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Rene di Rosa’s own trajectory in Northern Please see the wall labels for more information on the works di Rosa collection serves as a rich and vital distinguished themselves by an experimental Jess, Robert Duncan, and Harry Jacobus with colorful canvases.4 Hudson soon translated ceramics, was introduced to Voulkos’s work at By the mid- to late 1960s assemblage California mirrors that of the featured artists included in the exhibition. record of Northern California art since the late attitude and a disinclination to participate in the mission to present under-recognized local these investigations into welded polychrome the end of the 1950s and the moment forever had fallen out of favor (perhaps peaking with in numerous respects. Having landed in San Selected Bibliography: 1950s. It captures the distinctive spirit of the the mainstream art world, then primarily driven artists (Roy De Forest and Deborah Remington steel, while Wiley’s diverse output grew expanded his view of clay as a medium. William Seitz’s 1961 The Art of Assemblage Francisco in 1950 after attempting to write area and includes significant works by many of by Abstract Expressionism. Bruce Conner and first showed there). It helped pave the way to include sculpture, filmmaking, and Voulkos’s spontaneous pokes, cuts, rips, exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New the great American novel in Paris, di Rosa Albright, Thomas.
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