The RIDDLE Effect
On view through September 8, 2019
Craft Contemporary
Los Angeles, California
www.cafam.org
“The RIDDLE Effect” examines the work of influential Los Angeles artist, curator, and teacher John T. Riddle, Jr. (1933-2002) within the context of his contemporaries and students. Riddle is known for chronicling the history, struggles, and triumphs of black Americans through figurative paintings and prints, small and large-scale abstract ceramic sculptures, and assemblage and iron works made from found objects collected after the 1965 Watts Rebellion.
The first major exhibition of Riddle’s work in Los Angeles in almost two decades, “The RIDDLE Effect” includes some of the artist’s most powerful pieces, many on view publicly for the first time, alongside works by his students and colleagues including Dan Concholar, Dale Davis, John Outterbridge, Mark Steven Greenfield, Noah Purifoy, Joe Sims, and Charles Dickson. Featuring 20 of his ceramic, mixed media sculptures and assemblages, the exhibition is guest curated by jill moniz.
Image: John Riddle, Untitled, ca. 1970s, welded metals, 7 x 4 feet. Collection of Bill and June Pajaud. Photo: Melanie Aron.
