Getty Buys Their First Collection of Ed Ruscha photographs
As if the Getty weren’t busy enough with the massive Pacific Standard Time exhibit, they have just acquired a noteworthy and, surprisingly, their first collection of Ed Ruscha photographs and archives. The Getty Museum and Getty Research Institute teamed up to purchase 74 prints and two contact sheets from Gagosian Gallery and a second acquisition of Ruscha’s personal archive The Streets of Los Angeles including various photos and documents.
Ruscha’s personal archive includes a variety of photographs and documents that were used to create his landmark book Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966). With thousands of negatives and hundreds of contact sheets, the trove of Ruscha artifacts will add clarity and depth to the artist’s robust body of work as well as a broader view of the changing Los Angeles landscape of the last 40 years.
You’ll be able to get a peek at the Ruscha acquisition in the spring of 2013 when the Getty will hold two exhibitions of the Ruscha acquisition, Los Angeles Architecture: 1940–1990 and In focus: Ed Ruscha.
Edward Ruscha, Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas, 1962, from Twentysix Gasoline Stations, 1963. Gelatin silver print, 4 15/16 × 5 1/16 in. (12.5 × 12.9 cm)
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Pacific Standard Time: Celebrating Los Angeles Art
Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas (1963 ) by Ed Ruscha
“California is America, only more so.” Writer and Pulitzer Prize winner, Wallace Stegner, captured in that quote what the curators of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980 hope to capture in the largest collaborative project ever undertaken by museums in Southern California. Spearheaded by the Getty Research Institute, Pacific Standard is a full survey of the influence and finely carved style of the Los Angeles art scene from its post-war days to the end of the free love era. With over 60 institutions participating, the show is a curatorial feat showcasing works from L.A.’s major museums, galleries, cultural institutions, art schools and private collections.
Billy Al Bengston Polishing Painting, Venice, California (1962), photo by Marvin Silver
This sprawling exhibit of work is a powerful opportunity to highlight the West Coast genres, such as ceramics and Light and Space art, that Southern California brought to the forefront and were often overshadowed by New York’s popular and burgeoning movements of the moment including minimalism and abstract expressionism.
As expected the big guns will be exhibited including John Baldessari, Judy Chicago, Richard Diebenkorn, Betye Saar and David Hockney but one of the many jewels of PST is a chance to discover some lesser known artists who were essential to the landscape of L.A. art including shows focusing on the often underrepresented African American and Chicano artists.
Pacific Standard kicked is in progress and runs through April 2012. The exhibit includes over 60 shows and stretches from Santa Barbara to San Diego.
The Phrenologer's Window (1966) by Betye Saar
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Design Blogger Conference: Feb. 26-28, 2012 in LA
THE EVENT OF THE YEAR FOR INTERIOR DESIGN BLOGGERS
Join interior design bloggers, new media innovators, and interior design industry leaders for the second annual Design Bloggers Conference – the premier conference and experience for professionals actively using or interested in learning about new media and the interior design industry. This two-day conference builds on the exciting success of our inaugural conference in 2011, and brings you a unique opportunity to participate in the intersection of interior design with the world of new media including blogging, social media, and more. We invite all our fellow interior design bloggers to attend!
The conference will be held from February 26-28, 2012 at the historic Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. The premier choice for celebrities, presidents and dignitaries for over 85 years, the Millennium Biltmore Hotel offers historic grandeur and modern luxury in the heart of exciting downtown Los Angeles, just minutes away from Hollywood and Beverly Hills.
The Design Bloggers Conference is the only conference specifically focused on the interests of bloggers on interior design. Learn how to build a stellar personal brand for yourself, your blog, and your design career. Learn how to build and engage your audience with information and inspiration on multiple platforms, using a variety of business models and marketing channels. Meet potential advertisers, make critical connections, meet the icons of the design blogosphere and traditional media, and learn about exciting new products for 2012. Learn from the most accomplished bloggers, and network with your connections to your future.
