One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art

One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art, is an ambitious exhibition inspired by American painter and film critic Manny Farber and his legendary underground essay “White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art” (1962). The exhibition is organized by Helen Molesworth and features approximately thirty artists and more than one hundred carefully selected works of painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, and sound dating from the 1950s to the present. One Day at a Time is conceived as a cross between a monographic exhibition and a group show—an experiment in exhibition-making in the spirit of Farber’s call for “termite art.” One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art, will be on view until March 11, 2019 at the MOCA Grand.


"summer still life", 1995
summer still life

Wolfgang Tillmans
Courtesy of the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles

1995

"Cézanne avait écrit", 1986
Cézanne avait écrit

Manny Farber
Oil on board
72 × 72 inches
Courtesy of Quint Gallery, San Diego

1986

"Mary at the Stove", 1993
Mary at the Stove

Patricia Patterson
Casein on plaster
95 1/2 × 72 1/2 inches
Courtesy of Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla

1993

"Memorial", 2017
Memorial

Jordan Casteel
Oil on canvas
72 × 56 inches
Courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, promised gift of Arthur Lewis and Hau Nguyen

2017