Multiple locations across LA
The first of a two-part exhibition, In Context: Mark Lere’s “Halo/Wheel” featured sculptural fragments installed at six parks, five street locations, and one part of the LA River. The show was commissioned for both the LA Summer Olympic Arts Festival and MOCA’s ongoing exhibition series, In Context (1984–1985). Starting from the original location of the Pueblo de Los Ángeles—the 1781-founded Spanish settlement that would become modern LA—Lere positioned the hand-made, roughly geometric fragments of Halo/Wheel on imagined, radiating concentric circles across the city.
The second part of the exhibition, Mark Lere: New and Selected Work, showed from February 13 to May 26, 1985, at MOCA’s Temporary Contemporary (the original name for The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA).
In Context (1984–1985) was a series of exhibitions that commissioned artists to develop critical spatial interventions in creative or unusual sites.
In Context: Mark Lere’s “Halo/Wheel” was organized by Julia Brown, Curator, with Kerry Brougher, Assistant Curator, and Connie Butler, Intern, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.