Exhibitions
L.A. Raw, Abstract Expressionism in Los Angeles, 1945-1980, From Rico LeBrun to Paul McCarthy
L.A. RAW surveys the continuing presence of dark expressionistic work in Southern California, providing a fresh local heritage for the figurative art of today. The exhibition fills in a gap in knowledge about post World War II art, tracking figurative art through postwar existentialism, the Beat movement, 1960s politics, and 1970s feminism and performance -- the forces that lead to the explosion of body-oriented art in the 1980s.
Buried Doll, 1955
Oil on board
Collection of the Cameron Parsons Foundation
Dark Angel, 1955
Gouache on board
Collection of the Cameron Parsons Foundation
Peyote Drawing, 1957
Ink on paper
Collection of the Cameron Parsons Foundation
PACIFIC STANDARD TIME: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture 1950 - 1970
The exhibition leads viewers on a dynamic tour from the emergence of an indigenous strain of modernism evident in the hard-edge paintings, assemblage sculpture, and large-scale ceramics of the 1950s, to the subsequent development of iconic Pop images of the city in the 1960s, and the conceptual and material contributions of Light and Space art and process painting that fostered the advanced art of the 1970s.