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HammerProjects are madepossible with support from The HoraceW. Goldsmith Foundation,the AnnenbergFoundation, Fox Entertainment Group'sArts DevelopmentFee, the Los AngelesCounty Arts Commission,members of the HammerCircle, and the DavidTeiger CuratorialTravel Fund.

,,. Angela Dufresne'sLarge canvases depict fantastical Land­ Romaniantwin brothers Gert and UweTobias create Large­ scapes populatedby strange moderniststructures. Dufresne's scalewoodcuts and sculpturalconstructions. They use t e dark brushstrokes,painted with a Loose,frenetic energy, add to the mythologiesand historyof their native Transylvaniaa! ' their sense of alienation and anxiety her compositionsproduce, subject, bringingage-old folktales and imageryinto th realm yet they also translate the forward-Lookingidealism espoused of the present. The prints and sculpturesmake referen ·e not by modernist architects LikeLe Corbusierand Frank Lloyd only to skulls and monsters, but also to modern g aphic Wright.She presentsutopias gone awryin colorschemes that design, ancient ceramicforms , camp Hollywoodhorro ~films, range from vividacidic hues to morenatural earthy tones. and abstract imagery.The artists' multi-mediainstall tions explorethe wayin whichLegends are formedand howo 1ects GalleryTalk stimulate cultural memory. Angela Dufresne Thursday,September 14, 7pm

KendellCarter is a recent graduate" from CaliforniaState flimlllri!D~•-m-mmgg University, Long Beach. His installations bring tooether Christine Nguyen'sworks on paper are influenced by the elementsof urbanstreet culture,modernist architectu e, and artist's memories,Landscape imagery, and imaginedvisions. textile and furnituredesign, funnelingthese disparate refer­ She combinesa varietyof mediaand photographicprocesses ences into the domain of the museumgallery. Camo fl.age, to create multilayeredforms that move freely from repre­ brand-nameclothing, and three-dimensional,chrome- )lated sentation to abstraction. Her compositionsinclude natural graffitishare spacewith century-oldtoile designsand molded elementsLike trees, rivers, and whimsicalanimals along with wainscoting.Carter blends and reshufflesthe culturali enti­ fanciful boats and villages, all of which seem to exist in a ties of objects and materials, seeking to create a diaLogue universewith its own secret Logicand energy. aroundtheir use and significancein contemporaryso o' ety. GalleryTalk GalleryTalk Christine Nguyen Kendell Carter Thursday,November 16, 6pm CLOCKWISE, FROM TOP LEFT, ANGELA DUFRESNE . THE DOUBLE DECKER RANDOM PLAY Thursday,November 30, 6pm RESIDENCE T3000 BARKLEY BY ROLAND MUTANTES SOMEWHERE IN WOULD BE BAVARIA JUNE 2006, 2006 (DETAIL). OIL ON CANVAS. COURTESY OF MONYA ROWE GALLERY, NEW YORK. GERT & UWE TOBIAS . HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS, 2004 . COLORED WOODCUT ON PAPER. COURTESY GALERIE MICHAEL JANSSEN , COLOGNE. KEN DELL CARTER. HOMMIE, 2006. MIXED MEDIA. INSTALLATION AT THE WERBY GALLERY, CALIFORN IA STATE UN IVERSITY, LONG BEACH. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST. CHR ISTINE NGUYEN . MIGRATION OVER THE WOODS AND ITS STRANGE POWERS, 2006 (DETAIL). C-PRINTS ON WOOD. INSTALLATION AT THE HAMMER MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES . COURTESY OF THE ARTIST.

