David Medalla
In Conversation with the Cosmos
Hammer Museum
Los Angeles

The early precocity and peripatetic life of the late David Medalla (1942–2020) has long expressed itself in a self-mythologizing and meandering body of work that includes kinetic sculpture, performance, paintings, handmade masks, and, as necessitated by such an itinerant existence, an emphasis on collage, drawings, notebooks, and ephemera.