Wallace Berman: A Retrospective

Berman, Wallace

Armory Center for the Arts

Since emerging as a young California artist in the late 1960s, John M. White has focused on performance art, installations, and drawing and painting. This exhibition catalog for a major retrospective combines the artist's creative actions (performances, installations and sculptures) with paintings and drawings related to the performances. In White's primarily autobiographical work, he mines his personal environment, resulting in intriguing visuals that hint at contained narratives. White has staged hundreds of public performances and his works are included in numerous collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum.

Lifelines: John M. White - A Retrospective Exhibition of Performance, Installation, Sculpture, Painting & Drawing

Betty Ann Brown

John M. White

Arts & Photography

An enthralling and historical look at the emergence of cutting-edge contemporary art in Southern California. Through the unwavering vision of a devoted few, the exploding Los Angeles art community of the 1960s was harnessed and internationally exposed. From Frank Stella paintings to Ed Keinholz installations and Duchamp to John Cage, Los Angeles was on fire and no one in the art world expected to find such a revolution in a place like this. Radical Past, takes a long overdue look at this pivotal period of art and music in Southern California while unearthing a collection painstakingly put together for the now defunct but once stellar Pasadena Art Museum. The Armory Center for the Arts and Art Center College of Design joined forces with curator Jay Belloli to bring this all encompassing exhibition and catalogue to fruition. More than 100 artist biographies, multiple essays and endless color reproductions are featured.

Radical Past - Contemporary Art & Music in Pasadena, 1960-1974

Belloli, Jay

Photography & Video

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Craig Kauffman: A Retrospective of Drawings (with DVD)

Kauffman, Craig

Internationally renowned installation performance artist Richard Jackson provided one of the more spectacular moments from the performance series sponsored by the Getty s Pacific Standard Time initiative. Re- enacting a piece from the 1970s, Jackson crashed a radio-controlled, 15 foot wingspan model airplane filled with paint into a 20 foot high wall emblazoned with the phrase accidents in abstract painting. Featuring dramatic photo images of the accident, the six hour set up, and the subsequent installation of its detritus at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, this unique exhibition catalog is an artifact of the event and its aftermath. Also included are a lengthy interview with Jackson and a QR code that links to further video documentation.

Richard Jackson

Irene Tsatsos (Ed.)

At only 64 pages, this catalog is small but the story it tells is huge: it documents the thirty-plus years that Robert Rauschenberg created prints and multiples at Gemini G.E.L., the world-famous print house in Los Angeles. From 1967 through 2001, working with Gemini owners Sidney Felsen and Stanley Grinstein,Rauschenberg pushed the boundaries of printmaking like no other contemporaryartist before or since. All of Rauschenberg s most celebrated Gemini G.E.L. prints, print series and multiples such as Booster, the artist s famous X-ray self-portrait are illustrated in this essential volume. Also included are prints using his photographs of Los Angeles, multiples created in France, India, China, and from his travels with the Rauschenberg Overseas Cultural Interchange, as well as works created for political or environmental causes including the first Earth Day in 1970. In addition, photographs of the artist working at Gemini are reproduced.Includes an extensive essay by curator Jay Belloli.

Rauschenberg at Gemini

Biographies & Memoirs

Robert Rauschenberg

Arts & Literature

Southern California artist Steve Roden is known as more than a painter; his internationally acclaimed, multi-media sound-driven works use musical scores that offer him a set of options to compose a segment of painting, sculpture, or other formal composition. This template results in a startlingly diverse array of images, objects, sounds and spaces. Roden's every artwork, whatever its form, is both familiar yet utterly unexpected. He's an eccentric virtuoso whose paintings look abstract, but only in the way that a chair, a tree, a face or even a Pop-Tart becomes abstract the longer you look at it. This catalog of a 20-year mid-career survey of Roden's work includes an illustrated essay by curator Howard N. Fox and a CD with the four soundtracks from Roden installations.

Steve Roden: In Between

Howard N. Fox

STEVE RODEN

In Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s, Wallace Berman, founder of the influential artist journal Semina, and Robert Heinecken, who established UCLA's photography department, were kindred spirits. Both reveled in appropriating and juxtaposing images and text, using as a point of departure the art of the historical avant-garde, updating its subjects, techniques, and irreverent stance for contemporary use. This catalog in the form of a treasure box brings Berman and Heinecken together for the first time. It is packed with images, reproductions, ephemera, a DVD and essays that capture the random spirit of innovation that permeated this important era in Southern California. These two artists bridged modernist and emerging post-modernist trends, ushering in the use of photography as a key element of the contemporary avant-garde art.

Speaking in Tongues: The Art of Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken

Claudia Bohn-Spector

Robert Heinecken

Wallace Berman

Sam Mellon

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