Sea View

About the Gallery
Sea View is a contemporary art gallery founded by Sara Lee Hantman at the top of the historic Mount Washington neighborhood in Los Angeles.

Built by Jorge Pardo as a “social sculpture” in the late nineties, the concept space originally functioned as the artist’s home studio as well as an offsite exhibition on view for five weeks by MOCA in 1998.

Twenty five years later, Sea View picks up where this interdisciplinary, artist-first endeavor left off – inviting guests to explore a similar juncture where art, design, and architecture meet. Named after its wide hilltop street and sloped vantage, where one can see as far back as the Pacific Ocean on a clear day, the gallery is dedicated to fostering a transhistorical dialogue between artists and designers within an intimate context.

About the Presentation
At Independent 20th Century, Sea View presents the first survey of Bruce Richards' work across the 1980s and 1990s, during major life events—such as getting married, moving to New York, and living through the AIDS crisis. In the words of Richards, “All of my work is a journal entry, and I don’t write well, so I paint.” Choosing symbols such as the courtship letters, rings of fire, and ancient archetypes, Richards offers a personal commentary on the unresolved and cyclical challenges of life, art and love.