California Heritage Museum, Santa Monica . . . Coming Soon
I am still pinching myself.
The California Heritage Museum has announced “Some Assemblage Required: A Historical Look at Assemblage Art in L.A. County,” a major survey of assemblage artists, living and deceased, whose primary work was rooted here in Los Angeles. The roster reads like a who’s who: George Herms, Ed Kienholz, Nancy Reddin Kienholz, Betye Saar, Alison Saar, Tony Berlant, Carl Cheng, Michael McMillen, Alexis Smith, Gordon Wagner. The giants. The founding voices. And there is my name, right alongside them.
It gets better. The Museum chose my piece CLOCK LOBSTER (Homage to Salvador Dali) as the featured artwork on the exhibition flyer. Out of all the work by all of those artists, they picked mine to represent the show. This one hits close to home. My first solo museum exhibition was at this same museum in 2019, also called “Some Assemblage Required.” Now the title returns as a group historical survey, and my work takes its place in the broader lineage of L.A. assemblage, alongside the artists who built that tradition. I am grateful and humbled.
More details to come. Stay tuned.