MOKHA LAGET
In Shape, In Color

September 8 through October 7, 2017
Opening reception: Friday, September 8 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM

Artist Talk: Mokha Laget
with ArtBeat Santa Fe's Kathryn M Davis
Wednesday, September 27, 2017 | 6:30 - 8:00 PM

David Richard Gallery, LLC
1570 Pacheco Street, Suite A1
Santa Fe, NM 87505
(505) 983-9555
www.DavidRichardGallery.com


Mokha Laget In Her First Solo Exhibition with David Richard Gallery Presents New Shaped and Colorful Stained Canvases That Create Illusions of Three-Dimensional Structures Floating In Space  

David Richard Gallery is pleased to announce representation of international artist, Mokha Laget and present her first solo exhibition with the gallery, In Shape, In Color. In this current body of work, Laget pushes the interaction of color combined with shaped compositions to create the illusion of three-dimensional space. She utilizes Hans Hofmann's "push and pull” color theory and Josef Albers’ teachings on "color interactions". However, Laget then pushes it further by incorporating the extremes of color juxtapositions explored by Op Artists, such as Julian Stanczak and Richard Anuszkiewicz, to create vibrational qualities to excite the eye and add a highly retinal experience, while also leveraging the interplay of color value shifts and shaped canvases from Downing and Reed of the Washington Color School to create the sense of volume. This series of paintings is fresh and exciting with novel compositions and illusory effects that create a tension between the two-dimensional picture plane and three-dimensional space. 

In Shape, In Color will be presented September 9 through October 7, 2017 with an opening reception with the artist Saturday, September 9 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM at David Richard Gallery at 1570 Pacheco Street, Suite A1, Santa Fe, NM 87505, phone: (505) 983-9555.A digital catalogue will be available online with essays by William Peterson, Art Historian and critic, Founder of ArtSpace magazine, former Associate Editor of Museum Editions at the Getty Museum and Nancy Zastudil, Owner/Director of Central Features Contemporary Art and Administrative Director of the Frederick Hammersley Foundation.


About Mokha Laget:

Born in North Africa and schooled in France, then traveling internationally as an interpreter in foreign service and exhibiting her artwork around the globe has certainly informed Laget’s paintings, both in terms of composition and color palette. 

Laget studied at the Corcoran College of Fine Art in Washington, DC with Paul Reed as well as notable Washington DC artists Leon Berkowitz and Tom Green. She was also a studio assistant to Gene Davis for many years.

Living and working as a painter in Washington DC one cannot help but be influenced and inspired by the works of the founding members of the Washington Color School painters including Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Gene Davis, Thomas Downing, Howard Mehring and Paul Reed. Their approach to non-objective painting explored the use of translucent colors layered on unprimed canvas to create a wide range of hues with the greatest economy of means. However, their ingenious combination of those value changes along a continuum really created the sense of volume, space and perspective with just a few colors and shaped canvas. Thus, her knowledge of the Washington Color School and technical skills run very deep, while her diverse experiences enabled her to find her own voice and a way to create a unique and fresh body of work.

Mokha Laget has exhibited internationally for the past 30 years, including in France, Spain, Japan, Italy, Canada, Egypt, England and the United States. Her work has been covered in Art in America, The New Art Examiner, The Washington Post, Art, Ltd, The New Mexican, THE magazine, Dallas Morning News, TREND Magazine, The Washington Review, and the Santafean. Her work is in the collections of the Ulrich Museum, The Museum of Geometric and Madi Art, Art in Embassies, The Artery Collection, The National Institutes of Health and included in many prominent national and international private and corporate collections.  Laget lives and works “off the grid” in her studio in the mountains of New Mexico.
    

About David Richard Gallery:

Since its inception the gallery has produced museum quality exhibitions that feature Post War abstraction in the US. The presentations have addressed specific decades and geographies as well as certain movements and tendencies. While the gallery has long been recognized as an important proponent of post-1960s abstraction—including both the influential pioneers as well as a younger generation of practitioners in this field— in keeping with this spirit of nurture and development the gallery presents established and very new artists who embrace more gestural and representational approaches to the making of art as well as young emerging artists.

In 2015 David Richard Gallery launched DR Projects to provide a platform for artists of all stripes—international, national, local, emerging and established—to present special solo projects or to participate in unique collaborations or thematic exhibitions. The goal is to offer a fresh look at contemporary art practice from a broad spectrum of artists and presentations.

Associated Artist

• Mokha Laget

Associated Exhibitions

• Mokha Laget In Shape, In Color
  September 4, 2017 - October 7, 2017
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• December 13, 2022
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• November 14, 2022
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• November 7, 2022
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• September 29, 2022
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• June 3, 2022
  Mokha Laget: Perceptualism
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  June 11 - August 7, 2022
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• April 15, 2021
  Off the Grid: Print Portfolio by Mokha Laget
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• September 9, 2019
  Landfall Press: Five Decades of Printmaking
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• August 21, 2019
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  August 21, 2019
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• August 9, 2019
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• August 5, 2019
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• July 6, 2019
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  July 6, 2019
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• June 18, 2019
  Mokha Laget: Polychrome Polygons at David Richard Gallery
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  June 18, 2019
  


• June 15, 2019
  Mokha Laget
  12 Jun — 13 Jul 2019
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• June 12, 2019
  Mokha Laget: Polychrome Polygons
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  June 12, 2019
  
  


• June 5, 2019
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  June 5, 2019
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• May 30, 2019
  Press Release - Mokha Laget "Polychrome Polygons" at David Richard Gallery


• January 22, 2018
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• September 4, 2017
  Unmoored Geographies: Works from the Permanent Collection
  Ulrich Museum of Art
  Beren and Amsden Galleries
  Wichita State University, 09/04/2017
  
  


• September 4, 2017
  Visually Displaced
  Santa Fe Arts Journal, 09/04/2017
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• August 28, 2017
  Mokha Laget’s ‘In Shape, In Color’ at David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe
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• August 12, 2017
  Press Release - Mokha Laget "In Shape, In Color"