L.A. Rising : SoCal Artists Before 1980

Lyn Kienholz, Elizabeta Betinski, Corinne Nelson, Clinton Adams, Ron Adams, Bas Jan Ader, John Alberty, Lita Albuquerque, Anders Aldrin, Peter Alexander, Martha Alf, Neda Al-Hilali, Carlos Almaraz, John Altoon, Mabel Alvarez, Arthur Ames, Jean Goodwin Ames, Laura Anderson, Oliver Andrews, Eleanor Antin, Craig Antrim, Chuck Arnoldi, Michael Asher, David Askevold, Walter Askin, Ralph Bacerra, Don Bachardy, Jo Baer, Herman Kofi Bailey, George P. Baker, Michael Balog, John Baldessari, Jack Barth, Richmond Barthé, Joel Bass, Lynn Bassler, Robert C. Bassler, Wall Batterton, Herbert Bayer, Phoebe Beasley, Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, Karl Benjamin, Ed Bereal, Pat Berger, Tony Berlant, Ben Berlin, Eugene Berman, Wallace Berman, John Bernhardt, Gary Beydler, Edward Biberman, Natalie Bieser, Les Biller, Annette Bird, Streeter Blair, Sandy Bleifer, Bob and Bob, Gloria Cole Bohanen, Douglas Bond, Dorr Bothwell, David Bradford, Rex Brandt, Jerry Brane, Bettina Brendel, Michael Brewster, William Brice, Nicholas Brigante, Morris Broderson, William Theophilus Brown, Nancy Buchanan, Conrad Buff II, David Bungay, Jerry Burchfield, Jerrold Burchman, Chris Burden, Hans Burkhardt, Nathaniel Bustion, JoAnne Callis, Cameron, Greg S. Card, Elaine Carhartt, Harry Carmean, Jae Carmichael, Carol Caroompas, Barbara Carrasco, Eduardo Carrillo, Karen Carson , Bernie Casey, Elizabeth Catlett, Vija Celmins, Roberto Chavez, Carl Cheng, Judy Chicago, Grace Clements, Caron Colvin, Dan Concholar, Houston Conwill, Ron Cooper, Sister Mary Corita, Philip Cornelius, Mary Corse, Eileen Cowin, Robert Cremean, James L. Croak, Keith Crown, William Crutchfield, Robert Cumming, Darryl Curran, Dorit Cypis, Dan Cytron, Edie Danieli, Avery Danziger, Lowell Darling, Paul Darrow, Alonzo Davis, Dale B. Davis, Michael Davis, Ronald Davis, Woods Davy, Guy De Cointet, Francis de Erdely, Rupert Deese, Tony DeLap, Diane Destiny, Boris Deutsch, Charles Dickson, Richard Diebenkorn, Dietrich, Phil Dike, Guy Dill, Laddie John Dill, Paul Dillon, Morton Dimondstein, Sue Dirksen, John Divola, William Dole, James Doolin, Daniel Douke, Robert Dowd, Roy Dowell, Laurence Dreiband, Hildegarde Duane, Tom Eatherton, Bruce Edelstein, Jean Edelstein, Doug Edge, Leonard Edmondson, Melvin Edwards, Jules Engel, Marion Epting, Sam Erenberg, Merion Estes, Ned Evans, Bruce Everett, Fredericl Eversley, Connor Everts, Edgar Ewing, Martin Facey, Claire Falkenstein, Joe Fay, Lorser Feitelson, Lilly Fenichel, Jud Fine, Bruria Finkel, Max Finkelstein, Oskar Fischinger, Ethel Fisher, Judy Fiskin, Robbert Flick, Betty Davenport Ford, Llyn Foulkes, Sam Francis, Magdalena Frimkess, Michael Frimkess, Walter Gabrielson, Simone Gad, Charles Garabedian, John Garrett, Christopher Georgesco, George Geyer, James S. Gill, Shirl Goedike, Betty Gold, Judith Golden, Jack Goldstein, Joe Goode, John S. Gordon, Robert Graham, Mark Greenfield, Scott Grieger, Ron Griffin, Raul Guerrero, Allan Hacklin, Richard Haines, D.J. Hall, Frederick Hammersley, David Hammons, Lloyd Hamrol, Robert Hansen, Marvin Harden, June Harwood, Maren Hassinger, James Hayward, Wayne Alaniz Healy, Phillip Hefferton, Robert Heinecken, Victor Henderson, Maxwell Hendler, George Herms, Anthony Hernandez, Susan Lautman Hertel, Charles Christopher Hill, Gilah Yelin Hirsch, Diana Hobson, David Hockney, Patrick Hogan, Tom Holste, Varnette Honeywood, Dennis Hopper, Channa Horwitz, Bruce Houston, Bernard Hoyes, Douglas Huebler, James Hueter, Robert Irwin, Sandra Jackman, Suzanne Jackson, James Jarvaise, Connie Jenkins, Tom Jenkins, Daniel Larue Johnson, Don Johnson, Wesley Johnson, Ynez Johnston, John Paul Jones, Mary Jones, Reuben Kadish, Steve Kahn, Matsumi Kanemitsu, Allan Kaprow, Barbara Kasten, Craig Kauffman, Claude Kent, Edward Kienholz, The Kipper Kids, Gloria Kisch, Tom Knechtel, Emil Kosa Jr., Peter Krasnow, Patsy Krebs, Roger Kuntz, Suzanne Lacy, Lili Lakich, Paul Landacre, Doyle Lane, William Leavitt, Rico Lebrun, John Lees, Harold Lehman, Mark Lere, Samella Lewis, Peter Liashkov, Joyce Lightbody, Ron Linden

