Artists and writers reflect on domestic exhibition spaces in Los Angeles, from 1940 to the present
Since the dawn of the 20th century, artists pursuing their dreams in Los Angeles have found a city rich in creative possibilities but often short on creative infrastructure. In response, they’ve built their own, tucked away in the abundant private homes, apartments and gardens of the city’s fertile plain. Exhibitions in closets, bathrooms and garden sheds are amongst the most interesting in a metropolis increasingly at the centre of the globalized art world. Charting a partial map of these domestic spaces over the past 80 years, this special section looks into what architectural historian Reyner Banham called, in
In the Abbott Hill House by Louis Wasserman and Associates, a family's creative use of economical materials makes their net-zero Los Angeles home undeniably their own.