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Southern California Contemporary Art: Gifts from the Stuart Spence and Judith Vida-Spence Collection
Established in 1940, Laguna Art Museum鈥檚 (then known as the Laguna Beach Art Association) collection was initially shaped by donations of artworks by the artists who had flocked to Laguna Beach at the turn of the 20th Century. By the 1970s, the Art Association evolved into a museum, attracting significant donations from collectors as the museum鈥檚 mission focused on California art.
Judith Vida-Spence and Stuart Spence took interest in Laguna Art Museum, and together became benefactors of cutting-edge Southern California art for decades as well as Laguna Art Museum trustees. For more than thirty years, the Spences formed personal relationships with the contemporary art they lived with in their home in Los Angeles while also lending pieces to exhibitions and making significant donations to art museums鈥攎ost notably LAM.
Judy and Stuart Spence鈥檚 history of giving to Laguna Art Museum now constitutes a significant 119 artworks by California artists and has become an important part of the museum鈥檚 collection. These gifts span California Conceptualism, West Coast Pop and Los Angeles鈥檚 Lowbrow art movement with works from the 1970s to the present.
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Established in 1940, Laguna Art Museum鈥檚 (then known as the Laguna Beach Art Association) collection was initially shaped by donations of artworks by the artists who had flocked to Laguna Beach at the turn of the 20th Century. By the 1970s, the Art Association evolved into a museum, attracting significant donations from collectors as the museum鈥檚 mission focused on California art.
Judith Vida-Spence and Stuart Spence took interest in Laguna Art Museum, and together became benefactors of cutting-edge Southern California art for decades as well as Laguna Art Museum trustees. For more than thirty years, the Spences formed personal relationships with the contemporary art they lived with in their home in Los Angeles while also lending pieces to exhibitions and making significant donations to art museums鈥攎ost notably LAM.
Judy and Stuart Spence鈥檚 history of giving to Laguna Art Museum now constitutes a significant 119 artworks by California artists and has become an important part of the museum鈥檚 collection. These gifts span California Conceptualism, West Coast Pop and Los Angeles鈥檚 Lowbrow art movement with works from the 1970s to the present.
Artists on show
- Allen Ruppersberg
- Annette Bird
- Barbara Carrasco
- Bruce Yonemoto
- Chaz Bojórquez
- Chris Wilder
- Corey Stein
- Deborah Aschheim
- Elizabeth Pulsinelli
- Gifford Myers
- Gómez Bueno
- Jaime Scholnick
- Jeffrey Vallance
- Jim Shaw
- Jo Ann Callis
- John Baldessari
- John Boskovich
- Kim Abeles
- Laurie Brown
- Lynn Miller Coleman
- Mark Heresy
- Raymond Pettibon
- Russell Crotty
- Sandow Birk
- Sarah Tamor
- Suzanne Williams
- Theresa Pendelbury
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