Golden Hour‘s photographic impressions of “the state of being in, and being influenced by, California” should make you feel right at home. Sant Khalsa, John Divola, and Amir Zaki live or work in the region. Works by Darryl Curran are part of RAM’s collection through a generous gift by The Museum Project. Photographers Judy Fiskin and Robbert Flick have used the region as subject and were part of RAM’s 2019 exhibition In the Sunshine of Neglect, our collaboration with the California Museum of Photography. Many of the photographers in Golden Hour will not be unfamiliar to Inland Southern California audiences.
Local Access joins other multi-year, multi-institutional partnerships supported by the initiative across the nation, including those organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Detroit Institute of Arts Philadelphia Museum of Art and Smithsonian American Art Museum.
The exhibitions are the result of a years-long exchange and collaboration among the staffs of the institutions. This unprecedented partnership is centered on sharing collections and museum resources to establish a new model for accessible and inclusive community engagement. Over the next several years, each partner will present up to three exhibitions that reframe and broaden traditional ideas about American art. Local Access will bring special exhibitions drawn from LACMA’s collection to the Lancaster Museum of Art and History the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College the California State University, Northridge, Art Galleries and RAM. LACMA is the first institution in the Western United States to receive a grant through the Art Bridges Initiative. Established in 2018, the Art Bridges Initiative expands access to American art across the United States. RAM is proud to be part of Local Access, a dynamic, multi-year exhibition partnership between the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and four Southern California institutions (including RAM), made possible by a grant from Art Bridges. With works ranging from the early 1900s to present day, Golden Hour is neither a didactic history of the state nor an inclusive tale of photographic history, but rather artists’ impressions of the state of being in, and being influenced by, California. Pairing masters of photography with experimental practitioners in a range of lens-based media that includes photo sculpture, vernacular, and video work, the selection blurs the boundaries of the tropes that formed a California identity. These images, gathered from the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), have come to define the myths, iconographies, and realities of this unique state. In Golden Hour, over 50 artists and one photography collective offer an aesthetic approach to understanding the complexities and histories of California.
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