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Quint Gallery

Quint Gallery was founded by Mark Quint in 1981. The gallery exhibits contemporary art by emerging,

Locations:

Quint Gallery / The Museum Of__
7655 Girard Avenue, La Jolla, CA 92037
7722 Girard Avenue, La Jolla, CA 92037
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday from 11am -5 pm

ONE
1955 Julian Ave, San Diego, CA 92113
Viewable Tuesdays-Sundays from 11am-4pm

06/13/2025

On View at 7655 Girard

Patricia Patterson
The Kitchen Garden, 1988
casein on canvas
46 x 98 in

Quint Gallery is pleased to present a group of three paintings by Patricia Patterson at 7655 Girard Avenue. Created between 1988 and 1990, they depict imagery from everyday life on Ireland’s Aran Islands. In her early 20s, while studying art at Parson’s School of Design in New York, Patterson embarked on the beginning of her career-long relationship with the Aran Islands, visiting over months and years, living with and befriending a tight-knit community of families. She picked up the language and spent her time painting their stone-wall lined landscapes, tenderly tracing their domestic lives and depicting interactions that revolved around their bright and active kitchens, and the small farms that sustained them.

Usually framed by a two-tone wooden artist’s frame, Patterson’s paintings are recognized for the fast and loose brushwork that conveys much information and immediacy, and for making use of intensely bright hues of casein paint that often exaggerate the realism of her subjects.

06/02/2025

On view at 7722 Girard

Anne Mudge
Deodara, 2024
stainless steel wire and beads
55 x 24 x 24 in

Installed in the window space of the gallery, a new sculpture by San Diego-based artist Anne Mudge will be visible at all hours. Deodara is a recent continuation of Mudge’s work influenced by nature: seedpods, pinecones, nests, and roots are all starting points for her process-oriented practice. Central to her body of work is the weightless sculptural form, often organized from a central tension point, sensitive to the inherent properties of her materials. Wires are methodically twisted, folded, wrapped and unwrapped by hand with great attention to detail over weeks and months in her studio, compressed at times with the introduction of colored and reflective beads before being released into flexible lines that govern the structure of the work.
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05/28/2025

Now on View at 7722 Girard Avenue

Mel Bochner
Money, 2006
oil on black velvet
35 1/2 x 46 1/2 in

Quint Gallery is pleased to exhibit ‘Money’, a 2006 painting by Mel Bochner (1940–2025).

Bochner’s ‘Thesaurus’ paintings begin with a single term, accumulating synonymous words and phrases through close attention to sense, sound, and rhythm. In 2005, he began working with velvet, and taking cues from printmaking, each letter is laser-cut into an acrylic matrix, filled by hand with oil paint, then pressed onto the velvet with 750 tons of vertical hydraulic pressure. The resulting text is uniform in scale, but its legibility is unstable. Disrupted by shifts in color, contrast, and ground, the words hover between coherence and abstraction. As this body of work evolved across various scales and techniques, Bochner continued to pose the question of whether it is possible to read the text and see the painting simultaneously, and if the visual discordance could relieve the words from their objective meanings. Over time, he constructed a body of work that could mean nothing, something, or everything—an ongoing practice in contradiction and doubt.

05/16/2025

On View Now | Peter Dreher
7655 Girard

Tag um Tag Guter Tag #1638, 1998
Oil on linen
10 x 8 in

German artist Peter Dreher painted the same drinking glass every day from 1974-2014, amassing over 5,000 ten-inch by 8-inch paintings of a life-size water glass atop a table at different times of day. He titled the series “Tag um Tag Guter Tag,” a translation of the Zen Buddhist expression “Day by Day, Good Day.” With unwavering patience, his commitment to the repetition of this practice was both the same and deeply different every day: the minute details of light, shadow, and reflection could never be precisely the same. Working outside the dominant movements of his time, Dreher developed a singular practice grounded in realism, routine, and reverence for the ordinary.

Born in Mannheim, Germany in 1932, Dreher studied at the Kunstakademie Karlsruhe and later taught painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, Freiburg, to artists including Anselm Kiefer and Wolfgang Laib. Beginning in the 1990s, Dreher would visit San Diego periodically, forming an affinity with a place opposite from postwar Germany, as well as a longstanding relationship with Mark Quint and Quint Gallery. In addition to his daily water glass paintings and landscapes, he is also known for his Beachcomber Shores series, a set of 52 paintings depicting a panoramic view of the surfer motel room he requested Mark to put him up in during each visit to San Diego.

05/15/2025

Now on view at 7655 Girard (La Jolla)

David Ireland
Lament for Unbeaten Strings, 1989
steel, mirror, newspaper, aluminum, glass, metal clamp
50 1/4 x 26 1/4 x 27 in

David Ireland’s practice spanned sculpture, installation, drawing, and architectural interventions, often using everyday materials like plaster, dirt, string, or wood as the foundation for his process-based approach. As many of his assemblage works appear to materialize, Lament for Unbeaten Strings is an ambiguous sculpture that resists overt symbolism and meaning, and follows his principle that any object can be art if it is experienced as such.

