The Door Is Always Open
This catalogue to the first museum
retrospective of Gary Baseman’s extraordinary work explores the very personal
world of a unique American artist. Gary Baseman has been an avid artist since
childhood, his visual vernacular defined by his Jewish upbringing in the
multicultural landscape of Los Angeles and by the popular forms of television,
films, games, toys, and cartoons from the 1930s to the present day. With The
Door Is Always Open, the Skirball Cultural Center presents the first major
retrospective of Baseman’s career to date, exhibiting the artist’s work and
personal artifacts within the compelling and novel conceit of a home within a
gallery. The show is designed to resemble a tour of a house, at once highlighting
the intensely personal nature of Baseman’s work (and reflecting the locality of
his influences) and drawing attention to the effortless but deliberate movement
between disciplines and boundaries inherent in his art. This beautifully
illustrated catalogue follows the structure of the exhibition and brings to it
a wealth of material to present a comprehensive survey of Baseman’s work across
all media, from his early editorial illustration work to his expansive and
character-based paintings, his poignant animations to his tragicomic films and
photography, and from his coveted sculptures and vinyl toys to the closely
guarded personal collection of the objects that inspired it all.
Book signing tomorrow, March 7 at Vinyl on Vinyl.
PHP 1980.00
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