"Marcia Hafif: A Place Apart"
120 W. Bonita Avenue Claremont, CA 91711
Saturday, September 15 at 6:00 PM 9:00 PM
Ends Dec 22, 2018
Marcia Hafif is renowned as a painter of experimental canvases that suggest both minimalism and process art. For over six decades, Hafif (1929-2018) created a vast amount of art within which she questioned subjects from the history of painting practices to museum architecture, from constellations to tables and boxes. In the exhibition "Marcia Hafif: A Place Apart," the Pomona College Museum of Art places her paintings within a context of sketches, architectural models, photographs, and text, bringing together works that investigate lived spaces, drawing forms, and site-specificity. "A Place Apart" includes over 100 artworks, many never exhibited before, and is the first to highlight the more personal and intimate side of Hafif's drawing practice. The exhibition presents sketches, photographs, plans, models, and artifacts from realized projects such as the Lusthus WanÃ¥s in Sweden and Hafif's mill house in upstate New York; a wide variety of drawing portfolios and sculptures focused on imaginary projects such as The Hut Has No Walls and A Place Apart; and several paintings titled after specific sites: Roman Colors and Pacific Ocean Paintings. Another section of the exhibition includes drawing groups of common forms such as grids, maps, and constellations inspired by the artist's interest in her surroundings and a new site-specific wall writing piece Cooking Fish. The exhibition frames how Hafif's works, while shifting temporally and physically, retain a focus on the world around her–a signature of her practice. The exhibition is curated by Rebecca McGrew and Nidhi Gandhi and is accompanied by a publication designed by Kimberly Varella of Content Object. This exhibition is supported in part by Fergus McCaffrey Gallery, New York.