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• Abstract Expressionism

  Anfam, David

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• Abstract Expressionism

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• Charles Arnoldi

  Arnoldi, Charles, 1946-

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  Featured in our show: Charles Arnoldi has become a popular California artist best known for his brightly-colored, abstract paintings that incorporate the use of wood as an expressive medium, often using tree branches and twigs. In the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ed Moses

  Moses, Ed, 1926-

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  Featured in our show: Considered one of the foremost postwar abstract painters in the Southern California scene, working alongside a generation of artists known as the “cool school,” Ed Moses has been engaged in what he sees as a continual…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Billy Al Bengston

  Dentos

  Bengston, Billy Al,

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  Featured in our show: Born in Dodge City, Kansas, Billy Al Bengston became a part of the 1960s California Pop-Art movement and pioneered the use of industrial and spray paint techniques in his fine art painting. He combined this method…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Perpetual Motion

  Karen Carson, Margaret Nielsen, John Rogers, Tom Wudl : Santa Barbara Museum of Art, November 17, 1987-January 24, 1988

  Turnbull, Betty, 1924-

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  Featured in our show: Margaret Nielsen’s body of art which spans over 50 years, incorporates a multitude of mediums such as oil painting, pencil drawing, porcelain, mosaic, public space projects and tattoo engravings that recount these…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Iva Gueorguieva

  Gueorguieva, Iva, 1974-

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  Featured in our show: Iva Gueorguieva (b.1974) is known for her complex, abstract, large scale paintings that feature a frenetic mix of overlapping collage, line, shape, and color. Influenced by the materialism of Art Povera, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sharon Ryan

  1998 : Claremont Graduate University Peggy Phelps Gallery, Remba Gallery

  Ryan, Sharon

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  Featured in our show: Based in Los Angeles and known for Abstract and botanical painting. Ryan shows us a visual symphony of the Unseen, the Inside Out, and the parts that go Unrecognized. "With this body of work I wanted to take the time…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Steve Roden

  in Between : a 20 Year Survey

  Roden, Steve, 1964-

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  Featured in our show: Steve Roden is a visual and sound artist from Los Angeles, living in Pasadena. His work includes painting, drawing, sculpture, film/video, text, sound and performance—generally exploring ideas related to translation,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Practice and Process

  New Painterly Abstraction in California

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  Kim Anno, Elizabeth Chandler, Lavi Daniel, Gregory Wiley Edwards, Charles Fine, Thekla Hammond, Hyesook, Marie Thibeault, Alan Treister, John Zurier. Featured in our show: Marie Thibeault’s large-scale oil paintings address the tension of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Catastrophe According to Hans Burkhardt

  Burkhardt, Hans Gustav, 1904-1994-

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  Hans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American artist who immigrated to New York in 1924. He studied at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky, a pivotal artist in the transition from Surrealism to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cool School

  How LA Learned to Love Modern Art

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  How do you build an art scene from scratch — and not lose your soul in the process? The Cool School is the story of the Ferus Gallery, which nurtured Los Angeles’s first significant post-war artists between 1957 and 1966. In late 1956,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Primary Atmospheres

  Works From California 1960-1970

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  Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, Laddie John Dill, Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman, John McCracken, Helen Pashgian, James Turrell, De Wain Valentine, Doug Wheeler Featured in our show: Laddie John Dill, a Los Angeles artist, had his first solo…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Painters Painting

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  (1972) This documentary covers the New York School--a group of artists working in the 1940s and 50s in abstract expressionism--through the pop art movement. Artists featured in the film include Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, Frank Stella,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 100 Painters of Tomorrow

  Beers, Kurt,

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  Includes the work of Tomory Dodge

• Painting Abstraction

  New Elements in Abstract Painting

  Nickas, Robert

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  Includes the work of Tomory Dodge

• Action/Abstraction Redefined

  Modern Native Art, 1940s to 1970s

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  The artists in this exhibition challenged stereotypical expectations of Indian art by experimenting with American modern art movements such as Abstract Expressionism, Color Field and Hard-edge Painting combined with art influences from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Irascibles

  Painters Against the Museum, New York,1950

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  The Irascibles or Irascible 18 were the labels given to a group of American abstract artists who signed an open letter, written in 1950, to the president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, rejecting the museum's exhibition American…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Variations II

  Seven Los Angeles Painters : An Exhibition

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  Curator and essayist: Constance Mallinson. Artists: Roy Dowell, Kim Hubbard, David Lawson, William Mahan, Janet McCloud, Richard Sedivy and Hye Sook

• Pollock

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