Today, Edward Kienholz (1927–1994) is regarded as a canonical Los Angeles artist and, as cofounder of the Ferus Gallery with Walter Hopps in 1957, an organizational catalyst for that city's art…
“These artists may not hit pay dirt, but they are ready to risk embarkation on strange waters,” Jules Langsner wrote in 1958, referring to the artists on the roster of Los Angeles’s Ferus…