Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection Go on View

LOS ANGELES, CA.- In 2005 the Hammer launched an initiative to build a collection of contemporary art through both purchases and gifts. Recognizing the variety of media that contemporary artists employ, this growing collection of nearly 1500 works includes drawings, photography, sculpture, painting, film and video. In an effort to reflect the museum’s history of exhibitions, many artists represented in the collection—and whose work is on view in this exhibition—have participated in our Hammer Projects series, one of our biannual [...]

Group Exhibition is Last at Current Gallery Space for Quint Contemporary Art

LA JOLLA, CA.- Quint Contemporary Art presents Double Up Double Up, which opened on Friday, June 11 and runs thru July 3, 2010. The gallery is excited to include three artists new to the gallery Tavares Strachan, Eve Sussman & The Rufus Corporation, and Haim Steinbach. The exhibition also features works by Mel Bochner and Roy McMakin. To recall what one has seen is to pull from memory, either consciously or subconsciously. One of the more basic fundamental devices of [...]

New Works by Mel Bochner in Exhibition at Marc Selwyn Fine Art

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Marc Selwyn Fine Art presents an exhibition by Mel Bochner. One of the preeminent figures in the history of conceptual art, Mel Bochner has used verbal, mathematical and geometric systems to influence the content of his work since the mid-1960′s. His “thesaurus paintings,” which debuted at the Whitney Biennial in 2004, are characterized by experimentation and commentary on language. Each begins with an initial word followed by an array of synonyms ranging from the tame to the [...]