LOS ANGELES—With the conclusion of Tim Hawkinson's exhibition at the Whitney in New York, the premiere stop of his first major career exhibition at the age of 45 comes part two, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

The Chicago Tribune reviews the show, noting that the artist "really is different" and also that he "is really different," explaining later that "one of the things that makes him so different is that his works differ so from one another."

"The peculiarity and eccentricity of his work is legendary," Lawrence Rinder, the exhibition's curator, told the Tribune. "His work does not rest comfortably within a single medium but skips erratically among drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, video and sound."

"One begins looking upon it," writes Michael Kilian it being Hawkinson's 51-by-420 panel filled with an "endlessly coiled and compressed undulating intestine" "with the thought, "Why not?" and concludes thinking, "Why, exactly so!"

That piece, and ink and colored pencil drawing from 1997, is called Wall Chart of World History From Earliest Times to the Present.

According to Rinder, while his "unpredictability and inventiveness" are what have been delighting people for the past two decades, "these characteristics have also made him hard to pin down and endowed him with an almost outsider status."


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All Images Courtesy of The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. All Photographs courtesy Ace Gallery. Images (top to bottom): Andrea Nasher Collection (2); Ace Gallery (2); Collection of Dean Valentine and Amy Adelson; Collection of Kristin Dornig and Tony Krantz; Collection of Joel and Judy Slutzky.