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ARTISTS
OF INVENTION: A CENTURY OF CCA
October
13, 2007 – March 16, 2008
A portrait of Bay Area artists and art movements through
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Robert
Bechtle,' 56 Chrysler, 1965. Oil on canvas, 36" x
40".
Collection of the Oakland Museum of California, gift of Gary Lucidon. |
the 20th century and celebration of the California College of the
Arts (formerly CCAC) centennial. The survey includes the renegade plein-air painters known
as the Society of Six; production ceramists Edith Heath and Jocomena
Maybeck; artists of the Bay Area Figurative school Richard Diebenkorn,
Nathan Oliveira, and Manuel Neri; Peter Voulkos, Robert Arneson,
and Viola Frey, leaders of the studio ceramics movement; minimalist
John McCracken and conceptualists David Ireland and Dennis Oppenheim;
photorealists Robert Bechtle, Richard McLean, and Jack Mendenhall;
and painters Squeak Carnwath and Raymond Saunders. ARTISTS OF
INVENTION: A CENTURY OF CCA was organized by Oakland Museum
of California Chief Curator of Art Philip Linhares, exhibition designer
Ted Cohen, and consultant Lee Plested, all CCA alumni.
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