Christopher John Gallery

Christopher John Gallery Fine Art Gallery representing over 50 contemporary Artists prints and painting and drawings at affordable prices .

Working between photography and printmaking, Terry La Rue constructs images that feel both immediate and carefully media...
04/03/2026

Working between photography and printmaking, Terry La Rue constructs images that feel both immediate and carefully mediated.

In this 2021 print, a spider rests atop a doll’s head, its reflection doubling the image below. The pairing introduces a quiet unease—the still, human-like form of the doll set against the delicate precision of the spider. Through La Rue’s handling of light and tonal depth, the image softens into something atmospheric, inviting a slower, more psychological read.

Printed image: 18 × 12 inches
Paper size: 24 × 19 inches
Year printed: 2021
Retail price: $1,000

Available to view by appointment at Christopher John Gallery in Santa Monica, CA. Please call or email to schedule a private viewing.

Kota Onouchi is a contemporary artist and printmaker, best known for blending Rembrandt-like imagery, folklore, and Japa...
04/01/2026

Kota Onouchi is a contemporary artist and printmaker, best known for blending Rembrandt-like imagery, folklore, and Japanese mythology. His imagery often feels suspended between European fairy tale traditions and Japanese narrative sensibilities, which is why Myth reads as both familiar and uncanny at once.

Throughout the composition, clustered figures, animal presences, and points of light suggest themes of protection, migration, and ritual.

This print is an artist proof left with Josephine Press following Onouchi’s visit in 2015. Modest in scale and intimate in feeling, it is a work meant to be discovered slowly, in close looking.

Printed image: 7 × 8 inches
Paper size: 13.75 x 14.25 inches
Year printed: 2015
Retail price: $3,000

See Myth and other rare artist proofs in person at Christopher John Gallery in Santa Monica. Call or email to book a private appointment.

Interested in supporting the studio?Beyond using the space to make work, one of the best ways to support Josephine Press...
03/30/2026

Interested in supporting the studio?

Beyond using the space to make work, one of the best ways to support Josephine Press is simple: buy a print, live with it, and talk about it.

We’re opening a rare archive of artist proofs and BATs—works that have been tucked away for decades.

Appointments open daily. Call or email to schedule your visit. We'll accommodate your schedule.

For 42 years, Josephine Press has been a place where artists come to experiment, refine, and evolve their work.Under Joh...
03/23/2026

For 42 years, Josephine Press has been a place where artists come to experiment, refine, and evolve their work.

Under John Greco’s direction, the studio has been shaped by a belief in process—where ideas are tested, outcomes aren’t always predetermined, and the work unfolds over time.

If you’ve spent time here, you’re part of that history. Share your story, your work, or your memories. Let’s remember the many moments that shaped this place.

In "The Inner Circle", Udeni Dharmapala invites us to slow down and notice how form becomes relationship. The spiraling ...
03/16/2026

In "The Inner Circle", Udeni Dharmapala invites us to slow down and notice how form becomes relationship. The spiraling botanical shapes lean toward one another, connected by rhythm rather than realism. They feel less like individual blooms and more like presences held in quiet conversation.

Here, Dharmapala pares the image back to essentials. Color carries weight. Line creates structure. Negative space offers room to breathe. The enclosing geometry suggests containment and care, a space that feels inward, protective, and deliberate.

See "The Inner Circle" and other works by Udeni Dharmapala in person at Christopher John Gallery in Santa Monica. Book a private appointment.

From the Flat Files: Cuban Lithograph, signed R. Pau.This print reminds us how much story can live inside a print. Passp...
03/14/2026

From the Flat Files: Cuban Lithograph, signed R. Pau.

This print reminds us how much story can live inside a print. Passport pages and travel documents are woven into the figure’s headwrap, transforming it into a layered map of movement, identity, and history. Carved lines and graphic contrast give the image a powerful presence, while the gaze of the subject holds the viewer in quiet contemplation.

See “Maverba” for yourself at Christopher John Gallery, Santa Monica. Email or call to book a private viewing appointment.