6 7 HAMMER EXHIBITIONS HAMMER PRESENTS

Mourning BecomesElectric: Bruce Wagner'sMemorial and James Ellroy's The Black DahUa An evening of readings by the authors and Dana Delany Saturday, September 30, 7pm

Dana Delany has starred in the Broadwayproduction A Life, has won two EmmyAwards for her best-actress role in the popular television series China Beach, and has received acclaim for many off-Broadway productions, Aernout Mik: Refraction television shows, and films, including Thirtysomething, September 12 - December31, 2006 Pasadena, Light Sleeper, Tombstone, and The L Word. Delanyappears on the NBCtelevision drama Kidnapped. Aernout Mikis known for video installations that not only stage narratives On Catastrophe James Ellroy'sLA quartet novels-The Black Dahlia, The based on imagined catastrophes, but also present ambiguous causes and Steven Johnson & Big Nowhere,LA Confidential,and WhiteJazz-were inter­ effects. His surreal, semi-apocalyptic scenarios comment on the frequent national bestsellers. His other acclaimed titles include Dr. Ralph Frerichs inability of humans to respond instinctively and individually to monumental AmericanTabloid, his memoirMy Dark Places , and his most Tuesday,October 24, 7pm disasters. Refraction,an approximately 30-minute, three-screen video projec­ recent novel, The ColdSix Thousand. The film version of tion, shows the aftermath of a bus accident in the Romanian countryside. Author Steven Johnson (Everything The Black Dahlia, directed by Brian De Palma, will be Police and rescue workersswarm over the accident site, digging at rubble and Bad is GoodFor You and Emergence: released this year. scouring the interior of the bus. Trafficbecomes congested on the highway, The ConnectedLives of Ants, Brains, Bruce Wagner's acclaimed Cellular Trilogy-I'm Losing causing curious motorists to leave their cars and take part in the scene. Cities, and Software) speaks with You, I'll Let You Go, and Still Holding-have been among infectious disease expert Dr. Ralph Mik's practice straddles the boundaries between sculpture, performance,archi­ The New YorkTimes's notable books, and the Los Angeles Frerichs,founder of UCLA'sEpidemi­ tecture, and video. In Refraction, Mikuses elaborate staging and a large cast Times's Best Fiction. His novel Memorialwas published ology Department,about the London to address themes that have come to characterize his oeuvre: chaos, insecurity, in September2006. Hisprevious novel, TheChrysanthemum Choleraoutbreak of 1854. This dev­ violence, and indifference. Palace,was a PEN/Faulknerfinalist for fiction. astating event, which claimed the Aernout Mik:Refraction is part of the Three M Project-a series by the Hammer Museum, lives of hundreds of Londoners,set Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York to commission, organize, and co-present new works of art. the course for disaster response in Generous support for the series has been provided by the Peter Norton Family Foundation modern cities. and the American Center Foundation.

Aernout Mik:Refraction also received support from the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, ABOVE, AERNOUT MIK. REFRACTION,2005 (DETA IL). ABOVE, LEFT TO RIGHT, BRUCE WAGNER (PHOTO, JESSE DYLAN). DANA DELANY. and The Consulate General of The Netherlands in New York. VIDEO STILL. COURTESY THE ARTIST. JAMES ELLROY (PHOTO, MAR ION ETILINGER) . RIGHT, EDIE SEDGWICK (PHOTO , JOHN PALMER) .

8 9 HAMMERforum HAMMERconversations This ongoing series of timely, thought-provoking events This ongoing series pairs creative thinkers from a range of disciplines for addresses current social and political issues. engaging, provocative discussions on culture, science, and the arts. HammerForum is made possible, in part, by ErikaGlazer.