Survey of the work of L.A. based artists before 1980. Edited by Lyn Kienholz with contributing editors Elizabeta Betinski and Corinne Nelson. Includes appendix. "'L.A. Rising SoCal Artists Before 1980' is the first comprehensive pictorial showcase of the diverse universe of artists working in the Los Angeles area during the formative period of Los Angeles' art history. ... [details]

SHE : Works by Wallace Berman & Richard Prince

Richard Prince, Wallace Berman, Kristine McKenna, Michael Kohn

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held January 15 - March 7, 2009. Introduction by Michael Kohn. Essay by Kristine McKenna. Includes exhibition checklist. "The use of heterosexual pornography or soft erotica in collage and assemblage is often all too uncritical, but for a few of the California artists who came of age in the early 1950s, Wallace Berman for example, its applications were much more nuanced. ... [details]

The Ferus Gallery : A Place to Begin

Kristine McKenna, Ferus Gallery, Walter Hopps, Ed Kienholz, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, Robert Irwin, Larry Bell, Ken Price, Wallace Berman, Irving Blum, John Altoon, Jay DeFeo, Roy Lichtenstein, John Mason, Craig Kauffman, Dennis Hopper

Historical examination of The Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles CA. Written and organized by critic and journalist, Kristine McKenna. "Prior to the opening of The Ferus Gallery in 1957 it was virtually impossible to see contemporary art in Los Angeles. ... [details]

The Artist Observed

Sidney B. Felsen, Constance W. Glenn, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Sam Francis, Wallace Berman, Edward Kienholz, Vija Celmins, Michael Heizer, Elizabeth Murray, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, James Rosenquist, Allen Ginsberg, Ann Hamilton, Frank Gehry, Mark di Suvero, Philip Guston, Bruce Nauman, Henry Geldzahler, Robert Gober, Jonathan Borofsky, Dorothea Rockburne, Isamu Noguchi, William Burroughs, Ken Price, Brice Marden, Ed Ruscha, Susan Rothenberg, John Baldessari, Richard Diebenkorn, Robert Graham, Malcolm Morley

Photographs of artists at work. Essay by Constance W. Glenn, text by the artist. [details]

Ferus

[First Edition]

Irving Blum, Roberta Bernstein, Kirk Varnedoe, John Altoon, Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, Joseph Cornell, Jay DeFeo, Richard Diebenkorn, Robert Irwin, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Craig Kauffman, Ellsworth Kelly, Ed Kienholz, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Moses, Ken Price, Edward Ruscha, Kurt Schwitters, Hassel Smith, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with museum-quality show held at Gagosian Chelsea, New York, September 12 - October 19, 2002. Essay by Kirk Varnedoe written shortly prior to his death, interview by Roberta Bernstein with Irving Blum. ... [details]

