American b. 1950

Gary Lang is recognized as one of the most distinguished artists in Western Contemporary Art, and no account of recent art history would be complete without mention of his iconic concentric circle paintings. To connect his work contextually to that of modern colorists such as Josef Albers and Frank Stella seems only logical; however, Lang’s methodology can be better understood when compared to that of a classical painter. His physical act of painting requires intense focus on the interaction between brush, hand, paint and canvas. This level of concentration compels Lang to be “hyper-present” with his works—an element that translates from artist to viewer. The artistic evolution of Gary Lang, from 1975 to today, has been an investigation into the dynamics of visual consciousness articulated through his demanding paintings.

Lang's prominent collections include:

Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, CA American Embassy in Algiers

Algeria American Embassy in Paris, France Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
Cedars Sinai Hospital-Marcia and Simon Weisman Collection, Los Angeles, CA Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Frederick Weisman Foundation, Beverly Hills, CA
Gemeentemuseum den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
The Gores Group, Beverly Hills, CA
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
The Maslow Collection, Wilkes-Barre, PA
Meadowbrook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI
Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, Chicago, IL
Museum of Art Contemporain, Angers, France
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Museum of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
MOAH – Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, CA
Plains Art Museum, Moorehead, MN
Pomona Museum of Art, Pomona, CA
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Riverside Museum of Art, Riverside, CA
Stein & Company, Chicago, IL
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, Utah Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Beverly Hills, CA

A.T. & T., Somerset, NJ

AXA Art, Koln, Germany

City Redevelopment Agency, Los Angeles, CA The Gores Group, Beverly Hills, CA Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, CA
IBM Corporation, Somers, NY

Nordstern, Cologne, Germany

Paine Webber, New York, NY
Qualcomm, San Diego, CA
Rayovac, Madison, WI
Stein & Company, Chicago, IL
Thompson Publishing Group, New York, NY Tuttle & Taylor, Los Angeles, CA