Albert Contreras
American, 1933 - 1977
Albert Contreras made his name as a painter in the 1960s while living in Stockholm. There he had five solo exhibitions, and curators from such prestigious institutions as the Moderna Museet, the Malmö Konsthall, and the Göteborgs Konstmuseum secured his works for their permanent collections. In 2013 Marquand Books published a comprehensive book on him with essays by Dave Hickey, Ed Schad, David Pagel, and John Yau. He is represented by Peter Mendenhall Gallery in Los Angeles.
Contreras plays with the interaction of materials, color, and symmetry within geometrically-based abstract compositions. He builds up his surfaces with mounds of acrylic gel and manipulates them with various customized tools.
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