The conference will include sessions on the following topics:
- Interior Design Trends in 2012
- Cashing in on Your New Online Footprint: Paths to Income and Careers
- Creating Inspirational Content – The Secrets of Professional Photographers
- BlogStars: Social Networking, Content, and The Future of Blogs
- The Impact of Social Media on Content Creation
- The Emerging Integration of Search and Social Media – Google+, Facebook, and Klout
- Building Your Brand: Grow Your Blog With Creative Video
- Curated Content: A New Business Model
- How to Build Traffic Through Facebook, Twitter, and Search
More info here: http://design-bloggers-conference.com/
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CAA 2012 Annual Conference: Feb. 22-25 in LA
February 22–25, 2012
College Art Assoc. Annual Conference
Los Angeles Convention Center
Registration is open!
The College Art Association (CAA) will head to the Golden State to celebrate the conclusion of its Centennial year at the 100th Annual Conference, taking place February 22–25, 2012, at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
As the preeminent international forum for the visual arts, the CAA conference brings together over 5,000 artists, art historians, students, educators, critics, curators, collectors, librarians, gallerists, and other professionals in the visual arts. The conference program features four days of presentations and panel discussions exploring art history and visual culture from ancient times to the present. It also offers an array of career development workshops, mentoring opportunities, and prospects for job interviews with colleges, universities, and museums, and more.
The Book and Trade Fair gathers more than 130 publishers of art books, journals, and magazines, manufacturers and distributors of materials for artists, providers of digital images and resources, among other companies and organizations. In addition, schools, museums, and galleries will host special events and exhibitions throughout southern California. Providing an arena for intellectual, aesthetic, and professional exchange, the Annual Conference helps fulfill CAA’s mission of promoting excellence in scholarship and practice, the freedom of expression, and inclusiveness.
Notable session titles include:
• “Pacific Standard Time and Chicano Art: A New Los Angeles Art History?”
• “Urbanization and Contemporary Art in Asia”
• “New Approaches to Post-Renaissance Florence, ca. 1600–1743”
• “Theory, Method, and the Future of Precolumbian Art”
• “Design Education 2.0: Teaching in a Techno-Cultural Reality”
• “Punk Rock and Contemporary Art on the West Coast”
• “Flying Solo: The Opportunities and Challenges Presented to the Solitary Art Historian in a Small
College”
More info here: http://conference.collegeart.org/2012/
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Keith Haring Retrospective in April 2012 at Brooklyn Museum
We are BIG Keith Haring fans here at the Studio. We had a Haring-palooza summer, reading his journals, his bio and watching this movie with great 80s footage. We were inspired by Haring’s response to the pain and panic of a sweeping epidemic and fascinated by his love and use of hieroglyphics. So we are anxiously whittling away the daylight hours until April 2012 when the comprehensive Keith Haring retrospective opens at the Brooklyn Museum.
The exhibit promises some never-before-seen pieces as well as a far flung spectrum of Haring mediums: (from the press release)
Included in Keith Haring: 1978-1982 are a number of very early works that had previously never before been seen in public, twenty-five red gouache works on paper of geometric forms assembled in various combinations to create patterns; seven video pieces, including his very first, Haring Paints Himself into a Corner, in which he paints to the music of the band Devo, and Tribute to Gloria Vanderbilt; and collages created from cut-up fragments of his own writing, history textbooks, and newspapers that closely relate to collage flyers he created with a Xerox machine.
Adding to the our impatience, the exhibit will focus on the beginning of Haring’s career just as he arrived in NYC to attend the School of Visual Arts. This is the period when Haring doused himself in the influences of urban life, graffiti and a new generation of young artists showcasing their work on the walls of a city.