Nathaniel Bustion, a multidisciplinary artist and educator whose practice spanned printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, and ...
03/13/2026

Nathaniel Bustion, a multidisciplinary artist and educator whose practice spanned printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, and painting, often drew from African sculptural traditions and personal history to explore themes of lineage and identity. In the first frame, the figure of “Big Momma” becomes more than a single person as she emerges as a symbolic center, an anchor of family, tradition, and generational wisdom.

Photographic images, ceremonial forms, and mask-like faces surround the central figure, evoking the many lives, stories, and histories that flow through one matriarch. The richly textured surface of the relief print gives the work a sense of vibration and movement, as if memory itself were rising to the surface.

With Bustion’s passing in 2022, we are especially honored to hold a small number of his final printer proofs. See the limited edition etchings in person at Christopher John Gallery in Santa Monica. Email or call to book a private viewing appointment.

People may know David MacDonald for his ceramics—vessels patiently built from clay and layered with the richly patterned...
03/10/2026

People may know David MacDonald for his ceramics—vessels patiently built from clay and layered with the richly patterned surfaces that have defined his practice for more than four decades. As a longtime professor at Syracuse University, MacDonald has devoted his career to creating functional works of art meant to be touched, held, and used, where pattern and form become part of everyday life.

This lithograph reveals the same visual language unfolding on paper. Symmetry holds the composition together while stitched lines, zigzags, and repeating marks build a rhythmic surface. Soft pink forms open like wings at the top, while darker geometric shapes anchor the center, suggesting something part insect, part mask, part totem.

See this limited edition printer proof and other handpulled lithographs by David MacDonald in person at Christopher John Gallery in Santa Monica. Email or call to book a private viewing appointment.

Dreamlike, mysterious, and quietly unsettling—these prints by Simphiwe Ndzube invite us into a world where folklore, mem...
03/09/2026

Dreamlike, mysterious, and quietly unsettling—these prints by Simphiwe Ndzube invite us into a world where folklore, memory, and imagination merge.

Known internationally for his vibrant mixed-media paintings and sculptures, Ndzube often builds characters that feel part human, part spirit, and part myth. In these early etchings, that same language emerges in monochrome—figures that appear both vulnerable and powerful, suspended somewhere between the real and the surreal.

In The Gravedigger, a solitary figure sits in contemplation, framed by sweeping horn-like forms that curve around the body like a protective or ominous presence. Nearby, a second work presents a wandering rider astride an uncanny animal, a scene that feels lifted from a dream or folktale, where identities blur and transformation seems possible.

Across both works, Ndzube explores themes that continue to define his practice: migration, storytelling, and the imaginative spaces people create to navigate history and identity.
See these limited edition printers proofs in person at Christopher John Gallery. Email or call to book a private viewing appointment.

In Chain Gang, Husband examines labor as both physical action and social structure. The composition unfolds laterally, e...
02/06/2026

In Chain Gang, Husband examines labor as both physical action and social structure. The composition unfolds laterally, emphasizing repetition, duration, and enforced rhythm as figures move through a continuous cycle of work. Individual identities recede in favor of collective motion, underscoring the systemic nature of the scene.

Rendered through disciplined line work and restrained tonal variation, the print resists dramatization. Instead, it situates labor within a broader visual history of American realism and social commentary, where gesture and posture function as primary conveyors of meaning. The result is a sober meditation on endurance, control, and the mechanics of collective effort.

As we mark Black History Month, we’re honored to share work that reflects the depth, continuity, and everyday rituals of American life through Ron’s lens.

Working in lithography, Ron Husband uses finely controlled line, tonal restraint, and layered mark-making to build depth...
02/04/2026

Working in lithography, Ron Husband uses finely controlled line, tonal restraint, and layered mark-making to build depth without excess.

The figures are modeled through directional hatching rather than heavy shading, allowing gesture and posture to carry the composition. Negative space plays an active role, heightening the sense of pause and concentration, while subtle shifts in line weight guide the eye through the room’s shared energy.

As we mark Black History Month, we’re honored to share work that reflects the depth, continuity, and everyday rituals of American life through Ron’s lens.

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