Exhibitions

Our Artists at Pacific Standard Time

We congratulate our artists on their projects included in PST ART: Art & Science Collide. The initiative in Los Angeles creates opportunities for civic dialogue around some of the most urgent problems of our time by exploring past and present connections between art and science in a series of exhibitions, public programs, and other resources. Project topics range from climate change and environmental justice to the future of artificial intelligence and alternative medicine.

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Torkwase Dyson

Here

September 14– October 26, 2024

Pace Gallery
1201 South La Brea Avenue
Los Angeles

This solo exhibition of new paintings and sculptures continues the artist's explorations of environment, architecture, infrastructure and black space. In her work across painting, sculpture, performance, film, and drawing, Dyson uncovers continuities between ecology, infrastructure, and architecture through a language of abstract, poetic forms. Her two- and three-dimensional abstractions grapple with the ways in which space is perceived, imagined, and negotiated—particularly by black and brown bodies—to examine histories of human geography and black spatial liberation strategies.

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Pepsi-Cola Pavilion (detail), 1970, photography by Harry Shunk (German, 1924–2006) and János Kender (Hungarian, 1938–2009). Getty Research Institute, 2014.R.20. Gift of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation in memory of Harry Shunk and Janos Kender. Floats: © R — Pepsi-Cola Pavilion (detail), 1970, photography by Harry Shunk (German, 1924–2006) and János Kender (Hungarian, 1938–2009). Getty Research Institute, (opens in a new window) 2014.R.20. Gift of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation in memory of Harry Shunk and Janos Kender. Floats: © Robert Breer/Kate Flax/gb agency, Paris. Fog: © Fujiko Nakaya. Courtesy Experiments in Art and Technology. Light Towers: © Forrest Myers, *Light Frame* (1968–70). © J. Paul Getty Trust

Robert Whitman

Sensing the Future: Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)

September 10, 2024–February 23, 2025

The Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles

Telling the story of a unique mid-20th-century collaboration between artists and engineers, this exhibition explores the beginnings of the organization Experiments in Art and Technology, or E.A.T., as well as two of its most pivotal projects: 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering and the iconic Pepsi-Cola Pavilion at the 1970 World Exposition in Osaka, Japan, both of which pursued groundbreaking integrations of theater, dance, technology, and interactive, multimedia art.

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Xin Liu, The Mothership, 2023. Silicone, bronze, aluminum, customized cooling system. Courtesy of the artist and Make Room, Los Angeles. Photo: Daniel Greer. © Daniel Greer 2024 — Xin Liu, *The Mothership*, 2023. Silicone, bronze, aluminum, customized cooling system. Courtesy of the artist and Make Room, Los Angeles. Photo: Daniel Greer. © Daniel Greer 2024

Glenn Kaino, Mika Tajima, and Yoshitomo Nara

Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice

September 14, 2024 - January 5, 2025

The Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles

Co-curated by Glenn Kaino, this exhibition considers environmental art practices that address the climate crisis and anthropogenic disasters and their inescapable intersection with issues of equity and social justice. Featuring works by more than 20 artists, Breath(e) strives to challenge and deconstruct polarized political attitudes surrounding climate justice in America and offers new perspectives around land and indigenous rights of nature.

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Palm Springs Art Museum. Photograph by Lance Gerber.

James Turrell and Mary Corse

Particles and Waves: Southern California Abstraction and Science, 1945 - 1990

September 14, 2024 – February 23, 2025

Palm Springs Art Museum
101 North Museum Drive
Palm Springs

From Man Ray’s paintings of mathematical models to Lee Mullican’s computer-inspired abstractions, this exhibition examines how concepts and technologies from the realms of advanced scientific research impacted the development of abstract (or non-figurative) styles of artwork in postwar Southern California, uniting several generations of artists working in diverse materials and styles to visualize light, energy, motion, and time.

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91587.02 — Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg, *Wind Map, Visualization of wind patterns in the US on November 2*, 2013, Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg © Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Mika Tajima

Seeing the Unseeable: Data, Design, Art

September 19, 2024 – February 15, 2025
ArtCenter College of Design
1700 Lida Street
Pasadena

With a focus on nuanced concepts about data and its visualization and environment, this wide-ranging, multilayered exhibition explores how contemporary art, design and culture respond to big data’s impact on daily life.

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Trevor Paglen

Digital Capture: Southern California and the Pixel-Based Image World

September 21, 2024 – February 2, 2025
UCR ARTS at UC Riverside: California Museum of Photography
3824 Main Street
Riverside

Spanning six decades (1962–2020s), this exhibition and accompanying publication investigate the history and creative uses of digital imaging technology, from the genesis of digital imaging in Southern California research laboratories during the Cold War and space race of the 1960s to the ubiquity of digital media in our contemporary world, narrating the ideological shifts that occurred as digital technologies were adopted for artistic ends.

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Hank Willis Thomas

For Freedoms Congress

September 27, 2024
Pace Gallery
1201 South La Brea Avenue
Los Angeles

For Freedoms Congress (FFCON2024) is a convening of artists, cultural institutions, organizations, and civic leaders that are transforming our political landscape.

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