Paul Pescador (born in 1983) is an American contemporary artist who works in film, photography, and performance. [1] [2] [3]
Pescador was born in Indio, California. [4] Pescador received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2005 from the University of Southern California and a Master of Fine Arts degree in 2012 from the University of California, Irvine. [4]
Pescador is known for their playful photographic use of color and composition, and for their short film narratives that follow both personal experience and fiction. [5] [6]
Pescador has shown widely in Los Angeles and other areas of California, including exhibitions at the University of California, Los Angeles, the REDCAT theater at the California Institute for the Arts, and the University of California, Berkeley. Their films have screened at the Machine Project, Human Resources, the Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles, and the Durham Studio Theater at the University of California, Berkeley.
Pescador also works in curation and has organized shows at the Hammer Museum and The Pit in Los Angeles. [7] [8]
In 2015, Pescador was the grant recipient of the California Community Foundation's Emerging Category. [9]
Pescador lives and works in Los Angeles. [4]
The Hammer Museum, which is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, is an art museum and cultural center known for its artist-centric and progressive array of exhibitions and public programs. Founded in 1990 by the entrepreneur-industrialist Armand Hammer to house his personal art collection, the museum has since expanded its scope. The Hammer Museum also hosts over 300 programs throughout the year, from lectures, symposia, and readings to concerts and film screenings. As of February 2014, the museum's collections, exhibitions, and programs are completely free to all visitors.
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Henry Wessel was an American photographer and educator. He made "obdurately spare and often wry black-and-white pictures of vernacular scenes in the American West".
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Before [PST], we knew a lot [about the history of contemporary art], and that lot tended to greatly favor New York. A few Los Angeles artists were highly visible and unanimously revered, namely Ed Ruscha and other denizens of the Ferus Gallery, that supercool locus of the Los Angeles art scene in the 1960s, plus Bruce Nauman and Chris Burden, but that was about it. After, we know a whole lot more, and the balance is much more even. One of the many messages delivered by this profusion of what will eventually be nearly 70 museum exhibitions is that New York did not act alone in the postwar era. And neither did those fabulous Ferus boys.
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