Karl Benjamin’s work signaled a new aesthetic sensibility in abstract painting in Los Angeles. Benjamin first gained visibility for his exhibition “Four Abstract Classicists,” a 1959 exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in which the term “hard-edge” was coined to describe the new nonobjective painting. “
Benjamin’s aesthetic proceeded to influence the next generation of Los Angeles area painters, perhaps none more so than Alex Couwenberg. As part of Pacific Standard Time, this exhibition explores those influences, and how Couwenberg’s work has evolved and diverged as his work has matured.
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