Rendering Homage: Portraits of a Patron
Los Angeles art patron, collector, and arts advocate, Joan Agajanian Quinn, has been depicted in portraiture for over five decades by world-renowned artists at the forefront of their era, medium, and impact upon the contemporary art scene.
The exhibition RENDERING HOMAGE: Portraits of a Patron is a selection of artworks depicting her visage, created for her by artists she has championed over time. Approximately 50 two and three-dimensional pieces from Quinn鈥檚 collection of over 300 portraits tell the story of her passion for cutting edge American artists through their portrayals of her as their valkyrie.
Bay Area painter Mel Ramos describes Joan as 鈥渁 living work of art.鈥� This exhibition serves to herald her in this light, in addition to revealing her treasured artist friendships and her instinctual certainty of their relevance to 20th and 21st century contemporary art history. This is an exhibition paying homage to an art patron, sincerely appreciated.
Nationally and internationally known artists portray their patron as a powerful art-world personage: an advocate who is true to herself, the artists, and the art she loves.
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Los Angeles art patron, collector, and arts advocate, Joan Agajanian Quinn, has been depicted in portraiture for over five decades by world-renowned artists at the forefront of their era, medium, and impact upon the contemporary art scene.
The exhibition RENDERING HOMAGE: Portraits of a Patron is a selection of artworks depicting her visage, created for her by artists she has championed over time. Approximately 50 two and three-dimensional pieces from Quinn鈥檚 collection of over 300 portraits tell the story of her passion for cutting edge American artists through their portrayals of her as their valkyrie.
Bay Area painter Mel Ramos describes Joan as 鈥渁 living work of art.鈥� This exhibition serves to herald her in this light, in addition to revealing her treasured artist friendships and her instinctual certainty of their relevance to 20th and 21st century contemporary art history. This is an exhibition paying homage to an art patron, sincerely appreciated.
Nationally and internationally known artists portray their patron as a powerful art-world personage: an advocate who is true to herself, the artists, and the art she loves.
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