Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
January 2018
January 27–August 5, 2018 Taking its title from the classic Bruce Brown surf movie from 1966, Endless Summer offers a snapshot of the seductive minimalism that emerged in Los Angeles in the 1960s. Influenced by a distinctly Southern California culture of automobiles, surfboards, and slick commercial products, the West Coast artists of the Finish Fetish aesthetic and the Light and Space movement sought to capture the enigmatic interchange between industry and atmosphere. Distinct from the East Coast variant of minimalism that was emerging at the same time, the West Coast artists embraced new materials such as fiberglass, plastic, and resin instead of steel, iron, and lead, and they reveled in the vagaries of perception rather than objective facts. Featured Artists in the exhibition include:Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, Judy Chicago, Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman, John McCracken, and Edward Ruscha. Learn more at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.