BarbaraKruger & GeorgeLakoff Saturday, October 21, 7pm BarbaraKruger is an acclaimedartist whose recognizablestyle combinesimages and text addressing cultural representations of power, identity, and sexuality and challenges stereotypes and cliches. Krugerhas won many awards and has taught at the California Institute of the Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the University of California, Berkeley. George Lakoffis Richard and Rhonda Goldman Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of many influential WolfgangTillmans & MarkWigley books on political discourse including MoralPolitics : How Sunday, September 17, 4pm Liberalsand ConservativesThink; Women, Fire , and Dangerous Things: What CategoriesReveal About The Mind; and, most Wolfgang Tillmans studied at the Bournemouth & Poole recently, Whose Freedom?:The Battle over America's Most Collegeof Art in Dorset, and Livesand works in London. He Important Idea. won the prestigious Turner Prize in 2000 and has exhibited his work internationally in solo exhibitions at such museums as Tate Modern, London;the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and the Deichtorhallen, Hamburg. MarkWigley is Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at ColumbiaUniversity . He is the author of many books on architecture, design, and fashion. Most recently, he contributed essays to the exhibition cata­ logues WolfgangTillmans and Skin+ Bones: ParallelPractices in Fashion and Architecture. Wigley has also organized exhibitions on architecture at the Museum of Modern Art, NewYork; the Witte de With, Rotterdam; and the Canadian BARBARA KRUGER (PHOTO, ANNIE LEIBOVITZ). GEORGELAKOFF (PHOTO, ©BART NAGEL). Center of Architecture, Montreal. ABOVE LEFT, WOLFGANGTILLMANS (PHOTO,JASON SCHMIDT, COURTESYOF ART+ AUCTION). MARK WIGLEY (PHOTO, COURTESY OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GSAPP).

10 11 21 Sat 7pm HammerConversations 16 Thu 6pm HammerProjects: GalleryTalk Calendar Barbara Kruger & George Lakoff Christine Nguyen

of events 24 Tue 7pm Discussion:On Catastrophe 30 Thu 6pm HammerProjects: GalleryTalk Ralph Frerichs & Steven Johnson Kendell Carter

29 Sun 6pm HammerReadings: NewAmerican Writing 30 Thu 7pm HammerLectures: Aperture West HammerMuseum programs HammerMembers receive Listen to Hammer Podcaists Yannick Murphy & Lynne Tillman William Christenberry are FREEto the public. priority seating at programs. at www.kcet.org/podcasts ] l NOVEMBER DECEMBER SEPTEMBER 13 Fri 9am UCLAArt HistoryGraduate Student Symposium 3 Fri 7pm HammerScreenings: Freewaves 5 Tue 7pm HammerForum: Religion and Politics On Love Too Much Freedom? Katherine Yurica & Barry F. Seidman 14 Thu 7pm HammerProjects: GalleryTalk Angela Dufresne 14 Sat 7pm HammerForum 4 Sat 7pm HammerScreenings: Freewaves 7 Thu 7pm HammerReadings : Poetry Darfur/Darfur Too Much Freedom? Joshua Clover 17 Sun 4pm HammerConversations Wolfgang Tillmans & Mark Wigley 18 Wed 7pm HammerLectures: Aperture West 5 Sun 12pm Sunday Afternoons for Kids 10 Sun 12pm Sunday Afternoons for Kids Nicholas Kahn & Richard Selesnick Jordan Roter DIVHoliday Party 24 Sun 6pm HammerReadings : NewAmerican Writing Bret Easton Ellis 19 Thu 7pm HammerLectures: UCLADepartment of Art 5 Sun 6pm HammerReadings : NewAmerican Writing 12 Tue 7pm HammerReadings: Some Favorite Writers Marcia Tucker Ngugi wa Thiong'o & Sesshu Foster Chang-Rae Lee 26 Tue 7pm HammerReadings Stuart Ewen 8 Wed 7pm Panel Discussion JANUARY LA Forum for Architecture & Urban Design 30 Sat 7pm HammerPresents : MourningBecomes Electric 5 Fri 7pm WolfgangTillmans Bruce Wagner, Dana Delany, & James Ellroy 9 Thu 7pm HammerReadings: Poetry Hammer Bash Stephen Burt OCTOBER 11 Thu 7pm HammerScreenings 11Sat7pm HammerPresents a.k.a. Nikki S. Lee 1 Sun 12pm Sunday Afternoons for Kids Edie Speaks Jona Frank 12 Sun 6pm HammerReadings: NewAmerican Writing Free weekly talks and tours 1 Sun 6pm HammerReadings : NewAmerican Writing I Henri Cole T. Cooper & Adam Mansbach ) LunchtimeArt Talksare held every Wednesdayat 12:30pm. 14 Tue 7pm HammerReadings These brief discussions focus on works of art on view or in 3 Tue 7pm HammerReadings : Some Favorite Writers Nahid Rachlin the collections. For more details, see page 19. Robert Cohen 15 Wed 7pm HammerReadings Join HammerMuseum educators for free tours of special exhibitions Tuesdaysat 1pm and Thursdaysat 1pm & 6pm. 12 Thu 7pm HammerReadings: Poetry Roz Chast Jay Wright Public programs are made possible, in part, by the Annenberg Foundation, with additional

