The art show at San Diego Museum of Art is called I5 Resurfacing and will be in place until July 28. As previously stated my objective was to find Richard Diebenkorn's painting of a reclining nude. I found the picture - it was beautiful, but a painting it was not. The image was a color lithograph from 1962. Diebenkorn was enigmatic - individualistic in his approach and associations. It is difficult to assign Diebenkorn's work to a particular movement or style. The show's curator solved this by placing this image with a section of the exhibit called Rendering the Figure with only a handful of other images, such as Ester Hernandez' La Offrenda along the corridor to the Film and Video section.
The rest of the show was also excellent. A Robert Irwin optical illusion installation was at the center of the exhibit, surrounded by the rest of the 'Studs' from LA's legendary Fertus Gallery. Craig Kauffman's Yellow-Blue molded non-logo advertises its presence in an alcove. Beyond these pinacles of 60s (and 70s and 80s) art, were a collection of iris prints - I've got to investigate this latest high quality digital printing technique.
At the end of the show (or the beginning - depending on which direction you went in from) was the San Diego Now room. Jean Lowe's huge wall paper decor with strip malls, subdivisions, freeways and commercial icons - done with housepaint on a large hung canvas - dominates a room containing among other things a stainless steel cable unravelled into a Taproot sculpture.
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