​Thursday, May 22 – Wednesday, June 4, 2014

“Grand Optimist,” an exhibition of original work by LA-based visual artist Friedrich Kunath, opened on May 22nd, featuring Kunath’s unique work that spans many artistic mediums.
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Friedrich Kunath was born in Chemnitz, Germany in 1974 and now resides in Los Angeles. He has exhibited widely including solo exhibitions at the Aspen Art Museum, CO; Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin; Kunsthalle Baden-Baden; Kunstverein Hannover and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Group exhibitions include Human Nature at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Life of Mars: the 55th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh and The World is Yours, Palazzo Grassi, Venice. Friedrich is represented by Blum & Poe in Los Angeles, BQ in Berlin, Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York, and White Cube in London. 

​Kunath works in a broad array of classical media including gouache, oil, oil pastel, lacquer, acrylic, pencil, watercolor and India ink on canvas and other surfaces. Kunath’s published Curriculum Vitae includes a quote from The Los Angeles Times Art Critic Christopher Knight who observed in his review on April 16, 2004, “Kunath does odd work, but well.”