GERT AND UWE TOBIAS. UNTITLED, 2006. COLORED WOODCUT ON PAPER. support from Laura Donnelley-Morton,Bronya and AndrewGalef, and ErikaGlazer. COURTESY GALER IE MICHAEL JANSSEN, COLOGNE. HAMMER READINGS

Stuart Ewen Tuesday,September 26 , 7pm Stuart Ewen's latest work, Typecasting,explores the science behind unconsciousjudgments and the resulting racial, crim­ inal, and popular stereotypes that have become a cultural practice. Ewen has written several influential books on Americanconsumerism, which include Captainsof Conscious­ ness: Advertisingand the Social Roots of ConsumerCulture. Some FavoriteWriters New AmericanWriting Nahid Rachlin A series of literary readings organized by Mona Simpson, A series of contemporaryfiction and poetry readingsorganized YannickMurphy & Lynne Tillman Tuesday,November 14, 7pm author of AnywhereBut Here, The Lost Father,A RegularGuy, by BenjaminWeissman, author of two books of short fiction, Sunday, October29, 6pm Iranian-born Nahid Rachlin lives in the US, where she has and Off KeckRoad. 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She has been a finalist for the National Book Sunday, September 24, 6pm Critics CircleAward and is the author of many novels as well Roz (hast Robert Cohen is the author of the novels The OrganBuilder, The Here and Now, and Inspired Sleep. His work has been Bret Easton Ellisis the LosAngeles-born author of the cult­ as collections of short stories and essays. Wednesday,November 15, 7pm awardedthe WhitingWriters' Award, the LilaWallace-Reader's classics Less than Zero, American Psycho, and The Rules of Since she sold her first cartoon to The New Yorkerin 1978, Digest Writers' Award, the Harold U. Ribalow Prize, and a Attraction. He reads from Lunar Park, his recent semi-auto­ Roz (hast has delighted the masses by exposing the many Ngugi wa Thiong'o & Sesshu Foster Pushcart Prize, and has appeared in numerous publications. biographicalwork that interweavestrue-life experienceswith Sunday, November5 , 6pm idiosyncrasies of modern life. 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17 HAMMER LECTURES UCLASymposium On Love Join Hammercurators each week for 41st Annual UCLAArt History Graduate Student Symposium LunchtimeArt Talks insightful, 15-minutes talks about works Wednesdaysat 12:30pm Friday, October 13, 9am- 5pm of art on display and from the collections. Organized by the UCLAArt History Graduate Student Asso­ ciation, the symposiumbrings together emerging scholars to share their research on an aspect of the visual arts relevant to a selected theme. This year the symposium addresses love in the visual arts with a keynote lecture by George Baker, Assistant Professor of Art Historyat UCLA,critic for Artforum magazine, and an editor of Octobermagazine and October books. For more information on the participants and the schedule of events, please visit www.hammer.ucla.edu.

