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Leavitt received a BFA from University of Colorado, Boulder and a MFA from Claremont Graduate School. 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.
Nov 9, 2022 · Redefinition of Art in Los Angeles, 1967-1978, Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School, Santa Monica Collection show , Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (catalogue)
Sep 3, 2019 · A painter, draughtsman, sculptor, playwright, filmmaker, and composer, Leavitt is known for understated installations that evoke midcentury California homes. Succinct scripts, scenarios, or ...
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See all works by William Leavitt. Enamored of the artifice of Hollywood sets, William Leavitt has used the tricks and tropes of professional set design and the visual language of cinema to look at how context, objects, and editing influence our understanding of narrative.
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.
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.
From monumental opalescent canvases by Mary Corse to quippy word-works by Ed Ruscha, discover available works by Los Angeles’ most influential artists, whether born into the sunshine city or self-adopted later in life.
