Produced by the Department of Exhibition Programs, the film follows the career of Virginia Dwan, who opened her first art gallery in Los Angeles in 1959 and went on to organize dozens of exhibitions of remarkable range, representing movements as
diverse as abstract expressionism, pop art, minimalism, conceptualism, and land art.
Her vivid, playful patchwork of lines and shapes resist simple definition, recalling styles as
diverse as abstract expressionism, graffiti, Pop, and Feminist craft.
Not exact matches
Being in a classroom environment allowed me to be around all kinds of
diverse young artists with many different interests, and also to discover artists I had not studied before who were using writing — linguistic
abstract gestural
expressionism, such
as calligraphy — in their contemporary works of art.