Aperture West Lecture September 13 September 20 September 27 October 4 Panel Discussion Gert & UweTobias's Aernout Mik's John Singer Sargent's Christine Nguyen's Los Angeles Forumfor Nicholas Kahn & Richard Selesnick Wednesday, October18 , 7pm HammerProject, 2006 Refraction,2005 Dr.Pozzi at Home, 1881 HammerProject, 2006 Architecture and Urban Design Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick were born in NewYork Wednesday,November 8, 7pm City and London, respectively. Their work has been exhibited The publication of Zoe Crosher's monograph, Out the Window: internationally and is in many important permanent collec­ LAX, marks the relaunch of the architectural journal series tions, including the BrooklynMuseum of Art, the LosAngeles ForumPamphlets . Crasher, whose images document planes County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, arriving and departing at LAXas seen through motel and and the Smithsonian Institution. hotel windows,joins writers Norman Klein, Pico Iyer, and urbanist Doug Suisman for a discussion on the evolution of UCLARegents ' Lecture the built environment, moderated by LA Forum Director of MarciaTucker Pamphlets Tom Marble. Thursday, October19 , 7pm Founded in 1987, the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Marcia Tucker is a freelance writer, art critic, and lecturer. Design is a non-profit organization dedicated to the support of October 11 October 18 October 25 November1 She was the founding director of the New Museum of innovative architecture and urbanism using the city of Los Angeles as Marsand Venus(anonymous, Emile Bernard's Gustave Moreau's Richard Tuttle's a Laboratory. Please visit www.Laforum.org for more information. Contemporary Art, New York, from 1977 to 1999. She is after Rosso Fiorentino), 1575 Wheat Harvest,1889 Salome DancingBefore Colors,1997 currently Distinguished Visiting Professor at Otis College of LEFT ZOE CROSHER. Herod,1876 LAX RADISSON, 2001. Art+ Design. LIGHTJET PRINT MOUNTED ON ALUMINUM. COURTESY This Lecture is made possible by the University of California Regents DCKT CONTEMPORARY, and the UCLADepartment of Art. NYC. ABOVE, WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY. THE BAR-B-Q INN , Aperture West Lecture GREENSBORO, ALABAMA, 1971. PHOTOGRAPH. WilliamChristenberry (PHOTO, COURTESY Thursday, November 30, 7pm APERTURE). A pioneerof Americancolor photography,William Christe nberry has plumbed regional identity of the American South since the early 1960s. Beginning in 1968, Christenberry returned annually to photograph distinctive locations of his native November8 November15 November29 December6 Hale County, Alabama. These works were published for the WolfgangKi lian's Festivitiesin Domenicodel Barbiere's Kendell Carter's DarrylCurran's first time in a self-titled collection in April 2006. Nurem b erg ... , c. 1649 Skeletons and Ecorches,c. 1550 Hammer Project, 2006 Priests in a Temple,1967 The Aperture West Collaborative Series is generously supported by Freestyle Photographic Supplies. 18 19 HAMMER COLLECTIONS

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Hammer Fellows Dinner Hammer Fellows and special guests enjoyed the annual Fellowsdinner at MonicaBonvicini's installation in Pasadena for West of Rome, a series of site-specific artists' projects organizedby EmiFontana . Highlightsof the evening included an engaging tour and discussion of the installation with HammerSenior CuratorGary Garrels, Fontana, and Bonvicini followed by cocktails and dinner catered by The Kitchenfor ExploringFoods . For more information about the HammerFellows , please call A Fine Experiment: The Armand HammerCollection Sarah Stifler at 310-443-7046. A Tribute to Robert Heinecken A selection of paintings and workson paper from the A mand HammerCollection is permanently on view and provi es an FROM TOP, LEFT TO RIGHT HAMMER PROJECTSCURATOR JAMES ELAINE WITH MICHAEL September12 - December31, 2006 GOLD; DAVID WASSERMAN, LANA BILZERIAN, AND MICHAEL FLANAGAN;TOUR OF Robert Heinecken (1931-2006) left a significant mark on impressiveoverview of the major movementsof 19th-c~ntury INSTALLATIONLEO BY GARYGARRELS, EMI FONTANA, AND MONICA BONVICINI; LIBBY KAUPER, ERIN WRIGHT, AND BETTINA KOREK; MIKE KELLEY, KATHRYNGARCIA, the world of photography, as an artist, teacher, curator, and Frenchart. Portraitureand landscape both figure promi ently AND EMI FONTANA. collector. While forming the department of photography at in the collectionin addition to a small but wide-ranginggroup UCLA,he had the foresightto build a resourcefulphotography of European old master paintings and works by Am,erican collection for his students at the GrunwaldCenter for the artists from the 18th to 20th centuries. Graphic Arts. This exhibition celebrates Heinecken and his collection of works by such artists as WalkerEvans, Imogen Franklin D. MurphySculpture Garden Cunningham,Garry Winogrand, Heinecken himself, and many One of the most distinguished outdoor sculpture collettions of his students. in the country, the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture arden This exhibition was organized by CarolynPeter, Directorof the Laband spans more than five acres on UCLA'scampus with o er 70 Art Gallery,Loyola Marymount University, and former Associate Curator sculptures. at the HammerMuseum. Video Libraryand Viewing Room GrunwaldCenter for the GraphicArts Dedicatedto the study of video art, the VideoLibrary o rollec­ The GrunwaldCenter's holdings comprise more than 45,000 tion features seminal worksfrom the late 1960s to the 980s works on paper dating from the Renaissanceto the present. as well a selection of Hammerpublic programs. The Uibrary A primaryresource for teaching and research,the Centerserves is available to all visitors during regular Museumha ms. UCLAstudents and faculty and the public. Call310-443-7078 ABOVE, LEWIS BALTZ. NEW INDUSTRIALPARKS . 1974 . GELATIN SILVER PRINT. to schedule an appointment. COLLECTIONOF THE GRUNWALDCENTER FOR THE GRAPHIC ARTS. UCLA HAMME MUSEUM. PURCHASEDWITH FUNDS PROVIDEDBY THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENTF OR THE ARTS AND THE KRESS FOUNDATION, WASHINGTON,DC .

