Charles Arnoldi

Charles Arnoldi (b. 1946) is an American painter, printmaker and sculptor who burst onto the art scene in the early 1970s. In 1972, Arnoldi was featured at Documenta V curated by Harald Szeemann with a work from his Stick Painting series in which he utilized burned tree branches he had gathered in Malibu after a fire. Throughout his career, Arnoldi has continued to explore elements of nature and has gained notoriety for his colorful, large-scale abstractions.

Recently, Arnoldi has been working on a series of paintings inspired by rock formations he saw on a trip to Machu Picchu, drawing inspiration from the imperfect and secure structures of the rocks. Then and Now will feature a number of new works from the Machu Picchu series as well as a selection of his historic works.