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Gallery News, October 2006:

The Tobey C. Moss Gallery mourns the passing of JAY RIVKIN on September 8, 2006; she was ninety years old.

JAY RIVKIN’s life has been one filled with creativity. From her early days as a dress designer to her recent work in collage, assemblage and drawing, Rivkin’s ingenuity has never failed to amaze.

She moved to California in the early 1940s, where she became the first employee of the ground-breaking animation studio, UPA. She also studied ceramics with Glen Lukens, which lead to her interest in tale and under-glaze work. After the war, she and her husband formed Jay Associates, a design company which used under-glaze painted tiles and wood to design furniture, some of which was used in the Case Study Houses of California. Jay's use of tile also extended to public artworks, she created tile murals for over thirty buildings in Los Angeles, Nevada, Hawaii and New York. Some notable commissions include the façade of the Flamingo Hotel and a mural for the Desert Inn Convention Center. Since the 1970s, she designed and illustrated many childrens books and cookbooks.

JAY RIVKIN, Dimensional Construction 1

Jay Rivkin's work is as diverse as her career path. From her elegant pencil drawings to her modernist wood assemblages to her architectonic collages to her witty comments on life and society, her artistic vision and creativity never faltered.

Jay's work was most recently seen at the 2006 Whitney Biennial, where she contributed to the Peace Tower. Before that, her work was on view at the Tobey C. Moss Gallery in 2004.

A Memorial Retrospective will be mounted at the Tobey C. Moss Gallery. It will be on view from March 17 through April 28, 2006.

Now on view through November 19:

Latin Perspectives in Prints at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Oxnard, CA

The exhibition of prints from the Tobey C. Moss Gallery collection examines the rich history of printmaking in Latin America from the early 1900s through the 1970s.

JOSE LUIS CUEVAS, La Maga

GORDON WAGNER, VR

Works by GEORGE HERMS and GORDON WAGNER are on view at the Jack Tilton Gallery in New York. Their exhibition, L.A. Object: Assemblage, Collage and Body Prints runs from October 17 through November 18, 2006.

Our next exhibition:

PETER SHIRE
Fantasies, Imaginings, Drawings, Sculptures: The Creative Synapse

November 12, 2006 through January 6, 2007

Opening Reception: Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 2 to 5pm

PETER SHIRE,
Rocking Man Ha Ha

PETER SHIRE - his name and creativity inspire awe and amazement in all of us. He is the well-known creator of whimsical teapots, Memphis-style furniture (as shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in the spring of 2006), not to overlook his monumental public sculptures around the world.

Our exhibition focuses upon conceptual paintings, drawings and maquettes that relate to public artworks stretching from Peter’s back yard to Japan. The high-key color maquette for the Glass-Simons Memorial at Angel's Point in Elysian Park is one of the special pieces we are offering. Progressive paintings and a steel-and-enamel maquette relate to the Empire Man, a sculptural installation at the Empire Center in Burbank, with an echo at the Vermont Metro station.

A complementary catalogue allows the viewer to see the finished product without spanning the globe.
Catalogue: $20 plus applicable tax and/or shipping. To pre-order a copy, email us at tobeymoss@earthlink.net

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