Dilexi Gallery&raquo;Pacific Standard Time at the Getty

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.

Dilexi Gallery

Poster for Joe Goode exhibition at Dilexi Gallery in Los Angeles, 1963. The Getty Research Institute, Gift of Michael Asher, 2009.M.30.15. Image courtesy of Jerry McMillan and Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica. © Jerry McMillan

Dilexi Gallery, one of the avant-garde exhibition spaces in San Francisco in the 1950s and 1960s, was owned and operated by Jim Newman and Robert Alexander. In 1962, Newman opened this short-lived branch in Los Angeles with Rolf Nelson, who would go on to establish his own space in 1963.