Paul McCarthy's Low Life Slow Life: Part 2
CCA Wattis Institute
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- Event has passed (Thu Feb 7, 2008 - Sat May 30, 2009)
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- Galleries, Arts & Crafts
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Paul McCarthy's Low Life Slow Life is a two-part exhibition curated by the acclaimed Los Angeles–based artist Paul McCarthy. It presents a diverse range of artists and artworks related to McCarthy's memories of his own career.The first part, presented in 2008, investigated his student years in Salt Lake City and San Francisco during the 1960s. This second part focuses on his years in Los Angeles from 1970 to the present, with an emphasis on the emergence of alternative performance practices, Conceptual art, and video art. Lacking a definite chronological starting point, however, it follows some of its thematic trajectories back to the 1950s.
McCarthy's curatorial selections are eclectic and unconventional, deriving more from his personal recollections than from any historical, objective measure of artistic influence. Low Life Slow Life: Part 2 features works by Walt Disney, Howard Fried, Rachel Khedoori, Les Levine, Dennis Oppenheim, and Lil Picard...
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