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  • Ragged Bar Code (2008)

    John Outterbridge


    Mixed Media 58 x 8 x 2 1/2 in
    Courtesy of the artist and LA> <ART, Los Angeles. Photograph by Tilton Gallery, New York © John Outterbridge

  • Study for Site Specific Billboard Installation (2011)

    John Outterbridge


    Mixed media 13 x 20 ft
    Image courtesy of the artist and LA> <ART © John Outterbridge

  • Study for Site Specific Entryway Installation (2011)

    John Outterbridge


    Mixed media 114 1/2 x 102 1/2 in
    Image courtesy of the artist and LA> <ART © John Outterbridge

LA> <ART

John Outterbridge

John Outterbridge is widely acknowledged as a sculptor and installation artist affiliated with California Assemblage, but he is as equally well known for his work as a community organizer namely as the director of the Watts Towers Arts Center in Los Angeles from 1975 - 1992. He has been a highly influential teacher and mentor for generations of artists, both in his sensitive approach to materials and his commitment to cultural activism. Throughout his long career, Outterbridge has created profoundly poetic work from the basest of found objects, the discarded materials of American society - trash, rubber, burlap, nails, broken glass, rusted steel and hair. This installation, the artist's most extensive show in Los Angeles in decades, will illuminate the beauty and the social, cultural and economic complexity of rags made from reclaimed clothing.
09/10/2011 – 10/22/2011
LA> <ART
2640 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90034