Gallery Luisotti

06/24/2026

“I take a lot of photographs and show very few. If there is too much reality, too much identifiable sense of time and place, I don’t show these images.

I try to eliminate the reality, time and any sense of specific place. Of course this is extremely difficult with photography. Within a frame there are so many elements that are present and you cannot choose those that you want to keep and those that you want to eliminate. The only elements that you can control are contrast and tonality, light essentially.

With photography, you just have to accept what is there. That is where the difficulty of photography lies. Photography is not something that you can make. It cannot be forced. You have to accept the subject.“ - Toshio Shibata

Toshio Shibata: concrete poetry
On view through July 25th

06/20/2026

Toshio Shibata: concrete poetry
Now on view!
June 20 - July 25, 2026

We are pleased to present a survey exhibition of photographs by Toshio Shibata, bringing together works spanning more than three decades of the artist’s career.

Since the late 1970s, Shibata has focused his attention on landscapes transformed by roads, dams, retaining walls, irrigation channels, and other forms of infrastructure. Rather than approaching these sites as symbols of environmental loss or technological progress, he treats them as opportunities for formal investigation, discovering unexpected beauty within the systems that quietly organize modern life.

View these stunning lyrical works in person.

06/13/2026

Now live on YouTube: Andrew Witt and Nicholas Gamzo in conversation on Lewis Baltz: The Deaths in Newport!
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06/11/2026

Look closely! ⚽️🥅🏟️ Ron Jude

Happy World Cup Day!

06/06/2026

Happy birthday to John Divola! On a prior birthday he made one of his wonderful Gigapan photographs seen above.

06/05/2026

Please join us for a closing reception on Saturday, June 13 from 3 to 5 pm



See you there?

05/14/2026

“Mark Twain said that he’d fallen into a California river and “came out all dusty”. – Mark Ruwedel

Mark Ruwedel’s images of the Mojave River are included in the new high desert publication “Formations”.

“The Mojave River, 110 miles long, “flows” from the San Bernardino Mountains to Soda Lake in the desert. “Flows” is somewhat inaccurate as much of the river’s water is underground. It is often referred to as an intermittent river. At certain areas however, notably at Victorville, the underlying bedrock pushes the water up to the surface.

And, after heavy rains, the Mojave looks like a “real” river, if only for a brief period.
Historically, the Mojave has been known by many names, including: Arroyo de los Martires, Rio de las Animas, Inconstant River, Mohahve River, Macaby River.

I first photographed along the Mojave around 2002, in Afton Canyon and environs. At the time, I was interested in aboriginal trade routes and their relation to remnants of Ice Age lakes. More recently, I have identified the river itself as a subject. This selection of images represents some of the work to date.” – Mark Ruwedel 

Link in bio to order a copy. 

04/01/2026