November 12, 2011 through March 31, 2012
American Museum of Ceramic Art
340 South Garey Ave. Pomona, CA
The American Museum of Ceramic Art, a proud participant of the J. Paul Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945—1980 exhibition project, announces its countdown to its November 12th, 2011 GRAND OPENING at its future, new location at 399 North Garey Ave, Pomona, CA 91767. The first project of its kind, Pacific Standard Time is a collaboration of more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California coming together for six months beginning October 2011 to tell the story of the birth of the Los Angeles art scene and how it became a new force in the art world. Each institution will make its own contribution to this grand-scale story of artistic innovation and social change, told through a multitude of simultaneous exhibitions and programs. Exploring and celebrating the significance of the crucial years after World War II through the tumultuous period of the 1960s and 70s, Pacific Standard Time encompasses developments from modernist architecture and design to multi-media installations; from L.A. Pop to post-minimalism; from the films of the African-American L.A. Rebellion to the feminist happenings of the Woman’s Building; from ceramics to Chicano performance art, and from Japanese-American design to the pioneering work of artists’ collectives.
To represent the significant role of ceramics in this time period, the American Museum of Ceramic Art is researching and planning for an exhibition of post-WWII Los Angeles area ceramics entitled, Common Ground: Ceramics in Southern California 1945-1975. This seminal exhibition of mid-century Southern California pottery will focus on the tremendous growth and experimentation in studio and industrial ceramic work during the decades following WWII. Artist Millard Sheets (1907-1989), a leading educator and designer, exerted considerable influence on a multitude of Los Angeles area art institutions. Sheets’ strongly held concept of “good design” acted as a catalyst in forming ceramic practices and opinions about art, interiors and architecture. Common Ground will survey examples of work by such notable ceramicists as Laura Andreson, Carlton Ball, Dora De Larios, Otto & Vivika Heino, Elaine Katzer, Glen Lukens, William Manker, John Mason, Harrison McIntosh, Gertrud & Otto Natzler, Susan Peterson, Kenneth Price, Paul Soldner, and Peter Voulkos.
Left to Right: Raul Coronel, Peter Voulkos, Beatrice Wood, Susi Singer.
Photography: Gene Sasse
For more information visit: http://www.amoca.org/pacific-standard-time
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