Southern California’s premier contemporary art gallery marks another milestone as it celebrates 15 years in the desert

Highlights from the past season include a charged opening for Pop Art icon Mel Ramos. Demand for Ramos’
vivid nudes posing alongside items recognizable in today’s popular culture is soaring, currently commanding nearly a year’s wait by savvy art collectors.

An important exhibition spanning 30 years of work by abstract expressionist Hans Hofmann proved to be both a curatorial and financial success. New work by Peter Halley and the critically acclaimed and never-before-exhibited Earth series from 1993-95 by Jennifer Bartlett were met with unprecedented enthusiasm.

Bartlett — with her 50-foot-long Rhapsody a highlight of the Edward Broida collection currently on display at NYC’s MOMA — is one of a chosen few exhibiting at this year’s SITE Santa Fe, among only 13 artists selected from an international pool by curator Klaus Ottmann for the renowned event.

In addition to opening an East Coast Museum retrospective to rave reviews by the New York Times, William Wegman presented his brilliantly collaged postcard paintings to Southern California art patrons, and even found time during his desert stay for commissioned portraits utilizing one of the few remaining
large-format Polaroid cameras still in existence today — benefiting a handful of fortunate collectors and, in some cases, their beloved pets.

Gallery artists Robert Graham and Dale Chihuly were both honored at a not-to-be-missed extravaganza orchestrated by the talented Michael Childers at the Palm Springs Art Museum. The sold-out crowd was entertained by the hilarious antics of MC Eric Idle, while presenters included Brooke Shields and Anjelica Huston.

During the 2006-2007 season, Imago is proud to present an exhibition of epic proportions by a group of artists who have altered the course of contemporary painting dating back to the ‘60s and ‘70s — those who reside on the West Coast. Works by Ed Ruscha, Ken Price, Joe Goode, Tony Berlant, Charles Arnoldi, Ed Moses, Larry Bell, Dennis Hopper, Robert Graham, Peter Alexander, Billy Al Bengston, Sam Francis and DeWain Valentine will be featured.

Additional artists represented include: Arman, Ed Benavente, Fletcher Benton, Eugene Brodsky, John Buck, Catherine Chalmers, Bruce Cohen, Roy De Forest, Sam Gilliam, Jun Kaneko, Karen LaMonte, Terence La Noue, Gwynn Murrill, Ginny Ruffner, Sophie Ryder, Therman Statom, Donald Sultan, Boaz Vaadia, Bertil Vallien, and Tom Wesselmann, among others.

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