On View June 23 September 8, 2013 State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970 opens on June 23, 2013, at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the only East Coast venue to present the exhibition that explores the emergence of conceptual art in California in the 1960s and 70s. Co-curated by Constance M. Lewallen and Karen Moss, and initially developed as part of the Getty Foundations collaborative exhibition series Pacific Standard Time, State of Mind features artists who played a seminal role in the emergence of California Conceptualism. Works in the exhibition exemplify the unrestricted style of the era, when art was produced for alternative audiences and outside of artists studiosin the streets, at artist-run galleries, and in other non-traditional spaces. State of Mind features video, film, photography, installation, artists books, drawings, sculpture, and extensive performance documentation and ephemera, and includes Chris Burden, Lynn Hershman, Linda Mary Montano, Martha Rosler, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha and many more. Sunday, June 23 Opening Reception from 2-5pm Bronx Museum Members Tour with State of Mind curators and artists from 1-5pm Performance of Sons of War Games by Darryl Sapien from 2:30-4pm (2nd floor, North Wing terrace) Performance by AIM artist Alejandro Guzmán at 4:30pm (1st floor, North Wing Gallery) FREE For more information on State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970 at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, please visit the official Bronx Museum website here.
