HEAD FOR THE HILLS! Selections from the Grunwald Center and Hammer Contemporary Collection
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HEAD FOR THE HILLS! includes many recent acquisitions and demonstrates the Hammer’s commitment to collecting diverse work by both local and international artists in a broad range of mediums. Borrowing its title from a 1974 work by the conceptual artist John Knight—a slideshow of newspaper headlines extracted from their original context in the Los Angeles Times—this exhibition highlights artworks that use the local, personal, and banal to tap into the universal.
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Nairy Baghramian, Scruff of the Neck (AP), 2016Cast and polished aluminum, polished aluminum rods, plaster, beeswax and rubber. 79 1/8 × 137 3/4 × 31 7/16 in. (201 × 349.9 × 79.9 cm). Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Purchased with funds provided by Susan and Larry Marx, in honor of Ann Philbin.
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Kaari Upson, Untitled, 2010Smoke and oil on panel. Each panel: 96 x 48 in. (243.8 x 121.9 cm). Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Purchase.
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![Installation featuring a partial wall with a painting of a horse and a potted plant on the floor]()
William Leavitt, Cutaway View, 2008Mixed-media installation with acrylic-on-canvas painting. Overall: 98 x 75 x 26 in. (248.9 x 190.5 x 66 cm); painting: 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm). Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Purchased through the Board of Advisors Acquisition Fund.
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Vija Celmins, Untitled, 1970Lithograph. 20 1/4 × 29 1/4 in. (51.4 × 74.3 cm). Collection UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum. Gift of the UCLA Art Council.
HEAD FOR THE HILLS! Selections from the Grunwald Center and Hammer Contemporary Collection is organized by Paulina Pobocha, former Robert Soros Senior Curator, with Jennifer Buonocore-Nedrelow, curatorial assistant.