COAGULA ARCHIVES: Architect Jeff Daniels and artists May Sun and David Hockney at the Hammer Museum, circa 1998.
Painter Yolanda Gonzalez, performance artist? Hope Urban and sculptor? Rud?© Calderon in Al’s Bar (behind them is a 1983 mural painted by Roger Herman), Downtown L.A., 1995.
Artist Michael McCall (center) shows the way at an art opening in Downtown Los Angeles in 1994.
Artists Holly Tempo, William Rabe and Nena Amsler at SITE Gallery at the Brewery Art Colony in Los Angeles in approximately 1996.
Holly Tempo, a well-known Los Angeles artist, was the gallery director at SITE (an acronym for See It Thru Exhibitions). Rabe and Amsler eventually married and run HAUS Gallery in Pasadena and still exhibit their work regularly around town. No idea whose artwork is there on the wall. This location currently houses i-5 Gallery.
Artist PATRICK MERRILL (center) guides his wife thru an extensive art exhibit (Downtown Lives) in November, 1994. Merrill is regarded as one of the great print makers in Southern California over the past 40 years. Here is LINK TO ONE of his recent major prints.
West L.A. Art Dealer Niels Kantor (left) and an unidentified art denizen with an Ed Ruscha artwork to their right in approximately 1994. Niels inherited the Kantor name in an era when there were a hundred times more players in the art game.
From the Coagula Archives: Artist Pierre Picot, photographed at the magazine rack of Skylight (formerly Chatterton’s) Books (on Vermont in South Los Feliz) in approximately 1997.
