Esoteric Survey

Rhoda Lopez, Jane and Gordon Martz and Roger Marshall

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. 

Model by Sim Bruce Richards Frank Lloyd Wright’s Legacy in San Diego: the Taliesin Architects  at the La Jolla Historical Society  frames the remarkably rich portfolio of work with architectural drawings and models; period and contemporary photographs; as well as objects and ephemera. Furniture by Sim Bruce Richards Sim Bruce Richards children's table and sofa. Tile prototypes by  Sim Bruce Richards and Rhoda Lopez   The table was designed with a "milk-retaining edge". Jane Chapman pillows Loch Crane rendering for Crane II in Point Loma The Onion House by Kendrick Bangs Kellogg and Bill Slatton  in Kona, Hawaii (1961–62) Vincent Bonini, Bonini House (La Cañada, CA), 1955 Vincent was fiends with Eugene Weston, who lent him furniture for this Julian Shulman photo shoot--hence the Weston table. He would later join the firm of Liebhardt & Weston in San Diego. More information can be found at Mode...

Yes, San Diego is sunny in the winter and has some nice beaches. There's also some great architecture, like the  Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (1964) by Lloyd Ruocco Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (1964) by Lloyd Ruocco Liebhardt, Frederick & Marianne Residence (1951) by  Frederick  Liebhardt & Eugene Weston  House being demolished next to Scripps Institute of Oceanography Monsees Professional Building  (1959) by  Frederick  Liebhardt & Eugene Weston Compact Houses by Herbert Brownell Compact Houses by Herbert Brownell Compact Houses by Herbert Brownell Unknown in Pacific Beach Unknown in Ocean Beach Bailin Residence (1961) by Maggy Thomas Associates  in Ocean Beach Rhoda Lopez in Point Loma Spec Houses 3 and 1 (above) by John Reed If you find yourself in San Diego and want to see some architecture, Modern San ...

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 ...