Otis College of Art and Design is a private art and design school in Los Angeles,California,United States. Established in 1918,it was the city's first independent professional school of art. The main campus is located in the former IBM Aerospace headquarters at 9045 Lincoln Boulevard in Westchester,Los Angeles. The school's programs,accredited by the WSCUC and National Association of Schools of Art and Design,include BFA and MFA degrees.
Millard Owen Sheets was an American artist,teacher,and architectural designer. He was one of the earliest of the California Scene Painting artists and helped define the art movement. Many of his large-scale building-mounted mosaics from the mid-20th century are still extant in Southern California. His paintings are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum in New York,the Chicago Art Institute,the National Gallery in Washington D.C.;and the Los Angeles County Museum.
James Milford Zornes was an American watercolor artist and teacher known as part of the California Scene Painting movement.
The Ben Maltz Gallery at the Otis College of Art and Design was an art space in Los Angeles,California,that closed permanently in 2020.
The California Art Club (CAC) is one of the oldest and most active arts organizations in California. Founded in December 1909,it celebrated its centennial in 2009 and into the spring of 2010. The California Art Club originally evolved out of The Painters Club of Los Angeles,a short-lived group that lasted from 1906–09. The new organization was more inclusive,as it accepted women,sculptors and out-of-state artists.
Peter Shelton is a contemporary American sculptor born in 1951 in Troy,Ohio.
Mark Dean Veca is an American artist based in Altadena,California. He creates paintings,drawings and large-scale installations.
Keith Puccinelli was an American artist based in Ventura,California. He created drawings,sculptures,and interactive installations.
Maxwell Hendler is an American painter. In 1975,he became the first contemporary artist to have pictures in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Peter Seitz Adams is an American artist. His body of work focuses on landscapes and seascapes created en plein air in oil or pastel as well as enigmatic figure and still-life paintings. He is noted for his colorful,high-key palette and broad brushwork. Adams has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums,including throughout California,the Western United States,and on the East Coast in Philadelphia,Vermont,and New York. Adams is the longest serving President of the California Art Club and has served on its board of directors in Pasadena,California from 1993 to 2018. He is also a writer on subjects relating to historic artists for the California Art Club Newsletter,as well as for a number of the organization's exhibition catalogs.
Meg Linton is an American curator of contemporary art and a writer. Her curatorial efforts have ranged from historical investigations such as "Doin’It in Public:Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building","The Los Angeles School:Karl Benjamin,Lorser Feitelson,Frederick Hammersley,June Harwood,Helen Lundeberg,John McLaughlin",and "In the Land of Retinal Delights:The Juxtapoz Factor" to showcasing the work of single artists who are stylistically different such as "Alison Saar:STILL.. .","Robert Williams:Through Prehensile Eye," and "Joan Tanner:On Tenderhook" to group exhibitions such as "Mexicali Biennial 2010," "Do It Now:Live Green!" and "Tapping the Third Realm."
John Fayette Frame is an American sculptor,photographer,composer and filmmaker. He has been working as an artist in California since the early 1980s. Frame has been given Grants and Awards from the National Endowment for the Arts,the J. Paul Getty Museum,and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He has participated in group exhibitions around the world and has had major solo exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,the Long Beach Museum of Art,and the Huntington Library,Art Collections,and Botanical Gardens. After five years of preparation,Part One of "The Tale of the Crippled Boy",a sweeping project incorporating sculpture,photography,installation,music and film,premiered at the Huntington Library in San Marino,California in March 2011.
Pacific Standard Time:Art in L.A.,1945–1980 was a scholarly initiative funded by the J. Paul Getty Trust to historicize the contributions to contemporary art history of artists,curators,critics,and others based in Los Angeles. Planned for nearly a decade,PST, as it was called,granted nearly 60 organizations throughout Southern California a total of $10 million to produce exhibitions that explored the years between 1945 and 1980. Underscoring the significance of this project,art critic Roberta Smith wrote in The New York Times:
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.
George Herms is an American artist best known for creating assemblages out of discarded,often rusty,dirty or broken every-day objects,and juxtaposing those objects so as to infuse them with poetry,humor and meaning. He is also known for his works on paper,including works with ink,collage,drawing,paint and poetry. The prolific Herms has also created theater pieces,about which he has said,"I treat it as a Joseph Cornell box big enough that you can walk around in. It's just a continuation of my sculpture,one year at a time." Legendary curator Walter Hopps,who met Herms in 1956,"placed Herms on a dazzling continuum of assemblage artists that includes Pablo Picasso,Kurt Schwitters,Marcel Duchamp,and Joseph Cornell,as well as California luminaries Wallace Berman and Edward Kienholz." Often called a member of the West Coast Beat movement,Herms said that Wallace Berman taught him that "any object,even a mundane cast-off,could be of great interest if contextualized properly." "That’s my whole thing," Herms says. "I turn shit into gold. I just really want to see something I've never seen before." George Herms lives and works in Los Angeles.
Ruth G. Waddy was an American artist,printmaker,activist,and editor,based in Los Angeles.
Coleen Sterritt is an American sculptor known for abstracted,hybrid works made from a myriad of everyday objects and materials,combined in unexpected ways. Writers root her work in the tradition of post-minimalists Jackie Winsor,Eva Hesse and Nancy Graves,and assemblage artists such as Louise Nevelson,Robert Rauschenberg and Marisa Merz;she is sometimes associated with contemporaries Jessica Stockholder,Nancy Rubins,and Tony Cragg. Sculpture critic Kay Whitney suggests Sterritt's work "expands and reinterprets three of the most important artistic inventions of the 20th Century—collage,abstraction and the readymade"—in play with the traditions of Arte Povera bricolage and Surrealist psychological displacement. Curator Andi Campognone considers Sterritt one of the most influential post-1970s artists in establishing "the Los Angeles aesthetic" in contemporary sculpture,while others identify her as an inspiration for later West Coast artists creating hand-made,free-standing sculpture counter to trends toward interventions,public art and environmental works. Constance Mallinson writes that Sterritt's work "walks a line between charm and threat,the natural,the industrial and the hand fabricated,rejecting easy associations for complex reads." Los Angeles Times critic David Pagel calls it smart,funky and "subtly rebellious" in its refashioning of discarded material,dumpster finds,and art-historical lineages.
Patrick Nickell is an American sculptor and visual artist. He has had exhibitions at various universities and galleries,including the one-artist show "Built For Speed,A Sculpture Survey," and currently teaches at Woodbury University as a professor. He has been described as "making messy,minimal sculptures from found and discarded materials such as cardboard,twine,plywood and scrap metal."
William Hemmerdinger is an American artist,gallery owner,critic,and educator. For most of his artistic career he lived and worked in Los Angeles. He now teaches at the Boston Architectural college.
Wendy Maruyama is an American visual artist,furniture maker,and educator from California. She was born in La Junta,Colorado.
Norman Charles Zammitt was an American artist in Southern California who was at the leading edge of the Light and Space Movement,pioneering with his transparent sculptures in the early 1960s,followed in the 1970s by his large scale luminous color paintings.
