Michael Asher, installation, 1970. Viewing out of gallery toward street from small triangular area, Pomona College Museum of Art. © Michael Asher. Photo courtesy of the Frank J. Thomas Archives.
The Pomona College Museum of Art
It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973
Part 1: Hal Glicksman at Pomona
August 30-November 6, 2011
The Pomona College Museum of Art
330 N. College Ave.
Claremont, CA
www.pomona.edu/museum
Pomona alumnus Chris Burden's newly fabricated 1967 sculpture also premieres.
Pomona College Museum of Art is pleased to announce the opening of the first of three exhibitions associated with It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973. "Part 1: Hal Glicksman at Pomona" opens August 30 and continues through November 6, 2011. The public reception will be on Tuesday, August 30, 2011 from 5 to 7 p.m. A Press Preview will be held Tuesday, August 30, from 3 to 5 p.m. The museum will host a series of Special Opening Events on Saturday September 17th from 4 to 7 p.m. including a Keynote Lecture by Dr. Thomas Crow (4 p.m., Bridges Hall of Music) and a conversation with Hal Glicksman and Mowry Baden moderated by Crow (5 p.m.) followed by a reception at the museum.
"Part 1: Hal Glicksman at Pomona" examines the period of ground-breaking artwork and intellectual ferment that commenced in the fall of 1969, when Mowry Baden, Pomona's chair of the art department hired Hal Glicksman as curator. Glicksman left a preparator's position assisting legendary curator Walter Hopps at the Pasadena Art Museum. This project argues that Glicksman recognized a shift in artists' approach to creating work, and the potential that this process held for transforming how art functioned in the museum.
During the academic year of 1969-1970, Glicksman established one of the first museum residency programs-the Artist's Gallery-in which artists used the museum gallery as a studio space to create environments in the museum. The exhibition brings together re-creations of the site-specific works shown at Pomona College during Glicksman's tenure, along with artworks and documentation of other projects shown at the museum during this era. The highlights of this exhibition will be the creation of a new work by Michael Asher in response to his landmark 1970 installation at Pomona College, the re-creations of installations by Lloyd Hamrol and Tom Eatherton, and formative works by Lewis Baltz, Judy Chicago, Ron Cooper, and Robert Irwin.
Premiering to the public on August 30, and in conjunction with It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973, is 1969 Pomona alumnus Chris Burden's newly fabricated 1967 untitled sculpture. Burden's six-foot cubic sculpture is located in the courtyard adjacent to the Museum.
The catalogue for It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973 chronicles the activities of artists, scholars, students, and faculty associated with the College. Featuring interviews with Hal Glicksman and Helene Winer, archival reprints, and eighteen new interviews with artists of the era, the book contains 280 images. The catalogue is available for purchase for 49.95 USD through D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers and Artbook.com.
Support for It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973 generously provided by the Getty Foundation.
About It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973
From 1969 to 1973, a series of radical art projects took place at the far eastern edge of Los Angeles County at the Pomona College Museum of Art. Here, Hal Glicksman, a pioneering curator of Light and Space art, and Helene Winer, later the director of Artists Space and Metro Pictures in New York, curated landmark exhibitions by young local artists who bridged the gap between Conceptual art and postminimalism, and presaged the development of postmodernism in the later 1970s.
Providing unprecedented and revelatory insight into the art history of postwar Los Angeles, the project It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973 consists of three distinct, but related, exhibitions curated by Rebecca McGrew and Glenn Phillips-"Part 1: Hal Glicksman at Pomona" on view August 30 to November 6, 2011; "Part 2: Helene Winer at Pomona" on view December 3, 2011 to February 19, 2012; and "Part 3: At Pomona" (studio art faculty and students) on view March 10 to May 13, 2012.
About The Pomona College Museum of Art
The Pomona College Museum of Art (330 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA) is open to the public free of charge. For more information, call (909) 621-8283 or visit www.pomona.edu/museum.
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Media Contact:
Rebecca McGrew, Pomona College Museum of Art
909.607.7358 / rebecca.mcgrew@pomona.edu