Exhibitions
San Francisco Museum of Art, Dynaton installation, 1951
Clockwise: Gordon Onslow Ford, Lee Mullican, Wolfgang Paalen, Luchita Hurtado and Jaqueline Johnson; Courtesy Lucid Art Foundation
The Dynaton
Château Shatto, 2026
Château Shatto, in active collaboration with the Lucid Art Foundation, presents an exhibition, Dynaton, that revisits and expands the artistic constellation set in motion by Wolfgang Paalen’s “Farewell to Surrealism” and crystallized in the 1951 San Francisco Museum of Art presentation of Gordon Onslow Ford, Wolfgang Paalen, Lee Mullican, and the philosophical writings of Jacqueline Johnson.
Paulina Peavy:Astrocultural Messenger
Andrew Edlin Gallery, 2023
While Paulina Peavy’s (1901-1999) life spanned the twentieth century, her art and belief system represent a crucible for our current moment. She challenged gender norms and racial divides, revitalized hermetic and matriarchal systems, embraced cult traditions, and played a vital role in a community of groundbreaking artists. She saw herself as an emissary, a messenger for advanced beings contextualized through the phenomenon of UFOs. A singular figure, Peavy would become the first established fine artist to be publicly associated with the movement known as astroculture.
Paulina Peavy: An Etherian Channeler
Beyond Baroque, 2021
In collaboration with Label Curatorial, the Mike Kelley Gallery at Beyond Baroque presented Paulina Peavy: An Etherian Channeler, curated by Laura Whitcomb—the first West Coast exhibition of Paulina Peavy (1901–1999) in more than 75 years. The exhibition explored Peavy’s singular practice as a mediumist artist who claimed to channel a discarnate entity named Lacamo, whose teachings shaped her layered paintings, writings, and ritual masks. Situating Peavy within the early twentieth-century West Coast avant-garde—alongside figures connected to Hans Hofmann, the Synchromists, and Lorser Feitelson’s post-surrealist circle—the presentation traced her role in California’s experimental art scene before her move to New York in 1943. Featuring channeled paintings from the 1930s that evolved through additional layers over decades, as well as works on paper, masks, writings, films, and rare hermetic texts, the exhibition highlighted Peavy’s visionary cosmology and its intersection with occult philosophy, abstraction, and astrocultural thought.
Luminaries of Light and Space
LAX, 2022 – 2025
DUBLAB and the LAX Art Program present an exhibition highlighting pioneers and innovators of one of Los Angeles’ most notable homegrown visual art movements, the Light and Space Movement. Curated by Laura Whitcomb of Label Curatorial, artists featured include Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, Gisela Colón, Laddie John Dill, Fred Eversley, Robert Irwin, John McCracken, Helen Pashgian, Hap Tivey, and De Wain Valentine. The Light and Space Movement explores how light creates permutations within the spectrum of color through the use of Space Age materials and technology that define fields of luminous experience. By condensing the energy of light into sculptural mass, subtle endless space and refraction appear within their rigid forms. The works on view represent minimalistic forms, and, when engaged with, create spectacular phenomena only visible to the naked eye. Photography and documentation are often unable to reproduce the infinite arrangements of light and color as well as the refractions and nuanced spectral variants created by each artist.
Tertium Organum Traversing Space
Center for the Arts Eagle Rock
The Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Pasadena Art Alliance, and Label Curatorial present the first installment of the two-part exhibition Mysticism and Mathematics titled Tertium Organum:Traversing Space and The Golden Ratio: A Procession. Both shows explore the radical shifts that saw modern art interface with scientific advance, echoing a long-standing tradition throughout history. These exhibitions highlight how mathematics has been a foundational tool to convey metaphysical principles through a myriad of cultures beginning in ancient times. Tertium Organum: Traversing Space explores the fin du siècle phenomenon where breakthroughs in higher geometry and advanced mathematics emerged from communities engaging esotericism and the revival of lost wisdom. The exhibition includes artists who were influenced both both P.D. Ouspensky and his mentor George Gurdjieff who are placed in a dialogue with late 20th century and post millennial artists who implicitly explore their ideas.
Joan Quinn Captured
Brand Library
As part of the Brand Library & Art Center’s 2012–2014 historic restoration, Label Curatorial organized the institution’s official reopening exhibition in 2014. Joan Quinn Captured presented a series of capsule galleries featuring Light and Space artists Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, and Laddie John Dill, alongside postwar Los Angeles luminaries including Billy Al Bengston, Charles Arnoldi, Don Bachardy, Tony Berlant, Claire Falkenstein, Joe Goode, Frank Gehry, George Herms, David Hockney, Ed Moses, Ed Ruscha, Allen Ruppersberg, and Beatrice Wood. Their works were shown in dialogue with portraits of the cultural impresario Joan Quinn, highlighting her longstanding relationships with artists across Los Angeles and beyond. Reflecting Quinn’s international networks, the exhibition also featured members of the London Them collective, including Dame Zandra Rhodes, Luciana Martinez de la Rosa, Duggie Fields, Kevin Whitney, and Andrew Logan. Quinn’s close association with Andy Warhol—for whom she served as West Coast editor of Interview magazine—was represented through her Polaroids of Warhol, sketches by Jean-Michel Basquiat, and documentary materials related to both artists. A photography section further expanded the exhibition’s scope, presenting works by Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, George Hurrell, and Arthur Tress.
Warner Jepson: Indeterminate Convergences
Center for the Arts Eagle Rock
Warner Jepson: Indeterminate Convergences was presented with Dublab and the Estate of Warner Jepson at the Center for the Arts Eagle Rock in 2018. The exhibition presented the work of artists closely allied with Jepson largely from his collection which included Ruth Asawa, Larry Bell, Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, Richard Faralla, Simone Forti, Anna Halprin, Robert Morris, Yvonne Rainer, Sam Tchakalian and others. The objective of this exhibition was to highlight the intersection of dance, art, film and electronic/ experimental music, focusing on the legacy of Warner Jepson who played a central role in the fertile cross pollination of these genres through the 1950s-1970s.