John Altoon - Retrospective

The first major retrospective of John Altoon (1925-1969) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) features approximately 70 artworks covering John Altoon's artistic career, from gestural abstraction to his advertising satires and late figurative drawings.

Referred to as an 'artists' artist', John Altoon mastered both gestural abstraction and detailed figuration combining content spanning from perverse sexuality, to humor, to pathos, and to self-reflection.

Rarely on view, Altoon's post modernist style incorporates fluidic, vibrant colors playfully characterizing southern California mores.

The exhibit runs through September 14, 2014, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), at BCAM, Level 2, located at 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036. 

For more information call (323) 857-6000 or visit http://www.lacma.org/

Following its presentation at LACMA, John Altoon travels to the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, where it will be on view October 8-December 21, 2014.