Henry Codax & Salomón Huerta

“A canvas is never empty.”

-Robert Rauschenberg

Christopher Grimes Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new works by Henry Codax. This will be the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery. The monochrome paintings of Henry Codax consider the exploration of color isolated to the purest form of abstraction. Without references or painterly gestures signifying authorship, this new body of work questions our contemporary focus on the personality behind the art object giving the viewer the opportunity to become immersed in self-reflection.

The South Gallery will feature new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Salomón Huerta. For this exhibition, Huerta presents a new series of portraits depicting celebrated boxers such as Mohammed Ali, Rocky Marciano and Mike Tyson. Huerta’s portraits continue his examination of assumed social identity, this time by contrasting these powerful and hyper-masculine subjects of sports history with the personal intimacy of the close-up each done in loosely brushed but heavily pigmented watercolor.

Huerta (Tijuana, Mexico, 1965) lives and works in Los Angeles. His work has been included in the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, and exhibitions at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, and a solo exhibition of his paintings at Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX. Huerta's paintings are in the collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA and Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, among others.