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Since moving to Los Angeles in 1965 his work evolved, increasingly referencing themes endemic to the city such as the line between reality and fantasy and the nature of illusion. [5]
Oct 31, 2017 · Last year some friends and I made a list of Los Angeles artists who were overdue for local museum acknowledgment—project rooms, mid-career surveys, retrospectives, whatever—and had to quit when we reached 100.
Mar 13, 2021 · In addition to the painting and drawing featured in this exhibition, Leavitt, a true artworld hybrid, is revered for his work as a draughtsman, designer, installation artist, sculptor, filmmaker and playwright.
Leavitt, who moved to Los Angeles in 1965, looks at the popular culture and modernist architecture of the city to create works that suggest narrattives and what he calls, “the theater of the ordinary.” His works reflect the particular fusion of illusion and reality of Hollywood.
Installation view at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology. February 9–May 18, 2014. Photography by Brian Forrest. Leavitt's investigation of narrative can also be found in his drawings, paintings, and photographs.
Sep 3, 2019 · Leavitt occupies a unique position in this movement and the Los Angeles art community. His first museum survey was a retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 2011,...
- Annette Leddy
William Leavitt, a pioneering Conceptual artist who has been working in Los Angeles since the late 1960s, probes the familiar and strange—often uncanny—surroundings of postwar Los Angeles life.
