Suburban Escape: The Art of California Sprawl

  • Larry Sultan, Suburban Street in the Studio, 2000. Chromogenic print, 40 x 50 inches. Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Gift of Jeanne and Richard S. Press. © Larry Sultan.

  • Stéphane Couturier, San Diego, Fenêtre, East Lake Greens, 2002. Photograph, 92 1/4 x 75 inches. Collection of L.J. Cella. © Stéphane Couturier.

  • Fandra Chang, End of Horizons, 2001. Digital c-print on Plexiglas, from EyeWire Images: Main Street America E008417, 13 x 59 inches. Collection of the University of Southern California Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles; Purchase Fund, Museum Studies Program Class of 2003. © Fandra Chang.

This exhibition surveyed the work of approximately 30 artists who have devoted a significant portion of their careers to the examination of suburban culture—including suburban development, tract home architecture, home construction, and land use in California. Among the artists featured in the exhibition: Lewis Baltz, Jeff Brouws, Angela Buenning, Fandra Chang, Stéphane Couturier, William Garnett, Todd Hido, Salomon Huerta, Robert Isaacs, Bill Owens, John Register, and Joel Sternfeld.

 

Sponsors

  • National Endowment for the Arts
  • The Farrington Historical Foundation
  • McManus Faulkner & Morgan
  • Rita and Kent Norton