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SOUTH OF PICO

“In SOUTH OF PICO, [writer, curator, and professor] Kellie Jones explores how artists in the 1960s and ’70s in Los Angeles’ black communities created a vibrant, productive, and engaged activist arts scene in the face of structural racism… She shows how the work of black Angeleno artists such as Betye Saar, Charles White, Noah Purifoy, and Senga Nengudi spoke to the dislocation of migration, urban renewal, and restrictions on black mobility… She also attends to these artists’ relationships with gallery and museum culture as well as the establishment of black-owned arts spaces. With SOUTH OF PICO, Jones expands the understanding of the histories of black arts and creativity in Los Angeles and beyond.”*

Join the California African American Museum (CAAM) and Art + Practice in welcoming Kellie Jones for a discussion and signing of her book.

KELLIE JONES—SOUTH OF PICO 

AUTHOR TALK AND BOOK SIGNING, Monday, October 23, from 7 pm to 9 pm.

ART + PRACTICE, Public Programs Space, 4334 Degnan Boulevard, Leimert Park, Los Angeles.

artandpractice.org/public-programs/

dukeupress.edu/south-of-pico

Image credit: Duke University Press.

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AL LOVING AT ART + PRACTICE

Al Loving. Untitled, 1982. Mixed media, 60 1/4 x 48 inches. Courtesy of the Estate of Al Loving and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York.

Al Loving. Untitled, 1982.
Mixed media, 60 1/4 x 48 inches.
Courtesy of the Estate of Al Loving and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York.

“For forty years, Al Loving experimented with materials and process to expand the definition of modern painting, drawing on everything from free jazz to his family’s quilting tradition. In the 1980s, Loving broke free of the flat image, using heavy rag paper to make three dimensional collages in brilliant colors. SPIRAL PLAY: LOVING IN THE ’80s at Art + Practice features twelve of these collages, some of them monumental in scale. The work is radical, beautiful, and deeply human.”*

 

SPIRAL PLAY: LOVING IN THE ’80s is curated by Christopher Bedford and Katy Siegel, director and senior curator, respectively, at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the co-presenter of the exhibition with Art + Practice.

Special thanks to the Estate of Al Loving and Garth Greenan Gallery in New York City.

 

SPIRAL PLAY: LOVING IN THE ’80s, through July 29.

ART + PRACTICE, 3401 West 43rd Place, Leimert Park, Los Angeles.

*artandpractice.org/exhibitions/loving/

Al Loving. Humbird, 1989. Mixed media on board, 72 x 100 inches. Courtesy of the Estate of Al Loving and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York

Al Loving. Humbird, 1989.
Mixed media on board, 72 x 100 inches.
Courtesy of the Estate of Al Loving and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York