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September 17–October 30, 1994 |
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This exhibition surveyed thirty works created over the preceding seventeen
years by David Nash, an acclaimed British artist. Included were large-scale
sculpture, drawings, and photographs inspired by the natural environment,
particularly trees. This survey was presented as part of the UK/LA Festival
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September 17–October 30, 1994 |
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This exhibition consisted of a dozen recent pastel works on paper by Los
Angeles artist Lavi Daniel. Exhibited for the first time, Daniel's drawings
are characterized by forms that vacillate between biomorphism and
abstraction; the forms suggest organic processes as they engage issues of
pictorial representation.
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July 9–September 6, 1994
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This presentation of collaborative drawings by internationally known and
emerging contemporary artists was based on the Surrealist parlor game
cadavre exquis, in which several artists participate in creating a single
drawing. Completed in serial fashion, with each part folded to obscure the
previous artist's rendering, these drawings contain surprises and
revelations that arise from the artists' different styles and working
processes. Organized by The Drawing Center in New York City, this project
and exhibition presented collaborative drawings by two hundred artists
living around the world and working in a variety of media, including Ida
Applebroog, George Baselitz, Chuck Close, Karen Finley, Jenny Holzer, Matt
Mullican, Betye Saar, Jim Shaw, Art Spiegelman, and Megan Williams. |
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July 9–September 5, 1994 |
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Altered Egos presented work by artists who produce art under assumed names
or who investigate the notion of hidden identities within their work. Unlike
writers who simply adopt a pseudonym, these visual artists actually assume
or appropriate another identifiable personality in their process of creating
art. The exhibition, which was curated by the Santa Monica Museum's
curatorial consultant Karen Moss, included work by Vernon Fisher, Maxine
Henryson and Hunter Reynolds, Komar & Melamid, Charles LaBelle, Annabel
Livermore, Theresa Pendlebury, Brian Tucker, Jan Tumlir and Kevin Sullivan,
and Millie Wilson.
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May 25–August 28, 1994 |
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Presented at the Community Focus Gallery, Visual Riches celebrated the
creative energy and talent of the diverse community of artists who live or
work in Santa Monica. The exhibition followed in the spirit of the Santa
Monica Festival, which presented the artistic and historical heritage of
Latinos and African-Americans in Santa Monica. Artists included were Jeanine
Brinker, George Centeno, Julia Nee Chu, David Garcia, Marcial Godoy-Opazo,
Shannon Tokuda, and Ron Wilkins. |
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May 5–June 12, 1994 |
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Betye Saar addressed concepts of passage, crossroads, change, death, and
rebirth in Limbo, an exhibition of several separate installations. The
environment that Saar created exuded a meditative atmosphere that involved
the viewer emotionally as well as visually. Areas of the installation
invited the viewer to participate in a simple, personal ritual of creative
grieving by writing the name of a deceased person on the wall and by waving
a rainstick. |
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April 1–May 15, 1994 |
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Syrop conceived this project in 1974 based on the experience of mistaking
one person for another. Building upon past research and projects, Syrop
arranged hundreds of portraits from high-school yearbooks in systematic
groupings based upon similar facial characteristics. The result was a
network of faces that the viewer experienced as meandering, interwoven
pathways, or as fields of overlapping and dissolving characteristics. |
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March 19–May 15, 1994 |
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Under Lock and Key, a multimedia video installation by Beth B, a New York
film and video artist, explored themes of domestic and criminal violence. At
the core of this exhibition was Amnesia, a painting, photographic, and video
installation in which fascistic strategies of intimidation were appropriated
in a scathing indictment of racism and other destructive attitudes. This
exhibition originated at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. |
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February 9–May 1, 1994 |
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Presented at the Community Focus Gallery, this exhibition was juried by
artist Michael C. McMillen and included the work of twenty-two artists who
live or work in Santa Monica: Mimi Abers, Susan Alinsangan, Robert Bynder,
Denise Carson, Marcia D' Esopo, Brian Doyle, Erwin Glaub, Sharon Gretsch,
Arleen G. Hendler, Kate Horan, Linn Kier, Steven J. Koeppe, Louise
Krasniewicz, Brian Lizotte, Elaine Nardini, Tom O'Halloran, Frank Rozasy,
Mark Sparks, James M. Williams, Charles Winebrenner, Jim Yanagisawa, and
Zelda Zinn. |
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January 20–March 6, 1994 |
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Out West and Back East was a group exhibition of painting, photography,
sculpture, and video by fifteen emerging artists from Los Angeles and New
York. Disparate in style, medium, and subject matter, the work is
characterized by a strong sense of individual vision. The artists included
Matthew Antezzo, Doug Aitken, Phyllis Baldino, Cheryl Donegan, Chris Finley,
Lauren Lesko, Jason McKechnie, Catherine Opie, Adam Ross, Mira Schor,
Christian Schumann, Amy Sillman, John Souza, Daniel Wiener, and Lisa
Yuskavage. |
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January 21–March 16, 1994 |
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Using text, sound, and slide and film projections, Opera of Blame examined
the contrast between America's most closely held political, moral, and
philosophical beliefs and their contemporary legacies. Presenting his
conception of a West Coast Statue of Liberty, the artist depicted America as
a moribund giant lurching around the Pacific Rim.
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