Themes

Frontrunners

The work and activism of this group of black artists in the emergent Los Angeles art scene in the late 1950s and 1960s would influence a younger generation.
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Assembling

For black artists in the 1960s and 70s, assemblage was a key artistic strategy, transforming discarded objects into expressions of collective social experiences.
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Artists/Gallerists

Some artists took the initiative to create exhibition opportunities for themselves and others, becoming essential factors in the growth of Los Angeles’s art scene.
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Post/Minimalism and Performance

Artists who moved beyond the constraints of representational aesthetics to experiment in a multimedia and postminimalist vein expanded existing ideas of what “black art” could be.
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Los Angeles Snapshot

Acknowledging the network of supporters who stood behind black artists in L.A. during the 1960s-1970s era of artistic collaboration and political activism.
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