Nov 05 2016
Conversation: Helen Pashgian and Peter Blake

Conversation: Helen Pashgian and Peter Blake

Presented by Laguna Art Museum at Laguna Art Museum

Artist Helen Pashgian discusses her work with gallerist Peter Blake in conjunction with the exhibition HELEN PASHGIAN, on view at Peter Blake Gallery.

About Helen Pashgian

Helen Pashgian is a pioneer and pre-eminent member of the Light and Space movement. Her signature forms include columns, discs and spheres in delicate and rich coloration, often with an isolate element appearing suspended, embedded or encased within. Developed through innovative applications of industrial epoxies, plastics and resins, Pashgian’s semi-translucent surfaces seem to filter and contain illumination. Activated by light, these sculptures resonate in form and spatiality both inner and outer.
Helen Pashgian was an artist in residence at the California Institute of Technology from 1970-71. She received a National Endowment of the Arts Individual Artist Grant in 1986. In 2013, she was a recipient of the MOCA’s Award to Distinguished Women in the Arts.
She was included in Pacific Standard Time: Cross Currents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970 at The Getty Center, the related Pacific Standard Time exhibition Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface at The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, and was the subject of a major solo exhibition, Helen Pashgian: Light Invisible at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art during the spring of 2014.

About Peter Blake

Since opening his gallery in 1993, gallerist Peter Blake has been exhibiting modern and contemporary art with an emphasis on California minimalism and California Light and Space.

Admission Info

Included with museum admission
(members free; others $7 and $5)

Dates & Times

2016/11/05 - 2016/11/05

Location Info

Laguna Art Museum

307 Cliff Drive, Laguna Beach, CA 92651