Eden Orelove and Stephanie Ashley
Scope and Contents
The records of Los Angeles gallery Art Space measure 9.9 linear feet and date from 1964-1993. The collection documents the gallery's history and exhibition schedule throughout its operation from 1977-1991, primarily through artist and exhibition files for solo and group exhibitions. Records include artist biographical material and statements, correspondence, loan and price lists, invoices, and printed and photographic material. Also found are correspondence files of artist inquiries and correspondence with other galleries and organizations, gallery financial and administrative records, slides of artwork, and scattered slides of exhibitions at Art Space and elsewhere.
Correspondence with artists consists primarily of artist inquiries about showing work at Art Space and the gallery's responses. Correspondence with other galleries and organizations includes records documenting Adelman's involvement in collaborative exhibitions and events, including with the 18th Street Gallery, the Constitutional Rights Foundation, Texas Commerce Bank, Venice Family Clinic and the Venice Art Walk, and The Works Gallery.
Artist and exhibition files form the bulk of the collection and include records for individual artists such as correspondence, resumes,and printed material documenting artists' exhibitions and activities outside of Art Space, as well as exhibition files for their solo exhibitions at Art Space. Additonal exhibition files for two-person and group shows held at Art Space may include correspondence, artist resumes and statements, exhibition announcements and programs, price lists, sales records, loan agreements, and photographs and slides of artwork and exhibitions. Particularly rich files exist for artists Marta Chaffee, David Hines, Walter Gabrielson, Janice Lowry, Lorraine Lubner, Robert Lubner, Kent Rush, Mary Schairer, Marg Starbuck, Robert Tomlinson, and Clark Walding.
Scattered financial and administrative files document some of the gallery's business dealings and history and include a statement of purpose and a complete chronological list of exhibitions held at Art Space, price lists, forms and legal records, an inventory, and financial statements.
The collection includes a substantial number of slides primarily of artwork by individual arists as well as scattered images of exhibitions and installations at Art Space and elsewhere. Artists Shigeo Miura and Tracy Colvill have particularly sizeable slide files. Most of the artists with slides are also represented in the exhibition files.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The records were donated in 1992 by Lucy Adelman, the director of Art Space.
Funding
Sponsor
Funding for the initial processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund. The digitization of this collection received Federal support from the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum.
Processing Information
The collection was processed to a minimal level and a finding aid prepared by Eden Orelove in 2016, with funding provided by the Smithsonian's Collection Care Pool.
The collection was further processed and prepared for digitization by Stephanie Ashley in 2024 and was digitized in 2024 with Federal support from the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum.