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Pacific Standard Time Exhibition
She Accepts the Proposition: Women Gallerists and the Redefinition of Art in Los Angeles, 1967-1978
October 1 – November 23, 2011 Opening Reception
October 15,  6 – 8 pm   Guest curator: Kristina Newhouse

Gallery 669; Mizuno Gallery; Eugenia Butler Gallery; Claire S. Copley Gallery; Morgan Thomas Gallery; ThomasLewallen Gallery; and establishment of the nonprofit Foundation for Art Resources (FAR) by Claire Copley, Constance Lewallen, and Morgan Thomas.
  Original artworks, photographs, ephemera, audio, video, and historic exhibition reviews.
  artists: Bas Jan Ader, Terry Allen, Charles Arnoldi, Michael Asher, David Askevold, AY-O, John Baldessari, Chris Burden, Daniel Buren, Eugenia P. Butler, James Lee Byars, Robert Cumming, Dorit Cypis, Doug Edge, Karen Frimkess Wolff, Jack Goldstein, Raul Guerrero, Douglas Huebler, Edward Kienholz, Joseph Kosuth, David Lamelas, William Leavitt, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Allan McCollum, Jane Reynolds, Allen Ruppersberg, Ilene Segalove, Ger van Elk, William Wegman, Douglas Wheeler, and Lawrence Weiner.   The mid sixties to the late seventies marked a particularly fertile, experimental period in which several new art movements rapidly emerged to challenge customary notions of audience reception. While early dealers such as Irving Blum and Henry Hopkins have been canonized for promoting innovative artists, the role of other galleries and dealers in the Los Angeles scene of that era is less well known. With She accepts the proposition, we examine the critical contribution of Los Angeles women art dealers in particular to the advancement of nontraditional art practices, in the period from 1967 to 1978.

She Accepts the Proposition: Women Gallerists and the Redefinition of Art in Los Angeles, 1967-1978 is presented as part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time initiative. Pacific Standard Time is a collaboration of more than 60 cultural institutions across Southern California – coming together for the first time to celebrate the birth of the L.A. art scene.  Crossroads is the only K-12 institution invited to participate in Pacific Standard Time.   Pacific Standard Time is an initiative of the Getty. The presenting sponsor is Bank of America.