Still Life with Fish at the Hammer Museum Celebrates West Coast Photography of the 1960s and Beyond
Since the 1960s Los Angeles has been a seminal location for experimental photography. Robert Heinecken’s founding of the photography program at UCLA has not only impacted generations of artists using photography but also set the parameters for the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts’ subsequent collecting in this area. This exhibition is organized by chief curator Connie Butler with Emily Gonzalez-Jarrett, curatorial associate.
The second half of the 20th century was an incredible time for photography in California. Anchored, in part, by the founding of the photography program at UCLA by American artist Robert Heinecken, the West Coast became an epicenter for experimentation in the medium.
Now, an exhibition at the Hammer Museum, Still Life with Fish, celebrates this time period, beginning with works created in the 1960s and going through to the present. Focusing on seriality, identity, and place, the show contains pieces by Paul Outerbridge, Ed Ruscha, Sharon Lockhart, and Andy Warhol.
Still Life with Fish was curated by Connie Butler, with Emily Gonzalez-Jarrett, and is on display until May 15. — Jessica P. Ogilvie, Apr. 13
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