Lawrence Kushner
Illuminations
February 18 – March 17, 2024
“I am primarily interested in calling attention to the extraordinary, even dazzling, beauty sealed in ‘ordinary’ places. I try not to name the things I see but to focus instead on portraying patterns of light. For me, the experience of light and beauty is a primal spiritual event.”
– Lawrence Kushner
Larry Kushner is a dedicated painter with thirteen years of experience. He has studied with Bay Area luminaries Ezra Katz, Sandy Ostrau, and Verakeet Tongpaiboon. An ordained rabbi, Kushner has authored over a dozen books on spirituality and Kabbalah and currently serves as the Scholar-in-Residence at Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco.
Lawrence Kushner #604 – Telegraph Hill Sunset #3 – oil on linen 40×30 Inquire
Lawrence Kushner #302 – 1150 Union #2 oil on linen panel 9×12 $900
Lawrence Kushner #410 – Fort Mason #3 – oil on linen panel 9×12 Inquire
Lawrence Kushner #469 – Palm Desert #2 – oil on linen 18×24 $1800
Lawrence Kushner #482 – Behind the Hyde Street Cable Car #2 – oil on linen 18×24 SOLD
Lawrence Kushner #500 – Devil’s Slide – oil on linen 18×24 $1800
Lawrence Kushner #538 – Red Valerian at Sterling Park – oil on linen 18×24 $1800
Lawrence Kushner #562 – The Cliffs off Battery Mendell – oil on linen 18×24 $1800
Lawrence Kushner #568 – Octagon House – oil on linen panel 9×12 $900
Lawrence Kushner #581 – Plum Trees on Green – oil on linen panel 9×12 $900
Lawrence Kushner #326 – The Balclutha – oil on canvas 18×24 Inquire
Lawrence Kushner #593 – The Tower – oil on linen 30×40 Inquire
Lawrence Kushner #435 – Pier 35 – oil on linen 18″x24″ Inquire
Lawrence Kushner #504 – Point Bonita View – oil on linen 18×24 Inquire
Lawrence Kushner #477 – Point Bonita Light – oil on linen 18×24 Inquire
Lawrence Kushner #545 – The Approach – oil on linen 30×40 Inquire
Lawrence Kushner #600 – Lombard Light – oil on linen 40×30 SOLD
Lawrence Kushner #606 – Yellow Hill – oil on linen 24×18 SOLD
Lawrence Kushner #607 – Trees on Taylor – oil on linen 40×30 SOLD
Lawrence Kushner #612 – Top of Greenwich – oil on linen 30×40 Inquire
Lawrence Kushner #253 – Emanu-El – oil on canvas 9×12 SOLD
Lawrence Kushner #481 – South on One – oil on linen 18×24 SOLD
Lawrence Kushner #498 – Mount Diablo – oil on linen 18×24 SOLD
Lawrence Kushner #530 – Spring Pruning – oil on linen panel 9×12 SOLD
Lawrence Kushner #537 – Sausalito Sunset – oil on linen 18×24 SOLD
Lawrence Kushner #563 – Fort Point from Point Bonita – oil on linen 18×24 SOLD
Lawrence Kushner #304 – Autumn Where There is None – oil on linen panel 9×12 SOLD
Lawrence Kushner #436 – Cafe Zoetrope – oil on linen 18×24 SOLD
Lawrence Kushner #614 – Point Bonita Calm – oil on linen 18×24 SOLD
Lawrence Kushner #621 – Sunset on Pine #2 – oil on linen 18×24 SOLD
BIO
Lawrence Kushner was born in Detroit in 1943. He began painting in 2011. An ordained rabbi, Kushner has authored over a dozen books on spirituality and Kabbalah and currently serves as the Scholar-in-Residence at Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco.
Kushner studied with such renowned artists Ezra Katz, Sandy Ostrau, and Verakeet Tongpaiboon.
His work has been exhibited in galleries in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to regional exhibitions, Kushner’s work hangs in the collection of the Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University and has also been juried into the California Art Club’s premiere 110th, 111th and 112th Gold Medal Exhibitions (2021, 2022, 2023) in Los Angeles. He works exclusively in oils.
He and his wife have three married children and six grandchildren. He lives on Russian Hill in San Francisco where every evening the light is pure magic.
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Exhibitions / Awards
Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA, group show, Baseball, 2013
Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA, group shows, Tiny, 2013; 2015; 2016; 2017
Isaacs Gallery, Osher-Marin Jewish Community Center, San Rafael, CA, solo show, Street Light, 2013
Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA, group shows, City Streets, September, 2014; August, 2017
Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA, group show, May, 2017
Foyer Gallery, Congregation Emanu-El, San Francisco, CA, solo show, 2016
Slate Gallery, Oakland, CA at the San Ramon Valley Conference Center, featured artist, Urbanism, 2017
Isaacs Gallery, Osher-Marin Jewish Community Center, San Rafael, CA, solo show, Painting the Light Fantastic, 2018
Peninsula Art Museum, Burlingame, CA, juried group show, California Art Club, Art between the Lines, 2018
Sanctuary Gallery, St. Cyprian’s Church, San Francisco, CA, group show, By Your Light, 2018
Slate Gallery, Oakland, CA at 101 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA, group show, San Francisco Views, 2018
Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, Pacific Grove, CA, juried group show, Magnificent Migrations, California Art Club, 2019
Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA, juried group show, City by the Bay,
California Art Club, City by the Bay, 2019
Cathy Baum & Associates, Menlo Park, CA, at One Post Street, San Francisco, solo show, CityLights: The Urban Impressionism of Lawrence Kushner, 2019
Harrington Gallery at the Firehouse Arts Center, Pleasanton, CA, juried group show, Bay Area Parks, California Art Club, 2019
Corison Gallery, Tahoe City, CA, North Tahoe Arts Plein Air Open, Honorable Mention, 2019
Juried Virtual on-line Exhibition, Our World Reimagined, California Art Club, 2020
Juried Virtual on-line Exhibition, Welcome to California, California Art Club, 2020
Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University, Orange, CA, permanent collection
California Art Club’s 110th Gold Medal Exhibition, 2021
Curated by the Sea Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA, Juried group show, Iconic California, California Art Club, 2022
Juried into Virtual on-line Exhibition, Lazy Days of Summer, California Art Club, 2023
Juried into Virtual on-line Exhibition, 111th Gold Medal auxiliary Exhibition, California Art Club, 2023
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