When the legendary Ferus Gallery set up shop in Los Angeles in 1957, it didn't have much to its name but the collective ambition and dedication of its founders, artist Ed Kienholz and curator Walter…
“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…
John Altoon (1925-1969) has long been beloved by a cult audience for his gorgeous and quirky abstractions, outrageous psychosexual drawings and legendary manic personality.
Carol S. Eliel, curator of modern art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), has been granted a $50,000 Special Exhibitions Award from the Fellows of Contemporary Art, a Los Angeles-based…