Installation view, Richard Jackson, The Little Girl's Room, September 10 – October 19, 2011, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

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Richard Jackson: Ain't Painting a Pain
The Orange County Museum of Art
February 17 – May 5, 2013

The Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) presents one of the most ambitious exhibitions ever organized by the museum. Richard Jackson: Ain't Painting a Pain is the first retrospective devoted to one of the most radical artists of the last 40 years. Jackson (b. 1939 in Sacramento, CA) has expanded the possibilities of painting more than any other contemporary figure and his wildly inventive, exuberant, and irreverent take on "action" painting has dramatically extended its performative and spatial dimensions, merged it with sculpture, and repositioned it as an art of everyday experience rather than one of heroic myth. The only American presentation of Ain't Painting a Pain is on view in Newport Beach from February 17 through May 5, 2013. The exhibition then travels to the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich, Germany and to the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art (S.M.A.K) in Ghent, Belgium.

A 304-page, full-color catalogue with texts by Dennis Szakacs, John C. Welchman, Michael Darling, Jeffrey Weiss, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Philippe Van Cauteren will ac