“Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series”

Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park #79, 1975; Oil on canvas ©The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn

What’s striking is the way they record the mysterious and unquenchable activity of an artist at work in his studio. In precisely the years when Diebenkorn was making the Ocean Park paintings, art busted out of what had become an admittedly airless and confining realm. The work from a new era characterized by experimental and interdisciplinary approaches was quickly dubbed “post-studio art.” Partly intended to knock painting off its pedestal, it saw Conceptualism, performance, video, Earthworks, site-specific installations and more come to art’s foreground.

—Christopher Knight in the Los Angeles Times reviewing Richard Diebenkorn’s show at the Orange County Museum of Art. The exhibition continues until May 27.

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