VONN SUMNER

Review of Vonn Sumner: The Other Side of Here, at the Riverside Art Museum, in the October 23-29th, 2008 issue of the Inland Empire Weekly. 

Catalogue for the solo exhibition Vonn Sumner: The Other Side of Here at the Riverside Art Museum in 2008. Includes essays by Simon Herbert and Peter Frank, forward by museum director Daniel Foster, and an interview of the artist with writer/director Christopher Monger.  Copies are for sale at the museum and at Warwick Books in Pasadena. 

Exhibition catalogue for Twenty-Five Treasures held at the Paul Thiebaud Gallery in the Fall of 2008.  Sumner's painting I'll Take Your Silent Stares as a Yes was included in the show that also included work by Wayne Thiebaud, Edward Hopper, Henri Matisse, J.A.D. Ingres, Giorgio Morandi and Frank Auerbach among others. Copies available at the Paul Thiebaud Gallery in San Francisco. 

Artist Profile in the March 2007 issue of Art Ltd. magazine. 

Sumner's painting "Triumvirate" is featured in an article about art collector Beth Rudin DeWoody in the March 2007 issue of Elle Decor magazine.

Feature article with interview in the Turkish magazine Trendsetter (n.46, vol.4, 2006).

Cover artist for 9th issue of Quick Fiction periodical, April 2006.

Catalogue for the 2006 exhibition at the downtown Los Angeles gallery Pharmaka, a show that also included Ed Ruscha, Don Bachardy, Kim McCarty and others.  Essay by the artist and curator Shane Guffogg.

Article about the burgeoning art scene in downtown L.A. in June/July 2005 issue of Lifescapes magazine features Sumner and his painting "Land of the Tree People."

L.A. Weekly Pick of the Week.

Boom magazine, Spring 2004, features Sumner's painting "Watcher" on the cover, along with an article inside about the L.A. artist collective called Pharmaka.

NY Arts magazine artist profile, November/December 2003.

New American Paintings #43, Pacific Coast edition, 2002, features Sumner's work as well as other L.A. area painters Joseph Biel, Phil Bower, and Gina Han.