In this sculpture, yellowing and crumpled balls of newspaper sit inside a red display box that has now developed a patina and rust from age. This mysterious setting is flanked by two mirrors attached to its larger armature, inevitably incorporating its current surroundings or viewer into the artwork’s existence.

Emerging from the Conceptualist movement that was growing in the Bay Area in the 1960s, with material influences from the Arte Povera style, he described his work in these terms: “I call myself a non-media installation artist. I prefer to explore without any end or purpose in sight, an active inquiry on an architectural scale. I just live my life and my art occurs in the process.” Ireland’s interest in site and installation culminated in 1975 when he purchased his house at 500 Capp Street in San Francisco and spent 30 years transforming it into a living work of sculpture, now preserved as a museum since his death in 2009.

05/10/2025

Opening Reception Tonight 6-8
Rebecca Horn .one

Artwork activation: 6:30-7

1955 Julian Avenue (Logan Heights)
alongside new shows opening at and

05/09/2025

Now on view at 7722 Girard

Roy McMakin: A Jeff Mitchell Vase, 2006
set of 6 Lambda type c-prints
18.75 x 14.25 in each frame
Edition of 15

Quint Gallery is pleased to present ‘A Jeff Mitchell Vase’ by Roy McMakin for ONE at 7722 Girard Avenue (La Jolla). In his photographic work, McMakin catalogs and preserves domestic objects with the same precision and sensitivity that defines his broader practice. At first glance, the six photographs may appear to be straightforward depictions. However, each image is in fact a digital composite, created through a meticulous process of photographing the object from a single angle nearly one hundred times. These images are then digitally stitched together to eliminate 3-point perspective and the optical distortion of the camera lens. The result is a photograph that seeks to represent the object as faithfully as possible—yet still reveals the labor-intensive process behind its creation.

05/03/2025

Closing Reception today from 4-6 at 7722 Girard.

image: Jean Lowe at home, photographed by

05/01/2025

This Saturday, please join us for a closing reception and final look at an important painting from Jean Lowe’s recent ‘Light & Space’ series.

Saturday May 3
4-6pm.
7722 Girard (La Jolla)

Jean Lowe
Untitled (Light & Space #4), 2023
casein on wood panel
72x216 in

04/22/2025

Now on view | 7655 Girard Avenue

Ryan McGinness
Signals Painting 5, 2016
acrylic on linen
84 x 60 in

McGinness’ process-based approach spans both the analog and the digital: the symbols that appear throughout the last two decades of his practice begin with original sketches he then converts into flattened vector files in order to reproduce the same image at any scale. These computer images are then used to create stencils for a screenprinting process he uses to compose the majority of his work. These original images, called “elements,” are part of his vast visual language and are the building blocks to almost all of his paintings. When they are combined or layered, their decontextualized forms build upon one other and form what he calls: ‘Units of Meaning’

Ryan McGinness (b. 1972, Virginia Beach, VA) has artwork in major permanent collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; New York Public Library, New York, NY; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Cincinnati Art Museum; MUSAC, Léon, Spain; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; The Albright-Knox Art Gallery; The Taguchi Art Collection, Tokyo; The Misumi Collection, Tokyo, Japan; and The Charles Saatchi Collection, among many others. McGinness lives and works in New York, New York.

04/17/2025

Now on view at 7722 Girard Avenue:
Jean Lowe | Untitled (Light and Space #4), 2023
casein on wood panel
72 x 216 in

To see this painting in person, please make an appointment. (Message us here or phone us at 858-454-3409)

is known for mining popular culture, consumerism, environmentalism, politics, and art history in her tongue-in-cheek installation, painting, and sculpture practice. In this work, she renders an 18’-wide panoramic view of the Concert Room in the Sanssouci Palace, Potsdam, Germany. Commissioned as a pleasure palace in 1745 by Frederick the Great, the extravagant music quarters are enveloped in gilded mirrors and ornate filigree, in addition to panels depicting mythology from Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’.

Lowe’s over-the-top approach upends the traditional hierarchies of contemporary artmaking and makes the case that movements as disparate as the Rococo and Light & Space may share some qualities related to the observer’s experience. In an art world that revels in the seriousness of the Light & Space, Lowe leans into the vanity and maximalism of its opposite while exploring the capacity of working with space and considering those who inhabit it.

02/26/2025

Catch Tom Driscoll: Configurations before it closes this Saturday, March 1! Pictured is ‘INQUIRIES’ the largest grouping of gypsum and powdered pigment sculptures in the exhibition.

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7655 Girard Avenue
San Diego, CA
92037

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Tuesday	11am - 5pm
Wednesday	11am - 5pm
Thursday	11am - 5pm
Friday	11am - 5pm
Saturday	11am - 5pm

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+18584543409

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https://www.quintgallery.com/

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