Local Color

Curated by Virginia Rutledge
March 22 - April 22, 1999

Kevin Appel
Linda Besemer
Ingrid Calame
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
Laura Owens
Monique Prieto
Pauline Stella Sanchez
Jennifer Steinkamp

Featuring work by eight critically acclaimed local artists, the exhibition surveys the role of color in contemporary abstraction for which Los Angeles is increasingly recognized, both nationally and internationally. Paintings by Kevin Appel, Linda Besemer, Ingrid Calame, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Laura Owens, Moniques Prieto, Pauline Stella Sanchez and a video projection by Jennifer Steinkamp employ an intense post-industrial palatte and vernacular references drawn from sources as varied as household plastic products, computer animation, and modernist architecture.

Curator Virginia Rutledge is an art historian and critic living in Los Angeles. She is a frequent contributor to Art in America and is the former West Coast editor of Art Papers.