PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF TIME 

Thursday, 14 April 2011, 7:30 pm

Talk by Robin Clark, Curator,  

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

Herring Hall 100 (Auditorium), Rice University

Reception at 7:00; Talk will start promptly at 7:30 

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Rice University Art Gallery is pleased to present Phenomenal: California   

Light, Space, Surface, a talk by Robin Clark, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), preceded by a wine and cheese reception at 7:00 pm.  

Both reception and lecture are free and open to the public.

Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface, the title of a major, upcoming exhibition organized by Robin Clark and MCASD Director Hugh M. Davies, will be on view at MCASD La Jolla. The exhibition will focus on perceptual investigations undertaken by artists during the 1960s and '70s in Los Angeles, generating some of the most vanguard practices engaging young artists today. Larry Bell, Mary Corse, Robert Irwin, Bruce Nauman, James Turrell, and Doug Wheeler are among the artists whose work focused on visual perception and facilitated an awareness of the viewer's physical body moving through space.  Mary Temple, whose site-specific installation Northwest Corner, Southeast Light is on view at Rice Gallery through  

May 25, cites the work of the Light and Space artists, in particular that of  

Robert Irwin and James Turrell, as a significant influence on her work, and Clark will discuss Temple's installation within this context.

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Doug Wheeler, Untitled, 1965, acrylic on canvas with Plexiglas and neon daylight light

Collection Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; gift of the artist and partial Museum  

purchase with International and Contemporary Collectors Funds and proceeds from  

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Art Auction 2010

Photo: Philipp Scholz Ritterman, copyright © Doug Wheeler