Peter Voulkos, John Altoon, Ed Ruscha, and Billy Al Bengston crossed many paths in the late 1960s and 70s, but their major works share too little in common to be shown together outside of the largest geographic or generational exhibitions. Everybody knows Ruscha’s printmaking efforts, many know of Bengston’s, far fewer know of Altoon’s prints, and hardly anyone knows that Peter Voulkos, the giant …
Peter Voulkos, John Altoon, Ed Ruscha, and Billy Al Bengston crossed many paths in the late 1960s and 70s, but their major works share too little in common to be shown together outside of the largest geographic or generational exhibitions. Everybody knows Ruscha’s printmaking efforts, many know of Bengston’s, far fewer know of Altoon’s prints, and hardly anyone knows that Peter Voulkos, the giant of ceramics, made a series of lithographs in 1979. We have tugged on that common thread of printmaking as the basis to gather these four artists together at Iris Project, open to the public on …