Louis Stern Fine Arts returns for its sixth consecutive year to the 2026 Dallas Art Fair with a sampling of the gallery’s historic-focused program. Lorser Feitelson (1898 – 1978), Helen Lundeberg (1908 – 1999), and Karl Benjamin (1925 – 2012), three artists who defined and epitomized the California Hard Edge movement, represent the gallery’s concentration on Mid-Century West Coast Geometric Abstraction. Mimi Chen Ting (1946 – 2022) was a Chinese American painter, printmaker, and performance artist whose high-spirited practice fused Eastern and Western aesthetics. Ynez Johnston (1920 – 2019) created imaginative, mythic landscapes and forms that amalgamated ancient and modern art vocabularies. Doug Ohlson’s (1936 – 2010) hard-edged geometric compositions played with nuanced relationships between colors, retaining their intensity of color and form across method and scale. Considered by many to be the “Father of Mexican Modernism,” Alfredo Ramos Martínez (1871 – 1946) was a painter, muralist, and educator who lived and worked in Mexico, Paris, and Los Angeles. Ken Price’s (1935 – 2012) works on paper reflect his whimsical biomorphic ceramic sculptures, which subverted classical forms and were instrumental in elevating clay from a craft to a fine art medium.
A selection of contemporary artists shown by the gallery will also be on view. Gabriele Evertz’s (b. 1945) work is concerned with sensations and perceptions, executed with meticulous precision and organized around the history and theory of color. Heather Hutchison’s (b. 1964) works capture the essence of the phenomena of light and how it shifts in natural environments. Ruth Pastine’s (b. 1964) light-filled paintings juxtapose austerity with the limitless possibilities of color systems. Mark Leonard’s (b. 1954) work lies in the interdependence of equal and opposite forces, balancing order and chaos, logic and feeling, love and loss. Ed Ruscha (b. 1937), a leader of the Pop Art Movement, playfully incorporates text and advertising aesthetics into his art.
Dallas/Fort Worth locals may be familiar with select gallery artists from their inclusion in local museum collections. Numerous works by Ynez Johnston are held by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art as part of the Tamarind Lithography Workshop Collection. The Dallas Museum of Art has collected works by Ynez Johnston, Doug Ohlson, and Alfredo Ramos Martínez. Paintings by Doug Ohlson, Lorser Feitelson, Karl Benjamin, and Mark Leonard have also been donated to the annual TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art contemporary art auction held at The Rachofsky House in Dallas in recent years.