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Donald Sorenson

Donald Sorenson (1948 - 1985) was active/lived in California.  Donald Sorenson is known for Geometric abstract painting.

Following is a Los Angeles Times Art Review by Suzanne Muchnic, May 13, 1986

A Revelation Of Sorenson And Might-have-been

Some artists never get off the ground, some soar and fade away, while others are cut down so abruptly that we never know what they might have done. Don Sorenson was an artist of the third kind.

He died last year at 36, a victim of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and in the throes of an aesthetic upheaval. He had won the County Museum of Art's Young Talent Purchase Award in 1984 (with Gifford Myers), certainly a prestigious vote of confidence from the Establishment, but his last exhibition in Los Angeles, at the Roy Boyd Gallery in 1982, presented him in a state of turmoil.

Sorenson had abandoned his trademark abstractions--dynamic fields of zigzags interwoven with diagonal grids--and joined the fashionable parade of Neo-Expressionists and Post-Modern pastiche artists. Change was probably overdue, but Sorenson seemed to h   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1467 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Donald Sorenson

   Donald Sorenson  Born:  1948 - Glendale, California
Died:   1985
Known for:  Geometric abstract painting

Following is a Los Angeles Times Art Review by Suzanne Muchnic, May 13, 1986

A Revelation Of Sorenson And Might-have-been

Some artists never get off the ground, some soar and fade away, while others are cut down so abruptly that we never know what they might have done. Don Sorenson was an artist of the third kind.

He died last year at 36, a victim of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and in the throes of an aesthetic upheaval. He had won the County Museum of Art's Young Talent Purchase Award in 1984 (with Gifford Myers), certainly a prestigious vote of confidence from the Establishment, but his last exhibition in Los Angeles, at the Roy Boyd Gallery in 1982, presented him in a state of turmoil.

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