Rosie Lee Tompkins, Untitled, 1996, (quilted by Irene Bankhead in 1996), Eli Leon Trust, photo by Sharon Risedorph..
‘Outliers and American Vanguard Art’ at LACMA The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) hosts the West Coast presentation of ‘Outliers and American Vanguard Art’. November 18, 2018 to March 17, 2019.]]>
Source: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
The exhibition explores key moments in American art history when avant-garde artists and outliers intersected, and how their exchanges ushered in new paradigms based on inclusion, integration, and assimilation. Featuring over 250 works in a range of media, the show presents works by more than 80 self-taught and trained artists such as Henry Darger, William Edmondson, Lonnie Holley, Greer Lankton, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Matt Mullican, Horace Pippin, Martín Ramírez, Betye Saar, Judith Scott, Charles Sheeler, Cindy Sherman, Bill Traylor, and Kara Walker.
”Outliers and American Vanguard Art” is organized across three periods: mid-1920s to early 1940s; late 1960s to early 1990s; and mid-1990s to the present. These were moments marked by social, political, and cultural upheaval when values were brought into question. It was during these periods that the boundaries between selftaught, marginalized artists and the avant-garde became porous, and interchange generated receptivity from the center towards the periphery. New kinds of art making were welcomed and considered on an even playing field and artists who came from the margins gained a measure of agency that they would not have previously had.
”Outliers and American Vanguard Art” is curated by Lynne Cooke and organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, where it was on view January 28–May 13, 2018. The show then traveled to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, where it was on view June 24–September 30, 2018. The presentation at LACMA is coordinated by Rita Gonzalez, curator and acting department head of Contemporary Art.
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