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Title:	Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968
Date:	11/23/2024 - 5/4/2025
Address:	The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles - 250 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Location:	Los Angeles, CA
Hours:	Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday: 11am - 5pm, Thursday: 11am - 8pm, Sa & Su: 11am - 6pm
Cost/Cover:	free
Web Page:	https://www.moca.org/exhibition/ordinary-people-photorealism ...
Contact Info:	213-626-6222

Details:

The first large-scale exhibition to reexamine the postwar art movement of photorealism and trace its lineages in art of the present day, Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968 includes more than forty artists (largely though not exclusively North American), spans the 1960s to the present, and features paintings alongside drawings, sculptures, and archival materials. This historical, scholarly, group exhibition recovers the social art history of photorealism and complicates its meaning as a realism. While photorealism is often regarded as an end–of figuration, of representation, and even of painting at the close of the 1960s–this timely exhibition recasts photorealism as beginning, arguing for its continued presence in contemporary art. It features canonical and under-recognized photorealists of the 1960s and ‘70s (Robert Bechtle, Vija Celmins, Chuck Close, Richard Estes, Audrey Flack, Duane Hanson, Idelle Weber); reconsiders well-known figures within photorealist frameworks (John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres, Barkley L. Hendricks, Joan Semmel, Amy Sherald, Kehinde Wiley); and identifies younger generations of artists’ receptions of photorealism (Gina Beavers, Cynthia Daignault, Sayre Gomez, Vincent Valdez, Christine Tien Wang).