art in Review.” The New York Times, January 7, 2000, p. E44.
Leffel, Caitlin. “SFAIE Gains Steam.” Art & Auction, September 2000, p. 131.
Margulies, Dany. “Tubular Tuber Man,” The Malibu Times, April 13, 2000, p. B1.
Vincent, Steven. “Whatever Happened To...?” Art & Auction, November 2000, pp. 168–177.