Southern California Contemporary Art

Laguna Art Musuem (LAM) is pleased to present Southern California Contemporary Art: Gifts from the Stuart Spence and Judith Vida-Spence Collection featuring 40 artworks of the Spences’ 119 gifts, highlighting works by John Baldessari, Suzanne Williams, Theresa Pendlebury and many more and is on view now.

Judith Vida-Spence and Stuart Spence took interest in LAM, and together became benefactors of cutting-edge Southern California art for decades as well as LAM trustees. For more than thirty years, the Spences formed personal relationships with the contemporary art they lived with in their home in Los Angeles while also lending pieces to exhibitions and making significant donations to art museums—most notably LAM.