Esoteric Survey

Bob Matheny, Wabi Sabi (detail), 2016. Letterpress on paper, Series of 100 Photo: Stan Hodge, Manager of Art Direction at Convair-Astronautics, showing employees at work in the art department, c. 1960s.
Print Culture: Midcentury Modern Graphic Design Featured artists include John Baldessari, Tom Gould, Bill Noonan, James Boynton, Bob Matheny, Barney Reid and Jim Sundell. Print Culture is organized by guest curator Dave Hampton. Art Gallery - 9th Floor, Central Library Dec. 10, 2016 - Feb. 26, 2017 Opening Reception: Saturday, Dec. 10, from 12 PM - 2 PM
More information can be found, here. 

John Baldessari posters, including one with Bob Matheny.
 1962 La Jolla School of Arts Faculty Exhibition at the Art Center in La Jolla (now The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego) The exhibition included Don Dudley, Beatrice Levy, Guy Williams, Fred Holle, Rhoda Lopez,Sheldon Kirby and Mac McClain.
 Guy Williams
This was a pretty major paper score. 

Portrait of Pomeroy features art by San Diego artists of the 1950s and 1960s, all from the collection of Walter Pomeroy. The exhibition was curated by Dave Hampton and is on view in the gallery at the San Diego Central Library.
The Pomeroy pad
Hung the way Pomeroy lived with the art 
Jackson Woolley enamel
Bob Matheny
and Richard Allen Morris. The Pomeroy collection includes over 40 pieces by Richard. 
Don Dudley, John Baldessari and Richard Allen Morris Pomeroy has 44 pieces by Morris
John Baldessari painting from 1959, a cremation project survivor.
Here's an actual portrait of Pomeroy by Guy Williams
The exhibition is at the San Diego Central Library (2013), designed by Rob Quigley

Th exhibition runs through May 15, 2016 in the Art Gallery on the 9th Floor of the San Diego Central Library

In the Abstract at Oceanside Museum of Art Curated by Dave Hampton
Jack Rogers Hopkins
 Marj Hyde, Russell Baldwin, Malcolm Leland and Barney Reid.
John Dirks
Russell Forester
Jack Boyd
Toza Radakovich
 Ellamarie & Jackson Woolley and Bob Matheny
As you can see, the exhibition is incredible. 
In the Abstract Oceanside Museum of Art August 15 – November 1, 2015

In 1966, Bob Matheny made a small number of word sculptures related to anti-Vietnam war protests. Bob recalls donating  “Hate," “Win,” and “Bomb 'Em” to auctions to raise money to protest the war. All images:  Bob Matheny “Win"
"Hate"
The sculptures were part of a series of letter and number works Bob did between 1965 and 1969.  Read more about the series on Bob's website.

More of Matheny's work can be seen at the Spitting In The Wind exhibition, currently on view at OMA. ↑ Bob has framed a message for you if don't go see this exhibition. ↑ 
Photo: Darren Bradley

Ben Goo
Some weekends are better than others.  This is one of the better ones...
Bomb 'em & Kill 'em (1966) by Bob Matheny

Jack Boyd silver, wood and turquoise necklace.
Harry Weese slat bench. Please forgive the hack art photography.
Evelyn Ackerman, on canvas...on Weese
David Cressey and Eames


David Cressey for Architectural Pottery

Spitting in the Wind: Art from the End of the Line now has a websiteExhibition photo by Darren Bradley
Photo by Edwin Negado
Photo by Darren Bradley
You'll be sorry if you miss this exhibition.

Spitting in the Wind: Art from the End of the Line celebrates long-standing friendships of artists Richard Allen Morris (b. 1933), John Baldessari (b. 1931), Bob Matheny (b. 1929) and Russell Baldwin (1933-2008), and highlights the astonishing range of work they created while living and working in San Diego. Curated by Dave Hampton.Left to right on opening night: Richard Allen Morris, John Baldessari, Bob Matheny and Dave Hampton. Check out Hampton's canvas tie by Richard Allen Morris.  
John Baldessari quote from Welton Jone's article "Tiny Southwestern had huge impact on 60's San Diego," San Diego Union Tribune, 1994 via Spitting in the Wind by Dave Hampton (More on Southwestern College- here)"There is still no real room for art here. The attitude is anti-art. The art potential of this area is tremendous, but nothing is done about it, and the top people tend to leave." - Richard Allen Morris, 1965 viaSpitting in the Wind by Dave Hampton "San Diego…