Arranged Marriage

Andrew Roth, Simon Anderson, Wallace Berman, Robert Watts

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show of the work of Wallace Berman and Robert Watts held October 28 - December 10, 1999. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white and color, including two fold-outs, all in the format of a wedding album. ... [details]

Sunshine & Noir : Art in L.A. 1960 - 1997

Lars Nittve, William R. Hackman, Mike Davis, Anne Ayres, Timothy Martin, Laura Cottingham, Terry R. Myers, Russell Ferguson, Peter Schjeldahl, Laura Aguilar, John Altoon, Michael Asher, John Baldessari, Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, Tony Berlant, Wallace Berman, Chris Burden, Vija Celmins, Richard Diebenkorn, Kim Dingle, Llyn Foulkes, Sam Francis, Joe Goode, David Hammons, Georg Herms, David Hockney, Dennis Hopper, Robert Irwin, Jim Isermann, Larry Johnson, Craig Kauffman, Mike Kelley, Edward Kienholz, Paul McCarthy, John McCracken, John McLaughlin, Ed Moses, Bruce Nauman, Catherine Opie, Jennifer Pastor, Raymond Pettibon, Lari Pittman, Ken Price, Stephen Prina, Charles Ray, Jason Rhoades, Nancy Rubins, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Jim Shaw, Alexis Smith, Diana Thater, Robert Therrien, James Turrell, Bill Viola, Doug Wheeler, Christopher Williams

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, Summer 1997. Traveled to the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, Fall 1997; the Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Italy, Spring 1998; and the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, Fall 1998. ... [details]

Secret Exhibition : Six California Artists of the Cold War Era

Rebecca Solnit, Wallace Berman, Jess, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Wally Hedrick, George Herms

Critical examination of post war California artists by Rebecca Solnit. Includes notes, bibliography, and index. "Secret Exhibition chronicles a vital California art movement, focusing on six artists - Wallace Berman, Jess, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Wally Hedrick, George Herms - who broke new ground with provocative work, especially in assemblage and mixed-media projects. ... [details]

Lost and Found in California : Four Decades of Assemblage Art

Sandra Leonard Starr, Kurt Schwitters, Arthur Dove, Max Ernst, Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp, Knud Merrild, Man Ray, Clay Spohn, Wallace Berman, Hassel Smith, Wally Hedrick, Manuel Neri, Richard Diebenkorn, Gordon Wagner, Lee Mullican, Robert Alexander, Stuart Z. Perkoff, Edward Kienholz, Bruce Conner, George Herms, Fred Mason, Ben Talbert, Jess [Jess Collins], Joan Brown, H.C. Westermann, John Reed, Llyn Foulkes, Ed Bereal, Harold Perisco Paris, Roy De Forest, William T. Wiley, Ron Miyashiro, Vija Celmins, Tony Berlant, Bruce Houston, Terry Allen, Robert Graham, Betye Saar, Clayton Bailey, William Allan, Roland Reiss, Jeffrey Vallance, Michael C. McMillen, Steve Galloway, Edward Hendersen, Jonathan Borofsky, Mike Kelley, Kim Abeles, Alexis Smith, Alison Saar, Patricia Patterson, Gilbert Lujan, Robert Hudson, David Best, Peter Voulkos, Kenneth Price, Mark di Suvero, Joe Goode, Claes Oldenburg, John Chamberlain, Tom Holland, Laddie John Dill, Charles Arnoldi, Michael Todd, Deborah Butterfield, Connie Zehr, Edward Ruscha, John Baldessari, Hannah Wilke, Bruce Nauman, Richard Pettibone, Allen Ruppersberg, Eric Orr, Dennis Oppenheim, Chris Burden, Charles Ray, Zizi Raymond, Terry Fox

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show organized by James Corcoran Gallery in cooperation with Shoshana Wayne Gallery and Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, California. "The First Generation, 1940-1962," held at James Corcoran Gallery; "The Second Generation: The Narrative, 1957 - 1987," held at Shoshana Wayne Gallery; and "The Second Generation: Form and Idea, 1960 - 1987," held at Pence Gallery. ... [details]