LOS ANGELES, CA- The first major U.S. solo exhibition of paintings by London-based artist Tomma Abts (born Kiel, Germany, 1967)  at the Hammer Museum. The exhibition originated at the New Museum in New York and is organized by Laura Hoptman, Kraus Family Senior Curator. The exhibition includes roughly fifteen paintings created over the past ten years, as well as a selection of colored pencil drawings. Abts’ works might be modest in size—18 7/8 by 15 inches (48 x 38 cm), but actually they are extremely ambitious undertakings. On view through 9th November, 2008.