Work by Nancy Burson is on display through July 31, 2016, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as part of the exhibition “Physical: Sex and The Body in the 1980s”:

Culled entirely from LACMA’s permanent collection, this installation explores how the body was at the center of creative consciousness in the 1980s. During that decade, artists engaged the language of advertising and media, feminist and identity politics, and as the decade wore on, an increasingly urgent response to the AIDS crisis, to produce work that commented on the power and the fragility of the human body.

Organized as a companion to the exhibition “Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium,” this installation places Mapplethorpe’s art in dialogue with a selection of work by other artists made during his decade of greatest productivity. Many of the featured artists were friends or acquaintances of Mapplethorpe, and like him, they placed issues of the body and sexuality at the center of their practice.

Nancy Burson’s work will be on view alongside artworks by Nan Goldin, Sherrie Levine, Sarah Charlesworth, Marina Abramović, Tina Barney, Andres Serrano, Peter Hujar, and Kiki Smith.

“Physical: Sex and The Body in the 1980s”
March 20, 2016 – July 31, 2016

BCAM, Level 2
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(323)857-6000

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See Nancy Burson’s Early Work (1976-1996)
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Blog post by:
Raechel McCarthy, Associate Director