Frieze: Stand G10
Frieze LA
3233 Donald Douglas Loop S
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Ed & Nancy Kienholz: American Exceptionalism
Stand G10
Barker Hanger
L.A. Louver is pleased to participate in the fourth edition of Frieze Los Angeles with a powerful presentation of rare works by the American artists Edward and Nancy Kienholz. Titled American Exceptionalism, this focused exhibition of works created between the years of 1961 and 2008 platforms the couple’s aesthetic criticisms of American ideology, society, and government.
Edward Kienholz (1927-1994) began his artistic career in Los Angeles in 1952. Central to the LA art scene, Kienholz founded the seminal Ferus Gallery with Walter Hopps in 1957, which became a creative force in the city and in the contemporary art world at large. Ed met Nancy Reddin Kienholz (1943-2019) in 1972; they married and began a lifelong studio collaboration. As an artist couple, Ed and Nancy Kienholz co-created some of the most striking and notable largescale assemblage sculptural works and immersive tableaux of the 20th century.