The Laguna Art Museum presents Helen Lundeberg: A Retrospective Sunday February 21 2016 thru May 30 2016.
Laguna Art Museum is open from 11:00am to 5:00pm Sunday February 21 2016.
$7.00 general
$5.00 students and seniors
FREE for children under 12 and museum members.
Laguna Art Museum is proud to be organizing the first comprehensive exhibition of the work of a key figure in twentieth-century California art, Helen Lundeberg (1908-1999).
Featuring approximately sixty to seventy paintings, it will survey Lundeberg’s career systematically, beginning with her landmark Post-Surrealist paintings of the 1930s.
With her teacher and later husband Lorser Feitelson, she organized the Post-Surrealist group, the first of its kind in the United States, and wrote its manifesto.
Though exploring psychology and personal expression, the Post Surrealists aimed to bring a greater sense of order and control to European Surrealism and originally styled themselves New Classicists.
By the late 1950s Lundeberg was working on a larger scale.
She simplified her style into broad, flat areas of color and, though never a pure abstractionist, played a key part in the “hard-edge” tendency in mid-century painting.
Bringing de Chirico-like ambiguities of space to architectural and landscape compositions, she preserved the enigmatic mood of her earlier, surrealistic imagery.
The exhibition follows upon an upswing in Lundeberg’s reputation.
Laguna Art Museum is located at 307 Cliff Drive.
Laguna Art Museum Parking
Metered parking is available surrounding the museum on Cliff Drive and Pacific Coast Highway.
The meters take quarters and credit cards only.
Additional street parking is available in the residential area east of the museum, across Pacific Coast Highway.
