09/01/2026
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art is delighted to present a group exhibition of work by three artists "Still Friends After All These Years: Charles Arnoldi, Ron Cooper, Laddie John Dill." The show will run from September 11th to October 10th, with an Opening Reception with the Artists on Friday, September 11th from 5-7 p.m. On Saturday, September 12th from 2-4 p.m. there will be a Gallery Talk: "A Conversation with Charles Arnoldi, Ron Cooper, Laddie John Dill and Rani Singh."
The colors sink deep into you. The heat of a gouache red. The radiant blue glow of light in a glass tube. The shimmering gold of pearlescent pigment on Plexiglas. The forms and formats as distinct as the techniques. Yet these works of art, large and small, all somehow find their way inside the viewer - shifting, shaping, answering questions we hadn't thought to ask.
These works are by three renowned artists who emerged out of the California Light and Space movement of the early 1970's whom Charlotte Jackson met and showed decades ago. As she notes: "In 1987, I curated an exhibition featuring three artists: Charles Arnoldi, Ron Cooper, and Laddie John Dill. Thirty-nine years later, all three are still making art—and still friends. I had forgotten about the 1987 exhibition until Ron Cooper’s registrar found the catalog and sent it to me. That discovery immediately inspired me to bring the three artists together again."
By the time of that 1987 show, the three artists had already known each other for about twenty years, having met somewhere between the halls of Chouinard Art Institute and the industrial warehouses and artist lofts of Los Angeles in the 1960's. Each skilled, hungry, and with a restless energy that helped to propel them headlong onto the world stage as rare artistic talents. "Still Friends After All These Years" once again brings together works, old and new, from all three luminaries, whose art engages and challenges the perceptual experience of viewers.
Click through to read the full press release by Michaela Kahn, Ph.D.:
https://charlottejacksonfineart.tumblr.com/post/826499907063087104/still-friends-after-all-these-years-charles
Image: Poker Game, 1970 (left to right: Charles Arnoldi, Laddie John Dill, Ron Cooper)
Photo credit: Larry Bell
