Laura Andreson and Her Legacy
This exhibition will bring to light the seminal impact that Laura Andreson had on the Southern California clay movement, contemporary sculpture, and design, both as an educator at UCLA and overall innovator in ceramic forms and surfaces. The exhibition will foster appreciation for the legacy left by a female artist and educator who was working at a time when both art and education were very patriarchal.
Approximately forty pivotal examples of Andreson’s work will be exhibited alongside the work of some noteworthy students including JB Blunk, David Cressey, and Bernard Kester, as well as the work of several of Andreson’s own mentors and peers such as Gertrud and Otto Natzler, Glen Lukens, and Carlton Ball. Andreson’s work shaped Southern California art, design, and life, with resonance on a national scale.
From the Collection of Forrest L. Merrill.
From the Collection of Forrest L. Merrill.
This project is supported by a grant from the Pasadena Art Alliance.
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