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[image] Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken 1961-1976 October 2, 2011-January 22, 2012 Reception: Saturday, October 8, 20ll, 7-9pm Claudia Bohn-Spector & Sam Mellon, Curators This landmark exhibition brings two seminal yet under-studied Los Angeles artists into close conversation for the very first time, Berman and Heinecken bridged modernist and emerging post-modernist trends by ushering in the use of photography as a key element of contemporary avant-garde art. Their works are exploerd within the unique cultural context of 1960s and 1970s Southern California, as it fueled and amplified thier highly original creative approaches. Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken, 1961-1976 is part of Pacific Standard Time. This unprecedented collaboration, initiated by the Getty, brings together more than sixty cultural institutions from across Southern California for six months beginning October 11 to tell the story of the birth of the L.A art scene. Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A 1945-1980 Presenting Sponsors The Getty Fall 2011 armory center for the Arts exhibitions Bank of America