May 13 - September 2, 2007
Eden's Edge: Fifteen LA Artists is an exploration of art made in Los Angeles during the past decade that crosses generations, mediums, and materials to link artists who create work ingrained with intensely personal visions. The exhibition features the work of 15 artists—Ginny Bishton, Mark Bradford, Liz Craft, Sharon Ellis, Matt Greene, Elliott Hundley, Stanya Kahn & Harry Dodge, Monica Majoli, Matthew Monahan, Rebecca Morales, Lari Pittman, Ken Price, Jason Rhoades, Anna Sew Hoy, and Jim Shaw—who share a dedication to craft and mix a wide array of media to create fantasized, often ambiguous, worlds. The artists featured in Eden's Edge: Fifteen LA Artists share a perspective toward landscape and figure that investigates complex contradictions, which are inherent to life in Los Angeles and more broadly to contemporary American culture.
Eden's Edge: Fifteen LA Artists is organized by Gary Garrels, Chief Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Programs, Hammer Museum.
Eden's Edge: Fifteen LA Artists is an exploration of art made in Los Angeles during the past decade that crosses generations, mediums, and materials to link artists who create work ingrained with intensely personal visions. The exhibition features the work of 15 artists—Ginny Bishton, Mark Bradford, Liz Craft, Sharon Ellis, Matt Greene, Elliott Hundley, Stanya Kahn & Harry Dodge, Monica Majoli, Matthew Monahan, Rebecca Morales, Lari Pittman, Ken Price, Jason Rhoades, Anna Sew Hoy, and Jim Shaw—who share a dedication to craft and mix a wide array of media to create fantasized, often ambiguous, worlds. The artists featured in Eden's Edge: Fifteen LA Artists share a perspective toward landscape and figure that investigates complex contradictions, which are inherent to life in Los Angeles and more broadly to contemporary American culture.
Eden's Edge: Fifteen LA Artists is organized by Gary Garrels, Chief Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Programs, Hammer Museum.
This exhibition has been generously supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and David Teiger.
Additional support has been provided by Herta and Paul Amir, The Broad Art Foundation, Rosette Varda Delug, the Murray and Ruth Gribin Foundation, Linda and Jerry Janger, Alice and Nahum Lainer, the Pasadena Art Alliance, the Peter Norton Family Foundation, and the David Teiger Curatorial Travel Fund.
89.9 KCRW is the Official Radio Sponsor for the exhibition.
Additional support has been provided by Herta and Paul Amir, The Broad Art Foundation, Rosette Varda Delug, the Murray and Ruth Gribin Foundation, Linda and Jerry Janger, Alice and Nahum Lainer, the Pasadena Art Alliance, the Peter Norton Family Foundation, and the David Teiger Curatorial Travel Fund.
89.9 KCRW is the Official Radio Sponsor for the exhibition.
Thursday Aug 23, 7pm
Hammer Bash!
Closing Party
Featuring participating artist Jim Shaw's Into the Vacuum,
performance and film at 7pm. Cash bar and DJ Tendaji Lathan in the courtyard, 7-11pm.
Hammer Bash!
Closing Party
Featuring participating artist Jim Shaw's Into the Vacuum,
performance and film at 7pm. Cash bar and DJ Tendaji Lathan in the courtyard, 7-11pm.
Above: Matt Greene. We Beheld the Holograph of Our Second Selves (Why Did You Eat Us), 2004. Mixed media on canvas. Private Collection. Courtesy Peres Projects, Los Angeles Berlin. Inset: Monica Majoli. Hanging Rubberman #4, 2002. Watercolor and gouache on paper. Private Collection. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills.