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  • Nov 01, 2024

Los Angeles: David Medalla: In Conversation with the Cosmos

Installation view of DAVID MEDALLA’s "In Conversation with the Cosmos," 2024, at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Photo by Sarah Golonka. Courtesy Hammer Museum.

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.


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