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Charles Arnoldi | Four Decades
January 21 – April 4, 2020

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Instagram post 2317777177822005314_234118632 We are missing the art currently hanging on the Fisher walls, so we thought we would share one of our favorites. This is "Quake" 💙💛❤️ which is hung in the center gallery. In the late 1960s, @chuckarnoldi abandoned oil painting for non-traditional materials and new working methodologies. He established for himself a unique vocabulary and practice, and his location in Southern California played a large role in this evolution. He has said: "Out here we were free to follow our eyes, we didn't owe anyone—it wasn't New York." And he was not alone, his radical departure in materials (using wood branched to create large-scale dimensional works) was well in line with a Los Angeles art scene already awash in the rule-breaking materials and activities of the #Assemblage and #LightandSpace artists. . . . credit: Charles Arnoldi, Quake, 1981, Acrylic on sticks, Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. #uscfishermuseum #chuckarnoldi #charlesarnoldi #venicebeachartscene #socal #sticks #abstractart
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Instagram post 2317111400076831431_234118632 Today is the unofficial start to summer! ☀️🌭💛 We know this #memorialdayweekend hasn’t looked or felt the way it usually does, but we are welcoming summer the best way we can at the moment, by donning our cutest vintage swimsuit and cooling off with an inflatable kiddie pool at home! 🦩 . How are you welcoming the summer? 🐚🌈🍒🌽🧉🚴🏾‍♀️ . . . . credit: Kelly Wise, “Untitled (children holding maillot between them), 1975, Silver gelatin print, Gift of Andrew Schwartz, © Kelly Wise #uscfishermuseum #permanentcollection #kellywise #photography #bandwphotography #summer #museumvacation #swimsuit
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Instagram post 2314882185155805157_234118632 😘 . . . . . . Elsa Flores, "Untitled (Kiss)," 1996, Woodblock print, Dr. Eugene Rogolsky Collection. #uscfishermuseum #museumfromhome #elsaflores #chicana #woodblockprint #kissing #blue #angels
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Instagram post 2314052313411992507_234118632 Artist #FandraChang was born in Taipei, Taiwan, educated at @artcenteredu, and lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work looks at the social order and its promises and failures. In this work "End of Horizons," the social structure is embodied by a literal structure: the tract house. Her digitally manipulated world depicts a carefully ordered utopia⁠—or is it a dystopia? 🏠🏠🏠 . Although the American Dream of owning one's home is made (somewhat) manifest through such housing developments, the uniformity of the endless rows of two-story dingbat bungalows discourages individuality. In fact, pushed to its logical extreme, it suggests an oppressive homogeneity. Taken from a stock clip-art photograph (itself an example of anonymity), Chang has transformed the image on her computer, creating a visual display of order that corresponds to the social order that such tract homes encapsulate and perpetuate. (caption taken from the catalogue for 'Insatiable Desires' USC Fisher Museum 2005) . . #uscfishermuseum #art #photography #photomanipulation #tracthouses #repetion #fandrachang #museumfromhome #fisherfromhome
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Instagram post 2312696949936271214_234118632 Yesterday during our Fisher staff Zoom meeting, one staff member was wearing eye makeup and another had on dangly earrings!! Compared to the rest of us, they were definitely giving off the #vibes of this guy on the left. 💅💁🏽‍♀️👏 . What item of clothing, makeup, or accessories makes you feel dressed up these days? . The artist of this work, Willem Pietersz Buytewech the Elder, working at the start of the Dutch Golden Age, was considered one of the first Dutch artists to depict fun through group paintings featuring "dandies, fashionable ladies, topers, and lusty wenches." This category of painting is now known as the "Merry Company." . . 🖼️: Willem Pietersz Buytewech, the Elder, "The Gay Party," ca. 1610 - 1620, Oil on panel, Gift of the Armand Hammer Foundation. #uscfishermuseum #permanentcollection #dutchgoldenage #Buytewechtheelder #partyscene #merrycompany #fisherfromhome #museumfromhome #dutchmaster

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