William Leavitt was the subject of a retrospective curated by Anne Goldstein and Bennett Simpson at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 2011. His work is included in numerous private and public collections including the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Orange County Museum of Art; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art; and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. He has been the recipient of an NEA Fellowship, J. Paul Getty Fellowship, J. Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and a United States Artist Fellowship.
Artist and curator William Leavitt speaks about the exhibition Time and Place at Marc Selwyn Fine Art, featuring works by himself and Raul Guerrero.
A review by Jody Zellen of William Leavitt Gothic Electronica at Marc Selwyn Fine Art and Sebastian Gladstone.
From William Leavitt's cyborg visions to Uri Aran’s immersive installation, CULTURED highlights the city's best shows this month.
Stromberg writes, "Gothic Electronica is a two-gallery, 50-year survey of the work of William Leavitt, whose multi-media practice draws from Hollywood, film, mass media, and the landscape of Southern California. Narrative is a running theme in his work, which often blurs the line between theater and fine art. His early photo montages of the 1970s recall film stills, and his installations incorporating light and sound resemble stage sets, notably “Gothic Curtain” (1970/2008), which conjures the unsettling tone of the 1958 British film Dracula. More recent work includes paintings rife with robots, cyborgs, and other man-machine mashups, mixing mid-century space-age futurism with contemporary notions of technological hybridity."