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Thanksto Our Members& Supporters We are grateful to numerous individuals, foundations, corporations, and govern­ ment agencies for their crucial support of the Hammer'sacclaimed exhibitions, program series, and special projects. Thanks also to the generosity of our donors and members, the HammerMuseum is able to continue offering a full slate of free public programs.

We thank the following for their generous support of the Hammer $5,000-$9,999 Museumbetween January 1 and July 31, 2006: The Brotman Foundation of California,The Greenberg Foundation, Mary and Robert Looker, Merle and Gerald Measer, Nimoy Foundation, $100,000+ ParamountVantage , and anonymous donors The Annenberg Foundation, Lloyd E. Cotsen, J. David Haft Family,The James Irvine Foundation, Wernerand Sarah-AnnKramarsky, Eileen Harris $1,000-$4,999 Vija Celmins:A DrawingsRetrospective Norton, Patrick Painter, Peter Norton FamilyFoundation, DavidTeiger Roy H. Aaron and Linda Carpenter, Leonard Apt, Ray Azoulayand Kirk January28 - April 22, 2007 Blaschke,Lynne and LouisBabier , PamelaBerg, Ellenand TomCalcaterra, Vija Celmins:A DrawingsRetrospective has been organized by Jonas $50,000-$99,999 Philippa Calnan, Nancy Chaikin, Cherry and Martin, Zoe and Donald Storsve, Curator at the Centre GeorgesPompidou, Paris where it will be The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., The Broad Art Cosgrove, DarrylCurran, Bill Damaschke and John Mcilwee, Euniceand Hal on view October 25, 2006, through January 8, 2007, under the title Foundation, Edythe and Eli Broad, The Buddy Taub Foundation, Fox David, Hunter Drohojowska-Philpand David Philp, Ann and WillliamP. Vija Celmins,/'Oeuvre dessine. Entertainment Group, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, LLWW Edwards,Mandy and CliffEinstein, Judy BurnsFishman and ArnieFishman, The HammerMuseum's presentation is made possible, in part, by Foundation, MetLifeFoundation, Ann and Jerry Moss,L ynda and Stewart Betty Freeman, Barbaraand MichaelGamson, Eileen and RichardGarson, Susan and LarryMarx and Sotheby's, with additional support from the Resnick,Wolfen Family Foundation Lindaand Bob Gersh, Susan and DavidGersh, DorothyGoldeen, 13arbara DavidTeiger CuratorialTravel Fund. Goldenberg, Marion and Ernest Goldenfeld, Homeira and Arnold $25,000-$49,999 Goldstein, Lenore and Bernard Greenberg, Bobbie and Bob Gre,enfield, DavidBohnett, Rosette Delug,Laura Donnelley-Morton, George Freeman, Agnes Gund and DanielShapiro, Ann Harmsen,Ruth Hayward,Elizabeth Mathias Poledna LarryGagosian, Gagosian Gallery, Bronya and AndrewGalef, Harriett and and Gunter Herman, Robert Hollander, The J. Paul Getty Trust, Kathleen January28 - April 22, 2007 