DON BACHARDY AT CRAIG KRULL : PORTRAITS OF L.A. ARTISTS: PACIFIC STANDARD TIME
Filmmaker Eric Minh Swenson talks to Craig Krull on his current Don Bachardy exhibition. For further information on Eric's work please visit his website at www.thuvanarts.com/take1
Music by Big Swede and Haakon Graf.
Don Bachardy was born in Los Angeles in 1934. He Studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles and the Slade School of Art in London. His first one-man exhibition was held in October 1961 at the Redfern Gallery in London. He has since had many one-man exhibitions in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Houston and New York.
More recently, he had an exhibition at the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA 2004-2005. His works reside in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the M.H. de Young Museum of Art in San Francisco, the University of Texas, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California, the University of California, Los Angeles, the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, Princeton University, the California State Capitol Building (official portrait of Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr), the Smithsonian Institute, and the National Portrait Gallery in London, England. Six books of his work have been published: three by Twelvetrees press (October ( in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood), 1980, One Hundred Drawings, 1983 and Drawings of Male Nude, 1985); a collection of seventy drawings of artists, 70 X 1, published by Illuminati, 1983; Last Drawings of Christopher Isherwood, published by Faber and Faber, 1990 (Great Britain), 1991 (U.S.A.); Short Cuts the Screenplay portraits by Don Bachardy, published by Capra Press, 1993. The seventh Stars in My Eyes, published by the University of Wisconsin Press in November 2000.
Don Bachardy has had two solo shows at Craig Krull Gallery so far, one in 2008 comprised of abstract paintings and acrylic portraits, and one in 2010 which chronicled 50 years of his self-portraiture.
In September of 2011 Bachardy opened an exhibition at Craig Krull Gallery of portraits made over the last 40 years depicting acclaimed artists from Southern California, including Peter Alexander, Lita Albuquerque, Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, Robert Irwin, Ed Moses, and Ed Ruscha.
