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STATE of MIND: NEW CALIFORNIA ART CIRCA 1970 February 23 – May 19, 2013 Press Preview: Thursday, February 21, 11 Am-12 Pm 1606 PASEO DE PERALTA, SANTA FE, NM 87501 SITE SANTA FE TO HOST STATE OF MIND: NEW CALIFORNIA ART CIRCA 1970 February 23 – May 19, 2013 Press Preview: Thursday, February 21, 11 am-12 pm Members’ Preview, Thursday, February 21, 5-7 pm Public Opening, Friday, February 22, 5-7 pm Curated by Constance Lewallen and Karen Moss; Co-organized by the Orange County Museum of Art and the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. The exhibition tour is organized by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York. January 10, 2013 - State of Mind is one of the three anchor exhibitions that helped chart the course of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, the ambitious collaborative initiative of the Getty with arts institutions across southern California, celebrating the birth of the L.A. art scene. Martha Rosler, First Lady (Pat Nixon), 1967–72. Courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery, New York. State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970 is an exhibition investigating seminal conceptual and related avant-garde activities in the late 1960s and 1970s which reveal the critical interchange between artists living in California. Featuring approximately 150 works by 60 artists, State of Mind explores the growth of Conceptualism and the exploration of new methodologies, technologies and sites for artistic expression in California in response to immense social change. In 1970s California, the effects of a youth oriented counter-culture, the Civil Rights Movement, the Chicano students’ protest against racism and inequality, and the Vietnam War strongly influenced the artists in this exhibition. Californian artists began freely experimenting and upending traditional forms of art in search of mediums more suitable to the concerns of the moment. Artists moved out of museums and galleries and into the streets as a form of institutional critique and aspired to create a community that fostered an exchange of radical forms and ideas. State of Mind focuses on Conceptualism’s examination of public and private space through installations, a relatively unexplored area of study, and also juxtaposes the practice of Northern and Southern Californian artists. The exhibition centers on ten themes: the Street, the Environment, Politics, Feminism, Domestic Space, Public Space, Perceptual and Psychological Space, the Body and Performance, Art about Art, Artists’ Books, and Ephemera. The exhibition showcases Conceptualism’s use of ideas, language, and systems of meaning as showcased through video, film, photography, installation, artist books, drawing, and paintings as well as extensive performance documentation and ephemera. The artists featured include a range of major international figures to lesser-known artists who nonetheless made important contributions. SITE will present State of Mind alongside two other related exhibitions, Linda Mary Montano: Always Creative and Mungo Thomson: Time, People, Money, Crickets, all running concurrently from Feb. 23-May 19, 2013. The work of performance artist Linda Montano is featured in State of Mind, while Thomson comes from a younger generation of California artists whose conceptual bent is influenced by those groundbreaking practitioners in State of Mind. See separate releases for these exhibitions. This Winter/Spring Season is made possible in part by generous support from Susan Foote & Stephen Feinberg, Joann & Gifford Phillips, Barbara & Chuck Moore, and Doris Francis & Louis Erhard. ABOUT THE CURATORS Constance M. Lewallen is adjunct curator at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive where she has curated many major exhibitions, including The Dream of the Audience: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951–1982) (2001); Everything Matters: Paul Kos, a Retrospective (2003); Ant Farm, 1968–1978 (2004); A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s (2007), all of which toured nationally and internationally and were accompanied by catalogues. In 2009 she curated Allen Ruppersberg: You and Me or the Art of Give and Take for the Santa Monica Museum of Art. Karen Moss is adjunct curator at Orange County Museum of Art, where she has curated exhibitions including 15 Minutes of Fame: Photographs from Ansel Adams to Andy Warhol (2010); Disorderly