The exhibition chronicles the period in Keith Haring’s career from the time he left his home in Pennsylvania and his arrival in New York City to attend the School of Visual Arts, through the years when he started his studio practice and began making public and political art on the city streets. Immersing himself in New York’s downtown culture, he quickly became a fixture on the artistic scene, befriending other artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Kenny Scharf, as well as many of the most innovative musicians, poets, performance artists, and writers of the period. Also explored in the exhibition is how these relationships played a critical role in Haring’s development as a facilitator of group exhibitions and performances and, as a creator of strategies for positioning his work directly in the public eye.
Keith Haring: 1978-1982: April 13 – August 5, 2012 at the Brooklyn Museum
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Gallery Picks: September 2011
Jack Whitten: Solo Show
September 7 – October 15, 2011
Alexander Gray Associates, NYC
Jack Whitten
Alexander Gray Associates is pleased to celebrate the Gallery’s fifth anniversary with a solo exhibition by Jack Whitten. This is Whitten’s third show with the Gallery, and it consists entirely of new work.
Anchoring the exhibition is the large scale painting, Apps for Obama (2011) crafted in Whitten’s signature method of “acrylic collage.” Spanning a spectrum of intense blues, shimmering like sky and water, the painting combines tesserae with cast forms of acrylic paint, each their own sculptural shapes and colors. A half-grid of floating forms, akin to an iPad home screen, structures Whitten’s metaphor of applications thereby implying multiple voices, choices and solutions to be harnessed in response to current political events.
Demonstrating Whitten’s ongoing experimentation between drawing and painting, eighteen associated works on paper are also on view. Densely soaked with color on Japanese paper, these drawings combine techniques of batik, monoprint, drawing and painting, resulting in a group of textural polychromed surfaces. Each small-scale work in the aptly titled Saturation series forms a larger impression through the use of bold color, layered marks and geometric forms.
Mark Whalen: Anomaly
September 10 – October 1, 2011
Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles
Mark Whalen
Kirk Hayes: New Paintings
September 10 – October 8, 2011
Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Kirk Hayes
Fort Worth based painter, Kirk Hayes will show a much anticipated series of trompe-l’oeil paintings that appear to be slap-dash collage on a wood-grain surface, though each is a painstakingly meticulous painting, the subjects of which explore the beauty and sorrow of human experience.
Kirk Hayes is a self-taught artist who has exhibited with Conduit Gallery since 1997. Since 2003 his paintings have been added to the museum collections of: The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas,TX; The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth,TX; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,TX; The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin,TX and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS.
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Gallery Picks: August 2011
The Shape of the Problem
30th Anniversary Exhibition
August 4 – 27, 2011
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Louise Bourgeois What is the Shape of This Problem?: The Small Hours 1999
“The Elizabeth Leach Gallery is thrilled to present our 30th Anniversary Exhibition. Launched in 1981, the gallery has focused on presenting prominent Northwest and internationally established artists working in a wide variety of contemporary media, bolstering a dynamic dialogue between the local community and the global art world. The Shape of the Problem aims to examine these relationships, as well as issues that have faced artists throughout the decades, from exploration of self-expression, to formal concerns, questions about identity, optimism, accumulation, exuberance, and deconstruction. This exhibition seeks connections between the past and the present. What do the artists of the 1950s and 60s have in common with the artists of today. What endures? What is the shape of this problem?”
Pointing a Telescope at the Sun
August 6 – September 17, 2011
Minus Space Gallery, NYC
Doug Ohlson, PU-011, 2004-2006 Acrylic on canvas 26 1/4 x 24 1/8 inches
“MINUS SPACE is pleased to present Pointing a Telescope at the Sun, a group exhibition highlighting abstract color painting by five highly-influential NYC-based artists: Gabriele Evertz, Vincent Longo, Doug Ohlson, Robert Swain, and Sanford Wurmfeld. The exhibition is dedicated to the memory of Doug Ohlson (1936-2010) who passed away last year at age 73.
