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Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art
Ruth Pastine: Technicolor Sublime
Saturday, May 16–Sunday, August 2, 2026
Ruth Pastine is internationally recognized for her minimalist color field paintings and multi-panel installations through which she explores the phenomenological experience of color, light, and space. Ruth Pastine: Technicolor Sublime is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in Los Angeles.
Pastine’s work is based in geometric abstraction and minimalism. She extends the sensibilities of the 1960s Southern California Light and Space movement with key differences, such as her focus on metaphysical aspects of consciousness and her reliance on traditional means of probing the chromatic and tonal nuances of oil paint applied with brushes. She evolves her artworks through series, invoking a contemplative connection between the works and the architectural spaces they occupy. Creating an immersive viewing experience, Pastine heightens perception through resonant color relationships. Her luminous canvases engage her philosophical interests in the sublime, furthering the tensions that drive her practice: materiality and immateriality, the known and the unknown, the finite and the limitless.
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The Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts brings some of the most exciting performances from around the world to children and families in Los Angeles.