California Artist Archive
California Artist Archive
The curatorial’s endeavors have resulted in new narratives through unpublished historical facts that are rewriting California history. The curatorial’s research center has a database that specializes in 20th Century California artists. An extensive newspaper clipping archive has been assembled from the archives of international institutions and private collections and databases that is otherwise unavailable to the public. The research team for Label Curatorial is able to locate lost works through advanced resources that span public auction records to a close network of art advisors. The curatorial’s discoveries have been the basis of seven museum and gallery shows in the last five years that have presented polemical shifts in art history. The research has presented new understandings of the artists and the movements they are affiliated with.
The director Laura Whitcomb has developed an archive of taped interviews for future scholars and exhibitions of key California poets, musicians and artists. Recent projects of the curatorial and the research director Narin Dickerson have yielded an account of a little known time in the Bay Area of Willem de Kooning and the history of the little known artists Paulina Peavy establishing an unknown chapter in American history that took place in the South Bay.
Through this focus the developed collections and individual works are prepared for exhibition, auction and gallery representation.