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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)
Three works by William Leavitt, from left to right: Residential B-2, 1995, Innuendo, 1995, and Planetarium Projector, 1987. 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.
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 ...
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.
Sarah Charlesworth / William Leavitt. Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles. 24 February – 23 March 1996 ...