Conduct Recent Art in Tumultuous Times (2009) and Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments (2007- 2008) and co-curated the 2006 California Biennial. Moss previously held curatorial positions at the San Francisco Art Institute, Walker Art Center, Santa Monica Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Moss teaches art history and curatorial practice in graduate programs at Otis College of Art and Design and USC Roski School of Fine Arts. ARTISTS Adam II (the late Paul Cotton), Bas Jan Ader, Terry Allen, Ant Farm, Eleanor Antin, Michael Asher, John 1606 PASEO DE PERALTA, SANTA FE, NM 87501 Baldessari, Gary Beydler, Nancy Buchanan, Chris Burden, Robert Cumming, Peter d’Agostino, Lowell Darling, Guy de Cointet, Morgan Fisher, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Charles Gaines, David Hammons, Helen Mayer Harrison, Newton Harrison, Joe Hawley, Mel Henderson, Lynn Hershman, Douglas Huebler, Stephen Kaltenbach, Robert Kinmont, Paul Kos, Suzanne Lacy, Stephen Laub, William Leavitt, Fred Lonidier, Mike Mandel, Tom Marioni, Paul McCarthy, Jim Melchert, Susan Mogul, Linda Mary Montano, Bruce Nauman, Martha Rosler, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha, Sam’s Cafe, Darryl Sapien, Ilene Segalove, Allan Sekula, Bonnie Ora Sherk, Alexis Smith, Barbara T. Smith, T.R. Uthco, Ger van Elk, William Wegman, John Woodall, Alfred Young, Asco (Glugio “Gronk” Nicandro, Patssi Valdez, Willie Herrón III, Harry Gamboa Jr.), George Bolling, Allan Kaprow EXHIBITION CATALOGUE The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive publication that offers a comprehensive study of a time when California became a vibrant center for original art and exhibition making, and should be essential for anyone interested in contemporary art. The publication offers itself as an extensive source of rare primary images and fundamental essays by co-curators Constance M. Lewallen and Karen Moss, Julia Bryan-Wilson, and Anne Rorimer. $39.95, Hardcover. ISBN: 9780520270619. Published by UC Press. 2011. 296 pages. CREDIT LINE State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970 is curated by Constance Lewallen and Karen Moss and co-organized by the Orange County Museum of Art and the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. The tour is organized by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York, and is made possible, in part, by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Video Data Bank, Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), and with the generous support of Robert Redd, LLC and the ICI Board of Trustees. ABOUT ICI Independent Curators International (ICI) connects emerging and established curators, artists, and institutions to forge international networks and generate new forms of collaboration through the production of exhibitions, events, publications, and curatorial training. Headquartered in New York, the organization provides public access to the people and practices that are key to current developments in curating and exhibition-making around the world, inspiring fresh ways of seeing and contextualizing contemporary art. Since it was established in 1975, ICI has worked with over 1,000 curators and 3,700 artists from 47 countries worldwide. Since 2010, 13 ICI exhibitions have been presented by 83 venues in 27 countries profiling the work of over 613 artists worldwide; 134 curators and artists from the U.S. and abroad have contributed to ICI’s talks programs, online journal, and conferences; and 165 curators from 39 countries and 19 U.S. states have participated in the Curatorial Intensives. For more information about the exhibition, please contact Mandy Sa at 212.254.8200 x121 or at [email protected] ABOUT SITE Santa Fe SITE Santa Fe is located at 1606 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501. Hours: Thursday and Saturday, 10 AM–5 PM; Friday, 10 AM–7 PM; Sunday, 12 PM–5 PM; closed Monday-Wednesday. Open Wednesdays in July and August. Museum admission is $10 for adults and $5 for students, teachers, and seniors; members are free. Free admission is offered on Fridays, made possible by a grant from The Brown Foundation, Inc., Houston. Tours by SITE Guides are available free of charge to the public. SITE Santa Fe gift certificates are available. Call 505.989.1199 for more information. Contact Anne Wrinkle, Director of External Affairs, SITE Santa Fe, [email protected], 505.989.1199 x 22 ### .
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