The Cosmic View
Matthew Marks Gallery•Jun 27, 2026 — Aug 15, 2026
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Matthew Marks is pleased to announce Jordan Belson: The Cosmic View, the next exhibition in his galleries at 1062 North Orange Grove and 7818 Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles. The exhibition includes thirty-one works made between 1950 and 1970.
Jordan Belson (1926–2011) was a seminal figure in twentieth-century avant-garde cinema renowned for his experimental films, in which he explored a profound consciousness and engagement with the observable world through esoteric mystical abstractions. Belson began his career as a painter, exhibiting his work at SFMOMA and the Guggenheim Museum in the late 1940s, and although he continued to make paintings and drawings for the remainder of his life, after 1950 he focused on filmmaking and never exhibited this part of his work again during his lifetime.
The works in the exhibition demonstrate Belson’s extraordinary technical control of color and light, the fundamental elements of his filmmaking. Many of his fastidious compositions, including…
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The Cosmic View
Matthew Marks Gallery•Jun 27, 2026 — Aug 15, 2026
Press Release
Matthew Marks is pleased to announce Jordan Belson: The Cosmic View, the next exhibition in his galleries at 1062 North Orange Grove and 7818 Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles. The exhibition includes thirty-one works made between 1950 and 1970.
Jordan Belson (1926–2011) was a seminal figure in twentieth-century avant-garde cinema renowned for his experimental films, in which he explored a profound consciousness and engagement with the observable world through esoteric mystical abstractions. Belson began his career as a painter, exhibiting his work at SFMOMA and the Guggenheim Museum in the late 1940s, and although he continued to make paintings and drawings for the remainder of his life, after 1950 he focused on filmmaking and never exhibited this part of his work again during his lifetime.
The works in the exhibition demonstrate Belson’s extraordinary technical control of color and light, the fundamental elements of his filmmaking. Many of his fastidious compositions, including…
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