![]() ![]() In this evaluation of SPARC’s Lost Horizon show, I offer a few observations about some of the works that were exhibited, but mostly I will allow Biberman to speak for himself by inserting those quotes by the artist that SPARC used as plaques in the exhibition. In May of 2012 I followed up with a second article titled Biberman Redux, which focused on the artist’s illustrated biographical book, Time and Circumstances: Forty Years of Painting. My review included biographical details about Biberman, as well as providing a social context to his works by taking into account the times and events he lived through. I encourage one and all to read my February 2009 article, Edward Biberman Revisited, an appraisal of a retrospective exhibit of the artist’s works that was shown at the L.A. But his paintings focusing on the architecture of Los Angeles and the new -at the time, freeways of L.A., exposed his modernist side. His figurative paintings examined social inequality, racial oppression, and the plight of workers, placing him in the school of Social Realism. ![]() ![]() The American realist painter Edward Biberman carved out a place for himself in mid-20th century Los Angeles, despite the ascendancy and domination of abstract expressionism. In August of 2014 the Social And Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) in Venice, California, presented a small but important exhibition titled Lost Horizons: Mural Dreams of Edward Biberman. ![]()
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