Harvard Club of Southern California: The Marciano Art Foundation: A Self-Guided Visit

The Marciano Art Foundation: A Self-Guided Visit

Join us for a visit to the Marciano Art Foundation, a contemporary art space in Hancock Park. Marciano Art Foundation is dedicated to fostering a spirit of collaborative creative freedom by making the unique spaces of our historic building available to artists, arts organizations, and other creative groups to realize innovative projects and public programs on an ongoing basis.

Thursday, August 14, 2025 @ 11:30am-1:30pm
Marciano Art Foundation, 4357 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90010

Register: Please RSVP below
Cost: No charge, but space is limited.
Contact: Pooja Nair, pnair@ecjlaw.com

With over 1,500 works in the Marciano Art Collection, the Foundation continues to support living artists through acquisitions, operating a lending program to museums and institutions worldwide and ensuring free access to the collection through exhibitions.

Parking is free, but registration is required. Check in details will be sent upon registration.
 
This is a free, self-guided visit to the Foundation collection at your own pace. You are welcome to bring a guest, and to stay as long as you would like.

In addition to the permanent collection, the Foundation will have the following special exhibition during our visit:

Barbara T. Smith: Xerox 914
May 14, 2025 – August 16, 2025
Barbara T. Smith (b. 1931, Pasadena) is recognized for her formative role in the development of performance art. Her sustained investigation of the intersection of “real life and performance” is characterized by radical, interdisciplinary actions. Her life as an artist began, in 1966, with a machine. Smith leased a Xerox 914—a photocopier designed to streamline secretarial tasks and named for its ability to reproduce anything up to 9 x 14 inches—and situated the table-sized machine in the dining room of her Pasadena home. Using the machine like a camera, she copied household items, photographs of her children, and most remarkably, her body. Over an eight-month period Smith produced fifty thousand prints using this novel reproductive technology, generating a monumental body of images with which to create two-dimensional compositions, sculptures, and unique artist’s books, as well as to duplicate and distribute her poetry. She was one of the first artists ever to create artwork with a photocopy machine.
 

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Refund Policy: We do not provide refunds for any of our events.