This audio series offers entertaining, informative discussions about the arts and events at the Bakersfield Museum of Art. Each podcast gives access to special insight by artists, curators, and historians. The program is made possible with support from Moneywise Wealth Management and the BMoA Fund which ensures that the museum continues to be a cultural epicenter that engages, inspires and builds community through visual arts for generations to come. New episodes are released on the second Saturday of the month.
Stitcher Apple Podcasts Spotify. Lita Albuquerque is an internationally recognized multidisciplinary artist and writer. He was mentored by second-wave Gutai artist Matsumi Kanemitsu, and New York abstract expressionist Emerson Weolffer at CalArts, leading him to distinguish his art through performance, activism, and his investigations into African art and philosophy. The gestures made onto his all-over paintings are abstract and fluid like as if the brushstrokes were caught in motion on the verge of creating its final form.
Here, On the Edge exhibiting artists Lita Albuquerque, Charles Arnoldi, Laddie John Dill, Ned Evans, and Andy Moses discuss the blurred distinctions between different art styles, the freedom that encouraged artists to use new materials in artmaking, the support network and friendliness that distinguished the Los Angeles art scene from its New York counterpart, and the influence that the California landscape had over their work. Moderated by Rachel McCullah Wainwright, On the Edge exhibiting artists Don Bachardy, Gregory Wiley Edwards, Astrid Preston, and Allen Ruppersberg discuss how social upheaval reverberated through the art world of Los Angeles, the network that developed between artists and the collectors who championed their work, and how the California Cool ethos informed their work.
Lynda Benglis is most celebrated for her engagement with the physicality of material within her artistic practice. In the s, she created fluid sculptures by pouring pigmented wax and latex within the gallery space, allowing the work to dictate its final form, while subverting the bravado of the male art stars from that period.
Joan Agajanian Quinn and her late husband Jack represent a key moment in the history of contemporary art, as Los Angeles came to symbolize an innovative and prolific brand of creative freedom. Few individuals have left such an indelible mark on the artistic landscape of Southern California more than Joan and Jack Quinn.
