A committee of artists was appointed to develop a series of exhibitions for the new Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Committee members, Don Sorenson, Tim Nordin, Sherry Brody, Paul Dillon, Claude Kent, Nancy Kent, Maggie Noble, Robin Mitchell and Lita Albuquerque will act in consultation with Marcia Wiseman, chairperson of the Arts Council for the new Medical Center. Inagural exhibit for the program opens today, featuring works by Jerrold Burchman, Tom Leeson, Denise Gale, Paul Dillon, Max Cole, Stephanie Jackson, Karen, Carson and Gary Beydler, to run through August 15. The exhibitions will offer the hospital employees, visitors and patients,an opportunity to see cirrent work by contemporary Los Angeles artists as well as affording the artists a showcase to reach new audiences. The changing exhibitions are located on the street level of the South Wing and will complement the permanent art collection hung throughout the hospital. Address of the facility is 8700 Beverly Blvd.

William Wilson
Times Art Writer —Los Angeles Times,
May 16, 1976

Don Sorenson excited the scene when he dbuted last year with abstract paintings. The spirit of Jackson Pollack seemed reincarnated— and rejuvenated— in Sorenson's tense, energetic laminations of active paint and geometric zigzags. Now he shows new work in an unusual two gallery presentation. It sets one worrying. Fields of color ooze and spurt, shot through with those crazy linear bolts. Sorenson seems barely able to maintain the calculated detachement an artist needs half the time. He moves purposefully from subdues fiels of, say, black and shades of blue to exotically lush bouquets of half-tone hues. But within each composition is a bare containment of complexity that borders on chaos. The element most likely to cause anzious hyperventilation is the introduction of large geometric and other shapes woven into compositions. Several, for example, include a single large elliptical band that is so eccentric and ametuerish that it borders on a species of metaphysical kitsch. Well, the reason Sorenson was compelling to begin with was the risky quality of the pictures. Without that he'd be just another of the legion of polite, knowledgeable pros inhabiting vanguard turf. The two exhibitions still contain much excellent, energizing work and Sorenson remains the most mesmerizing cliff-hanger to appear in several seasons.

(Nicholas Wlder Gallery, 8225 1/2 Santa Monica Blvd., and Claire S. Copley Gallery, 918 N. La Cienga Blvd., to July 3)

William Wilson
Times Art Writer

—Los Angeles Times,
June 18, 1976

---

Don Sorenson's intense field abstraction takes risky turns in a two gallery exhibition that shows him still among the most mesmerizing artists to appear on this coast in several seasons at Nicholas Wlder Gallery, 8225 1/2 Santa Monica Blvd., and Claire S. Copley Gallery, 918 N. La Cienga Blvd., to July 3.

William Wilson
Times Art Writer

—Los Angeles Times,
June 25, 1976