![]() ![]() The “Valentine” series, named because it debuted at Ferus on Valentine’s Day, has hearts at its center, and the “Chevron” series has bent and arced forms that are set against toxically colored backgrounds. Bengston had encountered Johns’s work in 1958, the year Johns showed in the U.S. Both supremely odd and oddly striking, these works build on the innovations of Jasper Johns, who less than a decade earlier had imported the everyday-American flags, maps of the U.S.-into painting. Motorcycle” series depict carburetors, the BSA logo, and exhaust pipes amid fields of off-white. At the latter school, he studied with Richard Diebenkorn and Saburo Hasegawa.īengston’s paintings of the early ’60s often feature a single object or image at their center surrounded by abstraction. They both ended up studying with Peter Voulkos, whose ceramics received acclaim.īengston went to Los Angeles City College for two years and then to the California College of Arts and Crafts after that. ![]() He picked up surfing, which became a lifelong passion, and met the artist Ken Price, who would become an important sculptor and a friend to Bengston. “They were some of the ugliest people you’ve ever seen.”Īfter high school came what Artforum once called a “series of misadventures in higher education.” He went to college for three weeks, then got a job in a department store. ![]() “I was pretty excited about this, until it happened,” he told Hyperallergic. He had been intrigued by the prospect of seeing nude models in his art classes. He was drawn to art when he attended the Manual Arts High School, a vocational school whose alumni included Jackson Pollock and Philip Guston. Courtesy Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Seoul They eventually moved back to Kansas, and then relocated to California once more, this time to Los Angeles.īilly Al Bengston, Meatball, 1965. The family had initially been lured to California when his mother got a job performing at a San Francisco opera house. His father was a tailor, and his mother was a musician. “This, perhaps, is one of the factors that makes placing him in some relation to current art most difficult, for he looks nowhere else for the authority of his art-a condition somewhat rare in contemporary American painting at the moment.”īengston was born in Dodge City, Kansas, in 1934. “A quality of the expansiveness of the physical environment as well as some of the brittle gloss and gaudiness of the aggressively manmade Los Angeles environment is acutely condensed in his work,” critic John Coplans wrote in Artforum in 1965. With its emphasis on motorcycle culture, Bengston’s art was considered emblematic of a certain milieu. Founded in 1957 by Walter Hopps, his wife Shirley, and artist Edward Kienholz, the gallery also showed Bengston’s friends Larry Bell and Ed Ruscha. Some have also claimed Bengston as an artist adjacent to the Pop art movement because certain painting series allude to consumer goods.ĭuring the era, Bengston showed at the vaunted Ferus Gallery, which became known for its offbeat and influential exhibitions. European customers in just over a week and everywhere else within 10 working days.ĭo not hesitate to get in touch if you're worried where your t shirt is and we'll let you know.From the Archives: A Brief History of Walter Hopps and Edward Kienholz's Trailblazing Ferus Gallery If you are in the UK and need something urgently just send a message once you've paid and we should be able to prioritise it for you. Most UK customers should receive their shirt within 4-5 days. Spain, Italy, Russia, Far East and South America are all sent recorded delivery. If for any reason we cannot send your shirt within 3 working days we will let you know what's up.Īll shirts are sent standard Royal Mail 2nd class (in the UK) and standard Airmail for everywhere else. We aim to send all orders within 1 working day of ordering. Unfortunately we cannot offer refunds or exchanges for items that have been worn or washed by the buyer. The address can be found on the contact us page. Anything that you wish to return for a different size or that has been ordered in error please send back to us with all your details and what action you would like us to take. We are happy to sort out anything that is incorrect for free. Please get in touch regarding anything you wish to return. Some countries like Canada can take a little longer. UK T shirts will be sent using 2nd class post and should be with you within 3-4 working days of ordering.Įuropean orders take around a week although Eastern Europe takes longer.įor the rest of world allow around 10 working days for delivery. ![]()
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