RichardGold, Lindaand Jerry Janger, KBHome, Alice and NahumLainer, Kennedyand FrankMarshall, Phyllis and John Kleinberg,Bettina , Korek, Travisand Tom Kranz,Sandra Krause and WilliamFitzgerald, Betty and The exhibition is organized by Russell Ferguson,Deputy Directorof Eugenio Lopez, Los Angeles County Arts Commission,Susan and Larry Exhibitionsand Programsand Chief Curator,Hammer Museum. Marx, Morris and Julia Gold Charitable Foundation, Heidi and Erik Maury Leonard, Joan and Stuart Levin, Nancy and Myron Levi , Burt Murkoff,Murray and Ruth Gribin Foundation, NewLine Cinema, Gail and Levitch, Vickiand Kent Logan, Louis Stern Fine Arts, MarciaGoldenfeld Mathias Polednais part of the Three M Project-a series by the Jerry Oppenheimer,Lee and Lawrence Ramer,Michael Rubel, Ronnie and Maiten, Deborahand Joseph Mannis,Stavros Merjos,Cindy Miscikowski HammerMuseum, Los Angeles;the Museumof ContemporaryArt, VidalSassoon, Christina and MarkSiegel, Sotheby's, Susan Steinhauser and Doug Ring, Joy and Jerry Monkarsh, John Morace and Thomas Chicago;and the NewMuseum of ContemporaryArt, NewYork to commission, organize, and co-present new works of art. and Daniel Greenberg, Marisaand Jeremy Zimmer Kennedy, Joan and Frederick Nicholas, Susan and Leonard Nimoy, Northern Trust Bank, Marti and Tony Oppenheimer,Joan Palevsky, Edie The exhibition is supported, in part, by the Austrian Cultural Forum $10,000-$ 24,999 and Robert Parker,Tina Petra and KenWong, Jennie Preborand Frederick NewYork. Fisher, Dallas Price-Van Bredaand Bob Van Breda, Bill Resnickand Doug Herta and Paul Amir,Art for Arts Sake, Mariaand Bill Bell, Barbara and Cordell, Marc Richards, Robert MondaviWinery, Richard Rogers, Marc ABOVE, VIJA CELMINS. WEB #5, 2000. CHARCOAL ON PAPER. PRIVATE COLLECTION. Peter Benedek, Mrs. Sidney F. Brody,Deutsche Bank, Erika Glazer,The Selwyn,Sidney Stern MemorialTrust , Jane Siegal, Jennifer and Manfred COURTESY MCKEE GALL ERY, NEW YORK. Graham Foundationfor AdvancedStudies in the Fine Arts, Alan Hergott Simchowitz,Julie and BarrySmooke, Sandra and Art Soares, Lisa Specht, and Curt Shepard, Gail and Stanley Hollander, The Judith Rothschild Janna and Jack Stern, Beth Swofford, Chip Tom and Michael Rabkin, Foundation,Lillian and Jon Lovelace,Margo Leavin Gallery, Steve Martin, Deborahand DavidTrainer , Elinorand RubinTurner, Gordon VeneKlasen, Brenda Potter and MichaelSandler, Showtime Networks,Inc., Catharine Ellen and MarcVinciguerra, Patricia and RichardWaldron, Jill and John and Jeffrey Soros, Sports Club/ LA, Kathinka and John Tunney, Andrea Walsh,Sheila and WalterWeisman, Gloria Werner, Joni MoisantWeyland and John Van de Kamp Sidney B. Felsen, MiriamWosk, Bobbi and WalterZifkin

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