Explore the Era

Delve into the postwar Los Angeles art world in this online archive, which provides additional material related to the exhibitions on view at the Getty Center. Learn about hipsters and happenings, and the venues across the city where all the action took place through images from the archives and first-hand accounts with the artists.

Jack Goldstein
Artist

Announcement, Jack Goldstein at Mizuno Gallery

Announcement for Jack Goldstein exhibition at the Mizuno Gallery in Los Angeles, November 1972. © Jack Goldstein Estate. The Getty Research Institute, Gift of Riko Mizuno, 2010.M.84.1

Canadian-born artist Jack Goldstein (1954–2003) moved to Los Angeles as a teenager in the 1960s. He attended Chouinard Art Institute from 1966–1969, and was one of the first graduates working under John Baldessari at CalArts, where he received his MFA in 1972. Intrigued by the visual systems of mass culture, he went on to experiment with performance, film, sound pieces, sculpture, and paintings that explored the spectacle and conventions of the entertainment industry. He moved to New York in the early 1970s and had his first solo show in 1980 at Metro Pictures Gallery.

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  • Video: Barbara T. Smith on art schools

    Video: Learn more about the region’s network of art schools with artist Barbara T. Smith

  • Video: the postwar L.A. gallery scene

    Video: Making the Scene—find out about the L.A. gallery scene during the postwar years

  • Announcement, Jack Goldstein at Mizuno Gallery

    Announcement for Jack Goldstein exhibition at the Mizuno Gallery in Los Angeles, November 1972. © Jack Goldstein Estate. The Getty Research Institute, Gift of Riko Mizuno, 2010.M.84.1