Grapefruit

Conceptual Art in the BAM Collections

The works in Grapefruit are drawn from the museum's expanding Conceptual Art Study Center collection. Established in 1992 with a major gift from the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Memorial Foundation, the study center has grown to include several special collections.

The watercolor paintings by Geoffrey Hendricks on view are part of the Alice Hutchins Fluxus Collection donated to the Berkeley Art Museum in 1994. Fluxus was an experimental art movement of the 1960s and seventies that blended the visual arts with music and literature, and that took root in the United States, Europe, and Japan. The edition of Grapefruit from which the current exhibition's instruction pieces were selected was donated to BAM by the museum's former director Jacquelynn Baas.