Pop And More From The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation
Date: January 6, 2003 – March 1, 2003
Curated By: Billie Milam Weisman
Venue: Luckman Gallery, California State University Los Angeles
5151 State University Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90032
Exhibited Artists:
Lita Albuquerque, Peter Alexander, John Altoon, Douglas Argue, Robert Arneson, Charles Arnoldi, John Baldessari, Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, Tony Berlant, Beau Bradford, Mary Corse, Charles Fine, Sam Francis, Viola Frey, Jack Goldstein, Joe Goode, Tim Hawkinson, David Hockney, Marina Kappos, Craig Kauffman, John McCracken, John McLaughlin, Arnold Mesches, Joel Morrison, Ed Moses, Matt Mullican, Kenneth Noland, John Okulick, Edward Ruscha, Alexis Smith, Christopher Taggart, Velizar Mihich Vasa, Tyler Vlahovich, Peter Voulkos, and Tom Wudl.
Pop And More From The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation
The Luckman Gallery, located on the campus of California State University, Los Angeles, announces an exhibition entitled Pop and More from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection. On view January 6 - March 1, 2003, this group show features works by Richard Artschwager, Jim Dine, Gilbert & George, Red Grooms, Keith Haring, Allen Jones, Yayoi Kusama, Claes Oldenburg, Nam June Paik, James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, and others.
Pop and More from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation is a selection of works from the vast and significant holdings of the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation. The Foundation--dedicated to continuing the legacy and vision of the late entrepreneur, philanthropist and art collector, Frederick R. Weisman-preserves, collects and makes publicly accessible significant works of modern and contemporary art. This exhibition comprises paintings, sculpture and photography from the Foundation collection dating from the late 1960s to the present. Mr. Weisman, together with his wife, Billie Milam Weisman, collected works by established and emerging artists from the 1980s - 1990s according to his intuitive preferences. Mr. Weisman passed away in 1994, leaving the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation under the direction of his wife, Billie Milam Weisman.
Reflecting the significance that Pop Art, California art, and SuperRealism play in the Weisman collection as a whole, Pop and More from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection features works by significant as well as emerging artists in these fields. Works by Pop artist Andy Warhol include the infamous Marilyn Monroe (1967), a suite of 10 silkscreens of the legendary screen goddess that have become icons in their own right. Richard Artschwager, another New York artist associated with Pop, is represented by Exclamation Point (1977), a three-dimensional version of the punctuation mark realized larger than life in bright green bristles. Ed Ruscha, the quintessential California Pop artist, is represented with two important paintings from the early 1980s entitled The End and Ancient Dogs Barking-Modern Dogs Barking. Also included are large and historically important paintings by James Rosenquist and Tom Wesselmann, a large tarp painting by the late Keith Haring, and a television "robot" by Nam June Paik, among works by many other artists, little-known and famous alike. Like the Weisman collection at Carolwood, the Foundation's museum, works will be installed according to their visual relationships rather than by artistic movement or historical period.