Still Life with Fish: Photography from the Collection
- – This is a past exhibition
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. His students and successors—such as Jo Ann Callis, Judy Fiskin, and James Welling—have gone on to teach and influence a younger generation of artists, including Amy Adler, Anne Collier, and Florian Maier-Aichen among many others. Callis’s approach to the constructed image provides one access point in a history that spans the work of Paul Outterbridge, the conceptual experiments of Barbara T. Smith and Allen Ruppersberg, and the contemporary photographs of Collier, Luisa Lambri, and Sharon Lockhart. Drawn from the Hammer Contemporary Collection and the Grunwald Center, this exhibition looks at the themes of seriality, identity, and place in conceptual photography on the West Coast from the 1960s to the present.
This exhibition is organized by chief curator Connie Butler with Emily Gonzalez-Jarrett, curatorial associate.
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Jo Ann Callis, Salt and Pepper and Fire, 1980Chromogenic color print. 24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm). UCLA Grunwald Center of the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum. Gift of the artist. -
Collier Schorr, Die Zwei (Spring Break) (C), 1995-97(detail). Chromogenic color prints. 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm). Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Gift of Patrick Painter and Soo Jin Jeong-Painter. © Collier Schorr, courtesy 303 Gallery, New York. -
Amy Adler, The Problem Child, 1995(detail). Six unique silver gelatin prints. 23 × 31 1/8 × 2 3/8 in. (58.4 x 79.1 x 6 cm) (each framed). Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Gift of Lawrence Barth. -
Sharon Lockhart, Untitled, 1996Chromogenic print. 51 × 41 in. (129.5 × 104.1 cm) (framed). Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Gift of Ellen Kern. -
Allen Ruppersberg, Untitled (City Limits), 1970Black and white photographs. 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm) each. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Promised gift of Beth Rudin DeWoody. -
Still Life with Fish: Photography from the CollectionInstallation view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, February 13-May 15, 2016. Photo: Brian Forrest. -
Still Life with Fish: Photography from the CollectionInstallation view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, February 13-May 15, 2016. Photo: Brian Forrest. -
Still Life with Fish: Photography from the CollectionInstallation view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, February 13-May 15, 2016. Photo: Brian Forrest. -
Still Life with Fish: Photography from the CollectionInstallation view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, February 13-May 15, 2016. Photo: Brian Forrest.
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