Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry, one of the most influential architects of the late twentieth century, fundamentally reshaped the discipline by expanding what buildings could look like, how they could be experienced, and how they could be engineered. He founded his Los Angeles firm in 1962 after studying at USC and briefly at Harvard, and early collaborations with Venice Beach and Santa Monica artists helped shape his experimental sensibility. Gehry first drew attention with his Easy Edges cardboard furniture, but the radical redesign of his Santa Monica house (1978–88) established his signature use of everyday materials and fragmented forms. His 1980s projects—spotlighted in MoMA’s Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition—led to major commissions including the Vitra Design Museum and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. By the 1990s, he embraced increasingly complex curvilinear structures, most famously realized in the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (1997), developed through a dialogue between freehand sketches and emerging digital modeling. Gehry is represented by Gagosian Gallery in New York.

Ruminations, Fish Lamp sculpture, Polyvinyl, stainless steel wire, LED lights, ColorCore formica and silicone

Ruminations, Fish Lamp sculpture, Polyvinyl, stainless steel wire, LED lights, ColorCore formica and silicone, pen and watercolor on paper

Ruminations, Fish Lamp sculpture, Polyvinyl, stainless steel wire, LED lights, ColorCore formica and silicone

Ruminations, pen and watercolor on paper

Ruminations, Crocodile Lamp sculpture, Polyvinyl, stainless steel wire, LED lights, ColorCore formica and silicone

Ruminations, 2024, pen and watercolor on paper

Fish Lamps, 2014, Polyvinyl, stainless steel wire, LED lights, ColorCore formica and silicone

The Mad Hatter's Tea Party or Wishful Thinking, A mixed-media installation, 2021, Gagosian, Beverly Hills

Torque Vase for Tiffany & Co., made of porcelain, the design is a signature Gehry style, featuring a sculptural, twisted form that reflects his architectural approach.

Memory of Sophie Calle's Flower, 2012, made of resin and placed on a wooden base

Gehry Matterhorn Vase, Tiffany & Co., White Bone China, matte finish, Produced in Ireland, 2005

A sketch of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, it features sweeping, curvilinear forms clad in titanium panels and a glass atrium.

A sketch of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, known for its groundbreaking deconstructivist style.

A sketch of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the titanium cladding was chosen for its durability, resistance to corrosion, and its ability to reflect light dynamically,

Wooden architectural model, deconstructivist style

Cleveland Clinic, Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas, Nevada

Architectural model of the Marqués de Riscal Hotel, Elciego, Spain

Beekman Tower, 8 Spruce Street, Manhattan, New York City

A proposed residential tower for Berlin site on Alexanderplatz in the central Mitte district

A rendering of the Forma Towers residential complex in Toronto, Canada

The Grand Avenue Project, 2012, Bunker Hill, LA, Ca

The Louis Vuitton Foundation, 2014, 8 Avenue du Mahatma-Gandhi, 16th arrondissement of Paris, France

Opus Hong Kong, 12-storey, residential high-rise completed in 2012, 53 Stubbs Road, Hong Kong

The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, under construction in the Saadiyat Island cultural district in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, built 1993, University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis, Minnesota

The LUMA Arles Tower, built 2021, located on the Arles art campus, France

The Walt Disney Concert Hall, 2003, 111 South Grand Avenue, L. A. Ca

The Guggenheim Museum, 1997, Bilbao, Spain

Easy Edges, Wiggle Chair, Wiggle Stool, Lounge Chair & Ottoman, 1972

Easy Edges, Three Nesting Chairs, Nesting Tables, R barstools, 1972

Easy Edges, Coffee Table, Rocking Chair, Dining Chairs, 1972

Easy Edges, Stackable Shelves, 1972

Easy Edges, Console Table, Dining Set, 1972

Easy Edges, Dining Set, Coffee Table, 1972

Frank Gehry at Gemini, sketch in black ink on orange paper that-inspired the design of the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain, 2009

Memory of Sophie Calle's Flower, cast urethane, birch plywood, and lacquered wood, 2012

Puzzled, (Black State) 1-color lithograph, Edition of 22

Puzzled, 2-color lithograph, Edition of 35

Duchess, 2022, Multi-color screenprint/collage with portrait by Alejandro Gehry, mounted to museum board

Hatter, 2022, Multi-color screenprint/collage with gold leaf, mounted to museum board

Duke, 2022, Multi-color screenprint/collage mounted to museum board

King, 2022, Multi-color screenprint/collage with gold leaf and portrait by Alejandro Gehry, mounted to museum board

Rabbit, 2022, Multi-color screenprint/collage with silver leaf and portrait by Alejandro Gehry, mounted to museum board

Alice, 2022, Multi-color screenprint/collage with copper and silver leaf and portrait by Alejandro Gehry, mounted to museum board

Queen, 2022, Multi-color screenprint/collage with gold and silver leaf and portrait by Alejandro Gehry, mounted to museum board

Cards, 2022, Four multi-color screenprinted elements with silver leaf, collaged to museum board

Table, 2022, Multi-color screenprint/collage with silver leaf, mounted to museum boardh

Michael Heizer

Michael Heizer’s work investigates positive and negative space through monumental earthworks, paintings, and drawings that use extreme scale to evoke the sublime. Early exposure to archaeology shaped his lifelong engagement with ancient sites and landscape. After leaving art school in the mid‑1960s, he developed “negative paintings” and soon began carving directly into the land, most notably Double Negative (1969). In the 1970s he acquired remote desert land and began City (1970–), a vast complex inspired by Indigenous mound building and pre‑Columbian ceremonial architecture. Alongside this project, he has produced shaped canvases, “negative wall sculptures,” and major public works such as Levitated Mass (2012). His later Altar series (2015) draws on global pictographic traditions. Across his practice, Heizer merges ancient imagery with monumental form to create works conceived to endure across generations. Michael Heizer is represented by Gagosian Gallery, New York City

Public unveiling in 2012, of Michael Heizer's "Levitated Mass" sculpture, a 340-ton granite boulder at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA, (Picture taken early before crowds appeared to show the depth of the trench)

The 340-ton boulder is placed above a 456 foot viewing pathway, the boulder is bolted to two shelves affixed to the inner walls of the trench,

which descends from ground level to 15 feet (4.5 m) below the stone at its center, allowing visitors to stand directly below the megalith

The sculpture is identified as either "Potato Chip" or "Asteroid" an 18- ton, suspended granite boulder set within a rectangular aperture cut into a wall,

The sculpture Negative Megalith #5 (1998), It is a large, gray-brown rock embedded within a rectangular cutout in a white wall.

Black Diorite Negative Wall Sculpture, 1992, 5.7-ton black diorite in steel frame,

The sculpture is Biface Perforator #3 by artist Michael Heizer, Biface Perforator #3 is a colossal replica of an prehistoric ancient tool, Created in 1988, the artwork is made of modified concrete and steel, and measures approximately 57 x 104 x 24 inches