Category Archives: Conceptual Art

Art Pick – Collaboration Labs: Southern California Artists and the Artist Space Movement

Barbara T. Smith Field Piece

Barbara T. Smith, Field Piece (detail) - Nude sit in, performance / installation, 1971, (courtesy of the artist and The Box Gallery, L.A.)

This tantalizing show at 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica, on view through December 16, 2011, illuminates the works of five groundbreaking artists and artists groups who have been central to the alternative artist’s space movement in Southern California since the early 1970’s. Collaboration Labs: Southern California Artists and the Artist Space Movement, is part of the expansive arts initiative Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980
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