- A core concern shared among these five artists is their pioneering investigation of color and its transformative effect on the viewer. Their strategies with color range from the exhaustively systematic to the intuitively poetic to the radiantly visceral. The exhibition will feature one recent painting by each artist.All five artists have also held decades-long associations with the renowned Art Department at Hunter College in New York City, one of the leading champions of color and abstraction – not to mention painting – among art schools in the United States. With more than 150 years of combined teaching experience at Hunter among them, these five artists have mentored countless generations of artists and have profoundly impacted the artistic discourse on the local, national, and international levels.”
Keith Walsh: Stealth Space
August 5- 28, 2011
Weekend Gallery, Los Angeles
Keith Walsh, Stealth Vehicle, Interior, 2011
“The Stealth Space exhibition engages the dialectic between the near and far, and what is mediated versus seen and experienced through the body. Stealth Space is about different perceptions of space and time mediated by the inhabitable Stealth Vehicle sculpture and its related two-dimensional work within the gallery context. The conceptual premise of the Stealth Vehicle sculpture is that any space existing beyond its own physical limits is deemed as ‘outer space’– hence positioning itself in relation to the sensibility of the gallery as a ‘non-site.’ The gallery, along with a participant’s engagement, acts as an instrument to facilitating connections to the beyond. Stealth Space is grounded in American secular progressivism of the 1960s, Marshall McLuhan’s sensibilities of mediated consciousness, and Space Age adventurism.”
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Gallery Picks: July 2011
It’s Hot Inside: group exhibition
July 7 – August 12, 2011
Jeff Bailey Gallery, NYC
It's Hot Inside: group exhibition at Jeff Bailey Gallery
Jeff Bailey Gallery is pleased to present “It’s Hot Inside”, a group exhibition focusing on strong color and lush surfaces. Domestic interiors, the figure, furniture and apparel/craft materials are depicted or combined in unusual ways. Participating artists are Evie Falci, Doron Langberg, Joshua Marsh, Jim Richard and Kevin Kunstadt + Shane Neufeld. Paintings, collage, assemblage and designed objects will be on view.
David Herbert and the Mystery of the Holy Mountain
July 5 – October 9, 2011
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
David Herbert and the Mystery of the Holy Mountain
Seattle native David Herbert utilizes everyday materials, including Styrofoam, PVC pipes, and Scotch Tape, to create eccentric sculptural installations of iconic subjects. During a two-week open studio at the Henry, Herbert will build a new installation specific the Puget Sound region. A recreation of Mount Rainer will sit atop of a rough skeletal framework modeled after the alien ship from the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
The House Without a Door: group exhibition
July 7- August 5, 2011
David Zwirner gallery, NYC
The House Without a Door at David Zwirner Gallery
David Zwirner is pleased to present The House Without the Door at the gallery’s 525 and 533 West 19th Street spaces. The exhibition includes works by Adel Abdessemed, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, David Altmejd, Francis Alÿs, Mamma Andersson, Louise Bourgeois, Michael Brown, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Maureen Gallace, Isa Genzken, Robert Gober, Mona Hatoum, Toba Khedoori, Charles LeDray, Thomas Ruff, Gregor Schneider, Luc Tuymans, Jeff Wall, and Rachel Whiteread.
Finding inspiration in Emily Dickinson’s poem “Doom is the House without the Door”, this exhibition considers the idea of the home as a charged psychological space. Frequently identified with her family’s home, where she produced much of her work, Dickinson has been described as an “eccentric recluse, wedded to her interiority.” Feminist scholar Diana Fuss has argued that for Dickinson “interiority was a complicated conceptual problem, continually posited and reexamined in a body of writing that relies heavily on spatial metaphors to advance its recurrent themes.” Similarly, the works in The House Without the Door are characterized by their ability to explore myriad issues related to interiority and domesticity—such as agoraphobia, self-imprisonment, domestic abuse, and memory—through understated yet compelling gestures.
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Artist of the Week: Robert Kingston
While recently swapping inspirational sources on a couple of shoddy hammocks, a few of us at the Studio started discussing the work of contemporary Los Angeles based artist Robert Kingston. At first, we couldn’t exactly pinpoint Read more…
