Esoteric Survey

GAPS IN THE RECORD: VANGUARD PRINT CULTURE IN SAN DIEGO May 11 – August 5, 2018 Gaps in the Record: Vanguard Print Culture in San Diego documents the overlapping literary and visual art practices and independent publishing activity within San Diego’s mid-twentieth century creative community. The exhibition centers on a small group of painters who were also writers: Don Dudley (1930), Guy Williams (1934-2004), Richard Allen Morris (1933), Malcolm McClain (1923-2012), John Baldessari (1931), and Fred Cooper (1939). Curated by Dave Hampton The opening reception has been rescheduled to Friday, June 1st More information at  San Diego History Center Poems for Painters, by Guy Williams, Duchamp, 1963, offset print on paper

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. 

MALCOLM MCCLAIN: VISUAL, TEXTUAL The exhibition, curated by Dave Hampton, included  work from the 1940s through the late 1970s. There were 30 works on paper. The exhibition  also included a sound installation  by Charles Curtis,  drawn from texts by McClain.  There's Charles now. Ceramics by McClain

Malcolm McClain fui. non fui. , c. mid-1970s Typewriter and collage on paper 6 x 3-1/2 inches This weekend :  MALCOLM MCCLAIN: VISUAL, TEXTUAL  includes work from the 1940s through the late 1970s.  The exhibition will also include a sound installation  by Charles Curtis   drawn from texts by McClain.   November 8 and 9 at Ronis Fine Art -  1946 Broadway, San Diego, CA 92102 Malcolm McClain American Prophecy State University , c. mid-1970s Ink on paper 4-15/16 x 7-15/16 inches Malcolm McClain Composition , c. 1952 Watercolor on paper 6-1/2 x 8-5/8 inches

Dave Hampton is at it again, this time with an exhibition and sale of work by Mac McClain.   MALCOLM MCCLAIN: VISUAL, TEXTUAL  includes work from the 1940s through the late 1970s.  The exhibition will also include a sound installation  by Charles Curtis   drawn from texts by McClain.   Saturday, November 8 and 9 at Ronis Fine Art -  1946 Broadway, San Diego, CA 92102

Henry Mittwer table Mac McClain pot. More about Mac - here .  Cool stool and kitchen stuff

Artist Mac McClain passed in May. Read Dave Hampton's profile on Mac on Modern San Diego . Mac McClain poem under his pseudonym McCloud  Mac McClain painting Wounded Bird , 1958, oil on canvas, collection of Richard Allen Morris.  Photo: Chip Morton Mac McClain Ceramics AMOCA Common Ground exhibit

Contemporary Art Wins a Beachhead: The La Jolla School of Arts 1960-1964 Curated by Dave Hampton The Oceanside Museum of Art Look at all those Rhoda Lopez ceramics mmm mmm... Ephemera Rhoda Lopez Fred Holle  Collection of my good friend Susan Mac McClain Mac McClain, Tijuana Weekend The Forward collection Fred Holle, Kachina Collection of Richard Allen Morris How come my kindergarten class never went to any cool field trips like this? The field trip went outside to try out abstract art. The Oceanside School of arts? Fred Holle X 4 You should go to this: A Conversation with Guest Curator Dave Hampton and former La Jolla School of Arts faculty and students, Remembering the Art Center in La Jolla An informal conversation about what it was like to take classes and attend exhibition openings at the  Art Center and the prevailing culture and environment there in the early 1960s ...