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How a $185,000 grant fund will support arts programming in Orange County
Artist Aria Dean looks through the work of another artist Fred Eversley, “untitled parabolic lens.” Thousands attend Frieze 2020 in Los Angeles, Calif., Feb. 12, 2020.
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By Vera CastanedaStaff Writer
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A portion of funds from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts have reached Orange County once again.
Among 50 museums and arts organizations,
Laguna Art Museum are spring 2021 grant recipients. The funds will support administrative expenses, programs, exhibitions and curatorial research.
“We are pleased to support three exceptional institutions in Orange County,” said Rachel Bers, program director of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, in a statement. “Their programs and exhibitions provide an important platform for artists to engage with local communities, while upholding the foundation’s belief that artists have significant
For Agnes Pelton, painting was a profound means for contemplation. Hers and ours.
Take “Messengers,” which centers on a luminous, vase-like translucent vessel floating in a dusky sky above a stylized, silhouetted mountain range. A light blue orb rises behind the mountains and before a pale wash of color, which steadily climbs to become a deep purple plane. Eight soft violet lights glow along the upper edge above six bright, golden palm fronds draped across the vessel’s top.
The painting is among the finest in “Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist,” a lovely exhibition at the Palm Springs Art Museum. It dates from 1932, amid the most productive period of the artist’s more than four-decade career.
Bonhams to offer works of art from the Estate of Yvonne de Chavigny Segerstrom
Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) Yawl in the Channel 22 x 37 in (55.9 x 94 cm), Painted in 1974-75. Estimate: $700,000-$1,000,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY
.- Twenty-four works from The Estate of Yvonne de Chavigny Segerstrom will be sold in Bonhams auctions in New York and Los Angeles, from April through November 2021. Leading the group is Fairfield Porters (1907-1975) Yawl in the Channel, a magnificent landscape which will highlight the American Art Sale in New York on May 20. The painting is estimated at $700,000-1,000,000.
This masterwork by Porter, one of the leading representational American painters of the mid-20th century, was painted in the final two years of his life. The colorful landscape presents the artists mature painterly technique while still imbuing his own emotion, thoughts, and feelings into the work. The painting is a fantastic example of his commitment to a direct approach t
David Zwirner opens an exhibition of works by William Eggleston and John McCracken
Installation view, William Eggleston and John McCracken: True Stories, David Zwirner, New York, March 9 April 24, 2021. Courtesy David Zwirner.
NEW YORK, NY
.-David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of works by William Eggleston and John McCrackenthe first time these two iconic American artists have been featured together. On view at the gallerys East 69th Street location in New York, True Stories places Eggleston and McCracken into dialogue around their expressive use of color and light, and their distinct versions of American vernacular culture.
Born within five years of one anotherMcCracken in Berkeley, California, in 1934, and Eggleston in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1939the two artists came of age outside of the dominant centers of the art world, internalizing the spaces and light of the American West and South. Working in sculpture and photography, respectively, each would go on to