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| Garth Clark Gallery opened in September 1981 on Wilshire Boulevard opposite the Los Angeles County Museum of Art with the exhibition Beatrice Wood: A Very Private View. In 1983 a second gallery opened at 24 West 57th Street in New York. GCG also had galleries in Kansas City, London and from 2002 maintained the Garth Clark Project Space in Long Island City. For twenty-seven years GCG maintained a vigorous program of exhibitions, over six hundred, both of historical material and new works by its international stable of artists that at various times included Ralph Bacerra, Sir Anthony Caro, Marek Cecula, Ruth Duckworth Jean-Pierre Larocque, Bodil Manz, John Mason, Ron Nagle, Grayson Perry, Alev Ebuzziya Siesbye, Beth Cavener Stichter, Akio Takamori and the Mama of Dada, Beatrice Wood. GCG’s scholarly theme and history exhibitions introduced the art world to the ceramics of George E. Ohr, Michael Cardew, Hans Coper, Lucie Rie, Lucio Fontana, Jackson Pollock, Elie Nadelman and frequently surveyed the Otis Group in Los Angeles headed by Peter Voulkos. In 1994 the Los Angeles gallery was closed. What Peter Schjeldahl called that “jewel box of a gallery on 57th Street” continued until June 2008 when GCG became a private web-based gallery. |
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