A Cool Breeze
About the exhibition
A Cool Breeze continues Seattle-based curator Melissa E. Feldman’s research in 1960s California Light and Space and its reverberations, in this case Vancouver artists with a penchant for optical minimalism. This project, drawn largely from local private collections, presents these formal works in conversation to reflect on a parallel use of cool aesthetics in these two West Coast scenes. The exhibition features work by artists associated with “L.A. Glass and Plastic” or “Finish Fetish”, a subset of California Light and Space art, which was a constellation of formal, material and conceptual…
Helen Pashgian, Joan Balzar, Neil Campbell, Gordon Smith, Mary Corse, De Wain Valentine, Phillip K. Smith III, John McCracken, Brian Fisher, Laddie John Dill, Michael Morris
